Kottarakkara
Constituency for the
Pulamon Junction in Kottarakara town
Constituency details
CountryIndia
DistrictKollam
Established1957–present
Total electors2,00,586 (2016)
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyCPI(M)
Alliance  LDF
Elected year2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election

Kottarakara or Kottarakkara is a legislative assembly constituency in Kollam district of Kerala, India. It is one among the 11 assembly constituencies in Kollam district. As of the 2016 assembly elections, the current MLA is K N Balagopal of CPI(M).[1]

Structure

As per the recent changes on assembly constituency delimitations, the Kottarakara assembly constituency consists of the municipality of Kottarakkara and 7 neighbouring panchayaths including Ezhukone, Kareepra, Kulakkada, Mylom, Neduvathoor, veliyam and Ummannoor.[2][3]

Electoral history

Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly Elections

Year Winner Party Vote Margin Coalition
1951 Krishnan Nair Socialist 3,526 NA[4]
1954 B. B. Pandarathil RSP 6,586 LDF[5]

Members of Legislative Assembly

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

Key

  CPI  CPI(M)  INC   KEC  PSP  KC(B)

Election Niyama

Sabha

Member Party Tenure
1957 1st E. Chandrasekharan Nair CPI 1957–1960
1960 2nd D. Damodaran Potti PSP 1960–1965
1967 3rd E. Chandrasekharan Nair CPI 1967–1970
1970* C. Achutha Menon CPI 1970
1970 4th Kottara Gopalakrishnan INC 1970–1977
1977 5th R. Balakrishna Pillai KEC 1977–1980
1980 6th 1980–1982
1982 7th 1982–1987
1987 8th 1987–1991
1991 9th INC 1991–1996
1996 10th KC(B) 1996–2001
2001 11th 2001–2006
2006 12th P. Aisha Potty CPI(M) 2006–2011
2011 13th 2011–2016
2016 14th 2016-2021
2021 15th K. N. Balagopal Incumbent

* indicates bypolls

Election results

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

2021

There were 2,00,587 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[6]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kottarakkara
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) K. N. Balagopal 68,770 45.98 Decrease9.46
INC R. Resmi 57,956 38.75 Increase11.64
BJP Vayakkal Soman 21,223 14.19 Decrease1.80
NOTA None of the above 574 0.38
Independent Mathews K. Lukose 136 0.09 -
Independent Lal Viswan 103 0.07
Margin of victory 10,814 7.23 Decrease21.10
Turnout 1,49,552 74.56 Decrease0.48
CPI(M) hold Swing Decrease9.46

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 2,00,527 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[7]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kottarakkara
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) P. Aisha Potty 83,443 55.44 Increase1.55
INC Savin Sathyan 40,811 27.11
BJP Rajeshwary Rajendran 24,062 15.99 Increase11.36
NOTA None of the above 742 0.49
Independent Madhu B. 491 0.33 -
BSP R. Sukumaran 386 0.26 Decrease0.40
SHS Veliyam Shaji 325 0.22
Independent Hariprasad 173 0.11
Independent Ajaykumar Thankappan 80 0.05
Margin of victory 42,632 28.33 Increase13.35
Turnout 1,50,513 75.04 Increase0.72
CPI(M) hold Swing Increase1.55

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,84,97 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[8]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kottarakkara
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) P. Aisha Potty 74,069 53.89
KC(B) N. M. Murali 53,477 38.91
BJP Vayakkal Madhu 6,370 4.63
Independent Dhaneshlal Panavely 1,063 0.77
BSP P. T. Prasanna Kumar 911 0.66
Independent S. Solomon 773 0.56 -
Independent Prakash V. 454 0.33
Independent Prakash R. 320 0.23
Margin of victory 20,592 14.98
Turnout 1,37,437 74.32
CPI(M) gain from KC(B) Swing

References

  1. "CONSTITUENCIES IN KERALA". Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  2. "ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES AND THEIR EXTENT – Kerala" (PDF). Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  3. "Constituencies – Kollam District". Chief Electoral Officer – Kerala. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  4. "Election to the Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly-1951 and to the Madras Assembly Constituencies in the Malabar Area". Government of Kerala. p. 37. Archived from the original on 21 October 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  5. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1954 to the Legislative Assembly of Travancore-Cochin" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 37. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  6. "ceo.kerala.gov.in" (PDF).
  7. "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
  8. "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
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