Kottarakkara | |
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Constituency No. 119 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | South India |
State | Kerala |
District | Kollam |
Established | 1957–present |
Total electors | 2,00,586 (2016) |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent | |
Party | CPI(M) |
Alliance | LDF |
Elected year | 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election |
Kottarakara or Kottarakkara is a legislative assembly constituency in Kollam district of Kerala, India. It is one among the 11 assembly constituencies in Kollam district. As of the 2016 assembly elections, the current MLA is K N Balagopal of CPI(M). [1]
As per the recent changes on assembly constituency delimitations, the Kottarakara assembly constituency consists of the municipality of Kottarakkara and 7 neighbouring panchayaths including Ezhukone, Kareepra, Kulakkada, Mylom, Neduvathoor, veliyam and Ummannoor. [2] [3]
Year | Winner | Party | Vote Margin | Coalition |
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1951 | Krishnan Nair | Socialist | 3,526 | NA [4] |
1954 | B. B. Pandarathil | RSP | 6,586 | LDF [5] |
The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:
Election | Niyama Sabha | Member | Party | Tenure | |
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1957 | 1st | E. Chandrasekharan Nair | CPI | 1957–1960 | |
1960 | 2nd | D. Damodaran Potti | PSP | 1960–1965 | |
1967 | 3rd | E. Chandrasekharan Nair | CPI | 1967–1970 | |
1970* | C. Achutha Menon | 1970 | |||
1970 | 4th | Kottara Gopalakrishnan | INC | 1970–1977 | |
1977 | 5th | R. Balakrishna Pillai | KEC | 1977–1980 | |
1980 | 6th | 1980–1982 | |||
1982 | 7th | 1982–1987 | |||
1987 | 8th | 1987–1991 | |||
1991 | 9th | INC | 1991–1996 | ||
1996 | 10th | KC(B) | 1996–2001 | ||
2001 | 11th | 2001–2006 | |||
2006 | 12th | P. Aisha Potty | CPI(M) | 2006–2011 | |
2011 | 13th | 2011–2016 | |||
2016 | 14th | 2016-2021 | |||
2021 | 15th | K. N. Balagopal | Incumbent |
* indicates bypolls
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
There were 2,00,587 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election. [6]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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CPI(M) | K. N. Balagopal | 68,770 | 45.98 | 9.46 | |
INC | R. Resmi | 57,956 | 38.75 | 11.64 | |
BJP | Vayakkal Soman | 21,223 | 14.19 | 1.80 | |
NOTA | None of the above | 574 | 0.38 | ||
Independent | Mathews K. Lukose | 136 | 0.09 | - | |
Independent | Lal Viswan | 103 | 0.07 | ||
Margin of victory | 10,814 | 7.23 | 21.10 | ||
Turnout | 1,49,552 | 74.56 | 0.48 | ||
CPI(M) hold | Swing | 9.46 | |||
There were 2,00,527 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election. [7]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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CPI(M) | P. Aisha Potty | 83,443 | 55.44 | 1.55 | |
INC | Savin Sathyan | 40,811 | 27.11 | ||
BJP | Rajeshwary Rajendran | 24,062 | 15.99 | 11.36 | |
NOTA | None of the above | 742 | 0.49 | ||
Independent | Madhu B. | 491 | 0.33 | - | |
BSP | R. Sukumaran | 386 | 0.26 | 0.40 | |
SHS | Veliyam Shaji | 325 | 0.22 | ||
Independent | Hariprasad | 173 | 0.11 | ||
Independent | Ajaykumar Thankappan | 80 | 0.05 | ||
Margin of victory | 42,632 | 28.33 | 13.35 | ||
Turnout | 1,50,513 | 75.04 | 0.72 | ||
CPI(M) hold | Swing | 1.55 | |||
There were 1,84,97 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election. [8]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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CPI(M) | P. Aisha Potty | 74,069 | 53.89 | ||
KC(B) | N. M. Murali | 53,477 | 38.91 | ||
BJP | Vayakkal Madhu | 6,370 | 4.63 | ||
Independent | Dhaneshlal Panavely | 1,063 | 0.77 | ||
BSP | P. T. Prasanna Kumar | 911 | 0.66 | ||
Independent | S. Solomon | 773 | 0.56 | - | |
Independent | Prakash V. | 454 | 0.33 | ||
Independent | Prakash R. | 320 | 0.23 | ||
Margin of victory | 20,592 | 14.98 | |||
Turnout | 1,37,437 | 74.32 | |||
CPI(M) gain from KC(B) | Swing | ||||
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