Karunagappally Assembly constituency

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Karunagappally
Constituency No. 116 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
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Karunagappally town in Karunagappally Assembly constituency
Constituency details
Country India
Region South India
State Kerala
District Kollam
Lok Sabha constituency Alappuzha
Established1957
Total electors2,13,993 (2021)
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party Indian National Congress hand logo.svg INC
Alliance   UDF
Elected year 2021

Karunagappally State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency. [1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is C. R. Mahesh of Indian National Congress.

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Structure

Karunagappally Assembly constituency was formed in 1951. As per the recent changes on Assembly constituency delimitations, the Assembly constituency consists of Karunagappally municipality and six panchayaths from Karunagappally taluk including Alappad, Clappana, Kulasekharapuram, Oachira, Thazhava and Thodiyoor. [2]

Major institutions in the constituency

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented the constituency:

ElectionNiyama

Sabha

NamePartyTenure
1957 1st P. Kunjukrishnan Indian National Congress 1957 – 1960
1960 2nd Baby John Independent 1960 – 1965
1967 3rd1967 – 1970
1970 4th Revolutionary Socialist Party 1970 – 1977
1977 5thB. M. Sheriff Communist Party of India 1977 – 1980
1980 6th1980 – 1982
1982 7th T. V. Vijayarajan Independent 1982 – 1987
1987 8th P. S. Sreenivasan Communist Party of India 1987 – 1991
1991 9th1991 – 1996
1996 10th E. Chandrasekharan Nair 1996 – 2001
2001 11th A. N. Rajan Babu Janathipathiya Samrakshana Samithy 2001 – 2006
2006 12th C. Divakaran Communist Party of India 2006 – 2011
2011 13th2011 – 2016
2016 14th R. Ramachandran Communist Party of India 2016 - 2021
2021 15thC. R. Mahesh Indian National Congress Incumbent

Election results

Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.

2021

There were 2,13,993 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Karunagappally
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC C. R .Mahesh 94,225 54.38 Increase2.svg12.41
CPI R. Ramachandran65,01737.52Decrease2.svg5.54
BJP Bitty Sudheer12,1447.01
NOTA None of the above4500.26
Margin of victory29,20816.68Increase2.svg15.59
Turnout 1,73,28480.97Increase2.svg1.60
INC gain from CPI Swing

2016

There were 2,04,539 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election. [3]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Karunagappally
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CPI R. Ramachandran69,90243.06Decrease2.svg7.07
INC C. R. Mahesh68,14341.97Increase2.svg2.38
BDJS V. Sadasivan19,11511.77
SDPI A. K. Salahudeen1,7371.07Decrease2.svg4.48
PDP Mylakkadu Shah1,6201.00−
BSP Gopalakrishnan6490.40
Independent Ramachandran5940.37
NOTA None of the above5900.36
Margin of victory1,7591.09Decrease2.svg9.45
Turnout 1,62,35179.37Increase2.svg3.86
CPI hold Swing Decrease2.svg7.07

2011

There were 1,82,508 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election. [4]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Karunagappally
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CPI C. Divakaran69,08650.13
JSS A. N. Rajanbabu54,56439.59
SDPI Nazarudeen Elamaram7,6455.55
BJP Malumel Sumesh5,0973.70
Independent P. D. Sudheer8680.63−
SUCI(C) Twinkle Prabhakaran5470.40
Margin of victory14,52210.54
Turnout 1,37,80775.51
CPI hold Swing

References

  1. ↑ "State Assembly Constituencies in Kollam district, Kerala". kollam.gov.in.
  2. ↑ "ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES AND THEIR EXTENT - Kerala" (PDF). Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  3. ↑ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
  4. ↑ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
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