Karunagappally Assembly constituency

Karunagappally
Karunagappally
Constituency No. 116 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	The Karunagappally town in the Karunagappally (State Assembly constituency).
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kollam
LS constituency	Alappuzha
Established	1957
Total electors	2,13,993 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent C. R. Mahesh
Party	INC
Alliance	UDF
Elected year	2021

Last updated February 08, 2024

Karunagappally State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is C. R. Mahesh of Indian National Congress.

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 6 panchayaths from Karunagappally Taluk including Alappad, Clappana, Kulasekharapuram, Oachira, Thazhava and Thodiyoor.^[2]

Major institutions in the constituency

Municipality: 1 Karunagappally
Panchayaths: 6 (Alappad, Clappana, Kulasekharapuram, Oachira, Thazhava and Thodiyoor)
Railway Stations: 2 (Karunagappalli, Oachira)
Government Hospitals: 4 (Chest Disease Hospital(TB) in Karunagappally, Govt. Taluk Hospital in Karunagappally, Community Health Center in Mynagapally, Community Health Center in Ochira)

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:

Key

INC Independent CPI JSS RSP

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party	Tenure
1957	1st	P. Kunjukrishnan	INC	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd	Baby John	IND	1960 – 1965
1967	3rd		IND	1967 – 1970
1970	4th		RSP	1970 – 1977
1977	5th	B. M. Sheriff	CPI	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	B. M. Sheriff	CPI	1980 – 1982
1982	7th	T. V. Vijayarajan	IND	1982 – 1987
1987	8th	P. S. Sreenivasan	CPI	1987 – 1991
1991	9th	P. S. Sreenivasan	CPI	1991 – 1996
1996	10th	E. Chandrasekharan Nair	CPI	1996 – 2001
2001	11th	A. N. Rajan Babu	JSS	2001 – 2006
2006	12th	C. Divakaran	CPI	2006 – 2011
2011	13th	C. Divakaran	CPI	2011 – 2016
2016	14th	R. Ramachandran	CPI	2016 - 2021
2021	15th	C. R. Mahesh	INC	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 Niyamasabha Election

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Karunagappally
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	C. R .Mahesh	94,225	54.38	12.41
	CPI	R. Ramachandran	65,017	37.52	5.54
	BJP	Bitty Sudheer	12,144	7.01
	NOTA	None of the above	450	0.26
Margin of victory			29,208	16.68	15.59
Turnout			1,73,284	80.97	1.60
	INC gain from CPI		Swing

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 2,04,539 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.^[3]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Karunagappally
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	R. Ramachandran	69,902	43.06	7.07
	INC	C. R. Mahesh	68,143	41.97	2.38
	BDJS	V. Sadasivan	19,115	11.77
	SDPI	A. K. Salahudeen	1,737	1.07	4.48
	PDP	Mylakkadu Shah	1,620	1.00	-
	BSP	Gopalakrishnan	649	0.40
	Independent	Ramachandran	594	0.37
	NOTA	None of the above	590	0.36
Margin of victory			1,759	1.09	9.45
Turnout			1,62,351	79.37	3.86
	CPI hold		Swing	7.07

Niyamasabha Election 2011

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

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Karunagappally
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	C. Divakaran	69,086	50.13
	JSS	A. N. Rajanbabu	54,564	39.59
	SDPI	Nazarudeen Elamaram	7,645	5.55
	BJP	Malumel Sumesh	5,097	3.70
	Independent	P. D. Sudheer	868	0.63	-
	SUCI(C)	Twinkle Prabhakaran	547	0.40
Margin of victory			14,522	10.54
Turnout			1,37,807	75.51
	CPI hold		Swing

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References

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

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[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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