Vaikom Assembly constituency

Vaikom
Constituency No. 95 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Vembanad Lake at Vaikom
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kottayam
Established	1957
Total electors	1,64,469 (2021)
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent C. K. Asha
Party	CPI
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2016

Vaikom 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 of this constituency is C. K. Asha of CPI.

Local self-governed segments

Vaikom Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments: ^[2]

Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Vaikom	Municipality	Vaikom
2	Chempu	Grama panchayat	Vaikom
3	Kallara	Grama panchayat	Vaikom
4	Maravanthuruthu	Grama panchayat	Vaikom
5	T. V. Puram	Grama panchayat	Vaikom
6	Thalayazham	Grama panchayat	Vaikom
7	Thalayolaparambu	Grama panchayat	Vaikom
8	Udayanapuram	Grama panchayat	Vaikom
9	Vechoor	Grama panchayat	Vaikom
10	Velloor	Grama panchayat	Vaikom

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Key

  CPI   INC

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1957	1st	K. R. Narayanan	INC		1957 – 1960
1960	2nd	P. S. Sreenivasan	CPI		1960 – 1965
1967	3rd				1967 – 1970
1970	4th				1970 – 1977
1977	5th	M. K. Keshavan			1977 – 1980
1980	6th				1980 – 1982
1982	7th				1982 – 1987
1987	8th	P. K. Raghavan			1987 – 1991
1991	9th	K. K. Balakrishnan	INC		1991 – 1996
1996	10th	M. K. Keshavan	CPI		1996 – 1998
1998*	10th	P. Narayanan			1998 – 2001
2001	11th				2001 – 2006
2006	12th	K. Ajith			2006 – 2011
2011	13th				2011 – 2016
2016	14th	C. K. Asha			2016 – 2021
2021	15th				Incumbent

Election results

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

2021

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vaikom

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	C. K. Asha	71,388	55.96	9.01
	INC	P. R. Sona	42,266	33.13	4.8
	BDJS	Ajitha Sabu	11,953	9.37	9.4
Margin of victory			29,122	22.83	4.21
Turnout			1,34,132	82.01	0.80
	CPI hold		Swing	4.67

2016

There were 1,62,632 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election. ^[3]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vaikom

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	C. K. Asha	61,997	46.95	4.67
	INC	A. Saneeshkumar	37,413	28.83	14.08
	BDJS	N. K. Neelakandan	30,087	22.77	−
	NOTA	None of the above	800	0.61	−
	BSP	K. C. Chandrasekharan	540	0.41	0.16
	PDP	Subeesh Surendran	489	0.37	−
	SUCI(C)	Anila Bose	420	0.32	0.02
	CPI(M-L)	K. C. Prakash	204	0.15	−
	Independent	Kuttan Kattachira	118	0.09	−
Margin of victory			24,584	18.62	9.91
Turnout			1,32,048	81.19	2.04
	CPI hold		Swing	4.67

2011

There were 1,53,205 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election. ^[4]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vaikom

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	K. Ajith	62,603	51.62
	INC	A. Saneeshkumar	52,035	42.91	−
	BJP	Ramesh Kavimattam	4,512	3.72	−
	Independent	K. Sanesh	691	0.57	−
	BSP	P. K. Prakashan	645	0.53
	SUCI(C)	K .S. Sasikala	412	0.34	−
	Independent	M. K. Dasan	367	0.30
Margin of victory			10,568	8.71
Turnout			1,21,265	79.15
	CPI hold		Swing

See also

• Vaikom
• Kottayam district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election

References

1. "State Assembly Constituencies in Kottayam district". kottayam.nic.in. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
2. "Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Kottayam District". www.ceo.kerala.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.