Varkala | |
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Constituency No. 127 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | South India |
State | Kerala |
District | Thiruvananthapuram |
LS constituency | Attingal |
Established | 1957 |
Total electors | 1,87,646 (2021) |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent | |
Party | CPI(M) |
Alliance | LDF |
Elected year | 2021 |
Varkala State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies at the state Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Attingal Lok Sabha constituency. [1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is V. Joy of CPI(M).
Varkala Niyamasabha constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments: [2]
Sl no. | Name | Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality) | Taluk |
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1 | Varkala | Municipality | Varkala |
2 | Chemmaruthy | Grama panchayat | Varkala |
3 | Edava | Grama panchayat | Varkala |
4 | Elakamon | Grama panchayat | Varkala |
5 | Madavoor | Grama panchayat | Varkala |
6 | Navaikulam | Grama panchayat | Varkala |
7 | Pallickal | Grama panchayat | Varkala |
8 | Vettoor | Grama panchayat | Varkala |
The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:
Key
Election | Niyama Sabha | Member | Party | Tenure | |
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1957 | 1st | T. Abdul Majeed | CPI | 1957 – 1960 | |
K. Sivadasan | |||||
1960 | 2nd | Balakrishnan | 1960 – 1965 | ||
Shamsuddin | INC | ||||
1967 | 3rd | T. Abdul Majeed | CPI | 1967 – 1970 | |
1970 | 4th | 1970 – 1977 | |||
1977 | 5th | 1977 – 1980 | |||
1980 | 6th | Varkala Radhakrishnan | CPI(M) | 1980 – 1982 | |
1982 | 7th | 1982 – 1987 | |||
1987 | 8th | 1987 – 1991 | |||
1991 | 9th | 1991 – 1996 | |||
1996 | 10th | A. Ali Hassan | 1996 – 2001 | ||
2001 | 11th | Varkala Kahar | INC | 2001 – 2006 | |
2006 | 12th | 2006 – 2011 | |||
2011 | 13th | 2011 – 2016 | |||
2016 | 14th | V. Joy | CPI(M) | 2016 - 2021 | |
2021 | 15th | Incumbent |
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
There were 1,87,646 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 election. [3] [4]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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CPI(M) | V. Joy | 68,816 | 50.89 | 9.46 | |
INC | Adv. BRM Shafeer | 50,995 | 37.71 | 1.86 | |
BDJS | Aji S | 11,214 | 8.29 | 7.21 | |
BSP | Anu M.C | 1,948 | 1.44 | 0.03 | |
NOTA | None of the above | 815 | 0.6 | 0.11 | |
Independent | Prince | 658 | 0.49 | ||
Democratic Human Rights Movement Party | Anilkumar P | 460 | 0.34 | ||
Independent | Shefeer | 323 | 0.24 | ||
Margin of victory | 17,821 | 13.18 | 11.32 | ||
Turnout | 1,35,229 | 72.06 | 0.52 | ||
CPI(M) hold | Swing | 9.46 |
There were 1,79,160 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election. [5]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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CPI(M) | V. Joy | 53,102 | 41.43 | 1.25 | |
INC | Varkala Kahar | 50,716 | 39.57 | 12.83 | |
BDJS | Aji S. R. M. | 19,872 | 15.50 | ||
BSP | Varkala P. Linees | 1,888 | 1.47 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 628 | 0.49 | ||
SDPI | Abdul Salam | 466 | 0.36 | 0.36 | |
Independent | Sunil Kumar S. | 357 | 0.28 | ||
Independent | Sudevan | 351 | 0.27 | ||
PDP | Nadayara Jabbar | 297 | 0.23 | ||
Independent | Bhasidharan Nair | 138 | 0.11 | ||
Independent | Salu R. | 135 | 0.11 | ||
Independent | Varkala Sabesan | 126 | 0.10 | ||
Independent | Vivekanandan | 101 | 0.08 | ||
Margin of victory | 2,386 | 1.86 | |||
Turnout | 1,28,177 | 71.54 | 1.01 | ||
CPI(M) gain from INC | Swing |
There were 1,51,930 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election. [6]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | Varkala Kahar | 57,775 | 52.40 | ||
CPI(M) | A. A. Rahim | 47,045 | 42.68 | ||
BJP | Elakaman Satheesan | 3,430 | 3.11 | ||
Independent | Cherunniyoor Ganesh | 927 | 0.84 | ||
SDPI | Kunnil Shahjahan | 795 | 0.72 | ||
Independent | Aneesh Kumar | 275 | 0.25 | ||
Margin of victory | 10,710 | 9.72 | |||
Turnout | 1,10,227 | 72.55 | |||
INC hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | Varkala Kahar | 44,883 | 48.78 | ||
CPI(M) | S Sundaresan | 43,258 | 47.01 | ||
Margin of victory | 1,625 | 1.77 | |||
Turnout | 92,002 | ||||
INC hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | Varkala Kahar | 45,315 | 48.90 | ||
CPI(M) | P K Gurudasan | 43,327 | 46.75 | ||
Margin of victory | 1,988 | 2.15 | |||
Turnout | 92,678 | 66.94 | |||
INC gain from CPI(M) | Swing |
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