Alappuzha Assembly constituency

Alappuzha
Alappuzha
Constituency No. 104 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Alappuzha Bypass
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Alappuzha
LS constituency	Alappuzha
Established	1957 - present
Total electors	1,93,532 (2016)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent P. P Chitharenjan
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Alappuzha 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 Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] The current MLA is P. P Chitharenjan of CPI(M).

Local self governed segments

Alappuzha Niyamasabha constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments:^[2]

Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
Parts of Alappuzha	Municipality	Ambalappuzha
Aryad	Grama panchayat	Ambalappuzha
Mannancherry	Grama panchayat	Ambalappuzha
Mararikulam North	Grama panchayat	Cherthala
Mararikulam South	Grama panchayat	Ambalappuzha

Members of Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member		Tenure
1957	1st	T. V. Thomas	CPI	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd	A. Nafeesath Beevi	INC	1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	T. V. Thomas	CPI	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	T. V. Thomas		1970 – 1977
1977	5th	P. K. Vasudevan Nair		1977 – 1980
1980	6th	P. K. Vasudevan Nair		1980 – 1982
1982	7th	K. P. Ramachandran Nair	NDP	1982 – 1987
1987	8th	Rosamma Punnose	CPI	1987 – 1991
1991	9th	Vijayamma. S	INC	1991 – 1996
1996	10th	K. C. Venugopal		1996 – 2001
2001	11th			2001 – 2006
2006	12th			2006 – 2009
2009*	12th	A. A. Shukoor		2009 – 2011
2011	13th	T. M. Thomas Isaac	CPI(M)	2011 – 2016
2016	14th	T. M. Thomas Isaac		2016 - 2021
2021	15th	P. P. Chitharanjan		Incumbent

* Indicates Bypoll

Election results

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

2021

There were 1,54,149 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Alappuzha
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	P. P. Chitharanjan	73,412	46.33	6.96
	INC	K. S. Manoj	61,768	38.98	5.56
	BJP	Sandeep Vachaspati	21,650	13.66	3.00
	NOTA	NOTA	1,089	0.69
Margin of victory			11,644	7.35	0.95
Turnout			1,58,446	-	−
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	6.96

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 1,41,243 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.^[3]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Alappuzha
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	T. M. Thomas Isaac	83,211	53.29	0.42
	INC	Laly Vincent	52,179	33.42	8.72
	BJP	Ranjith Sreenivas	18,214	11.66	9.15
	NOTA	None of the above	856	0.55	−
	SDPI	P. A. Sulaiman	703	0.45	0.37
	PDP	K. Mujeeb	481	0.31	−
	SUCI(C)	K. A. Vinod	244	0.16
	Independent	Premji K. P.	149	0.10
	Independent	Prasanth	113	0.07
Margin of victory			31,032	19.87	8.30
Turnout			1,56,150	80.68	0.52
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	0.42

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,93,532 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[4]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Alappuzha
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Vijayamma. S	75,008	53.71
	CPI(M)	T. M. Thomas Issac	59,515	42.14	−
	BJP	Kottaram Unnikrishnan	3,450	2.51	−
	SDPI	T. M. Samad	1,158	0.82
	Independent	Sebastian	646	0.46
	BSP	C. P. Thilakan	527	0.37
Margin of victory			16,342	11.57
Turnout			1,41,243	81.20
	CPI(M) gain from		Swing

References

^ "State Assembly Constituencies in Alappuzha district, Kerala". alappuzha.nic.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
^ "Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Alappuzha District". www.ceo.kerala.gov.in.
^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.

9°31′N 76°20′E / 9.51°N 76.34°E / 9.51; 76.34

[1] "State Assembly Constituencies in Alappuzha district, Kerala". alappuzha.nic.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.

[2] "Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Alappuzha 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.

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