Piravom | |
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Constituency No. 85 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
![]() Piravom Bridge in Piravom Assembly constituency | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | South India |
State | Kerala |
District | Ernakulam |
Established | 1957 |
Total electors | 2,00,003 (2016) |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent | |
Party | KC(J) |
Alliance | UDF |
Elected year | 2016 |
Piravom 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 Kottayam Lok Sabha constituency. [1] As of the 2016 Assembly elections, the current MLA is Anoop Jacob of KC(J).
Piravom Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments: [2]
Sl no. | Name | Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality) | Taluk |
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1 | Elanji | Grama panchayat | Muvattupuzha |
2 | Maneed | Grama panchayat | Muvattupuzha |
3 | Pampakuda | Grama panchayat | Muvattupuzha |
4 | Ramamangalam | Grama panchayat | Muvattupuzha |
5 | Thirumarady | Grama panchayat | Muvattupuzha |
6 | Amballur | Grama panchayat | Kanayannur |
7 | Edakkattuvayal | Grama panchayat | Kanayannur |
8 | Chottanikkara | Grama panchayat | Kanayannur |
9 | Mulanthuruthy | Grama panchayat | Kanayannur |
10 | Thiruvankulam region of Thrippunithura | Municipality | Kanayannur |
11 | Piravom | Municipality | Muvattupuzha |
12 | Koothattukulam | Municipality | Muvattupuzha |
The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented the constituency:
Election | Niyama Sabha | Name | Party | Tenure | |
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1977 | 5th | T. M. Jacob | Kerala Congress | 1977 – 1980 | |
1980 | 6th | P. C. Chacko | Indian National Congress | 1980 – 1982 | |
1982 | 7th | Benny Behanan | Independent | 1982 – 1987 | |
1987 | 8th | Gopi Kottaramunikkal | Communist Party of India | 1987 – 1991 | |
1991 | 9th | T. M. Jacob | Kerala Congress | 1991 – 1996 | |
1996 | 10th | Kerala Congress | 1996 – 2001 | ||
2001 | 11th | 2001 – 2006 | |||
2006 | 12th | M. J. Jacob | Communist Party of India | 2006 – 2011 | |
2011 | 13th | T. M. Jacob | Kerala Congress | 2011 – 2012 | |
2012* | 13th | Anoop Jacob | 2012 – 2016 | ||
2016 | 14th | 2016 - 2021 | |||
2021 | 15th | Incumbent |
*by-election
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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KC(J) | Anoop Jacob | 85,056 | 53.8 | ![]() | |
KC(M) | Sindhumol Jacob | 59,692 | 37.76 | ||
BJP | N. Ashish | 11,021 | 6.97 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 1109 | 0.7 | ||
Majority | 25,364 | 16.04 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 1,58,097 | 74.62 | ![]() | ||
Registered electors | 2,11,861 | ||||
KC(J) hold | Swing |
There were 1,81,261 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election. [3]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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KC(J) | Anoop Jacob | 73,770 | 45.77 | ![]() | |
CPI(M) | M. J .Jacob | 67,575 | 41.93 | ![]() | |
BDJS | C. P. Sathyan | 17,503 | 10.86 | − | |
NOTA | None of the above | 964 | 0.60 | − | |
PpGP | Gireesh | 485 | 0.30 | − | |
SUCI(C) | K. O. Sudheer | 342 | 0.21 | − | |
Independent | Anoop | 298 | 0.18 | − | |
Independent | Rajan | 233 | 0.14 | − | |
Margin of victory | 6,195 | 3.84 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 1,61,770 | 80.58 | ![]() | ||
KC(J) hold | Swing | ![]() |
A by-election was held in Piravom Assembly constituency following the death of the sitting MLA and minister T. M. Jacob on 30 October 2011. [4] [5] [6] [7] There were 1,81,556 registered voters in the constituency for the resulting by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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KC(J) | Anoop Jacob | 82,756 | 52.81 | ![]() | |
CPI(M) | M. J. Jacob | 70,686 | 45.11 | ![]() | |
BJP | K. R. Rajagopal | 3,241 | 2.07 | ![]() | |
Margin of victory | 12,071 | 7.70 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 1,56,683 | 86.30 | ![]() | ||
KC(J) hold | Swing | ![]() |
There were 1,59,877 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election. [8]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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KC(J) | T. M. Jacob | 66,503 | 47.53 | ||
CPI(M) | M. J. Jacob | 66,346 | 47.41 | ||
BJP | M. N. Madhu | 4,234 | 3.03 | − | |
Independent | Sau Kunjappan | 958 | 0.65 | − | |
SUCI(C) | M. K. Usha | 908 | 0.65 | − | |
Margin of victory | 157 | 0.12 | |||
Turnout | 1,39,928 | 79.37 | |||
KC(J) hold | Swing |