Kovalam Assembly constituency

Kovalam
Constituency No. 139 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
Established	1965
Total electors	2,18,656 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent M. Vincent
Party	INC
Alliance	UDF
Elected year	2021

Kovalam 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 Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency. ^[1] As of the 2021 Assembly elections, the current MLA is M. Vincent of INC.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party
1967	J. C. Moraes		Independent
1970	M. Kunjukrishnan Nadar
1977	A. Neelalohitadasan Nadar
1980	M. R. Raghu Chandra Bal		Indian National Congress
1982	N. Shakthan Nadar		Independent
1987	Neelalohithadasan Nadar		Lok Dal
1991			Janata Dal
1996
2001			Janata Dal (Secular)
2006	George Mercier		Indian National Congress
2011	Jameela Prakasham		Janata Dal
2016	M. Vincent		Indian National Congress
2021

Election results

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

2021

There were 2,18,656 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election. ^[2]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kovalam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	M. Vincent	74,868	47.06	7.92
	JD(S)	Neelalohitadasan Nadar	63,306	39.79	2.34
	BJP	Vishupuram Chandrasekharan	18,664	11.73
	NOTA	None of the above	773	0.49
	BSP	K. R. Anish	641	0.40	0.25
	Independent	V. S. Prince	417	0.26
	Independent	Venganoor Asokan	284	0.18
	Independent	R. I. Ajil	147	0.09
Margin of victory			11,562	7.27	5.58
Turnout			1,59,100	72.76	1.47
	INC hold		Swing

2016

There were 2,07,410 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election. ^[3]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kovalam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	M. Vincent	60,268	39.14	2.70
	JD(S)	Jameela Prakasham	57,653	37.45	10.15
	BDJS	Kovalam T. N. Suresh	30,987	20.13
	BSP	K. R. Anish	996	0.65	0.28
	Independent	M. C. Jayalal	933	0.61
	NOTA	None of the above	845	0.55
	Independent	Pramod Kumar	564	0.37
	IGP	Sarasamma T.	558	0.36
Margin of victory			2,615	1.69	4.07
Turnout			1,53,966	74.23	5.15
	INC gain from JD(S)		Swing

2011

There were 1,83,616 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election. ^[4]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kovalam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(S)	Jameela Prakasham	59,510	47.60
	INC	George Mercier	52,305	41.84
	BJP	Venganoor Satheesh	9,127	7.30
	Independent	Thanka Bai T.	1,231	0.98
	SDPI	A. M. Nizam	1,193	0.95
	BSP	Muraleedharan	1,157	0.93
Margin of victory			7,205	5.76
Turnout			1,25,008	68.08
	JD(S) gain from INC		Swing

See also

• Kovalam
• Thiruvananthapuram district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election

References

1. "State Assembly Constituencies in Thiruvananthapuram district". trivandrum.nic.in. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
2. "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2021, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
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.