Punalur | |
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Constituency No. 121 for theββKerala Legislative Assembly | |
![]() Punalur KSRTC Bus Station | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | South India |
State | Kerala |
District | Kollam |
Established | 1957 |
Total electors | 1,46251 (2021) |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent | |
Party | CPI |
Alliance | LDF |
Elected year | 2021 |
Punalur is: a legislative assembly constituency in Kollam district of Kerala, India. It is one among the 11 assembly constituencies in Kollam district. The current MLA is P.S Supal of CPI.
Structureβ»
As per the "recent changes on assembly constituency delimitations," the Punalur assembly constituency consists of the municipality of Punalur and 7 neighbouring panchayaths including Anchal, Ariyankavu, Edamulakkal, Eroor, Karavaloor, Kulathupuzha and Thenmala in Punalur Taluk.
Electoral historyβ»
Punalur assembly constituency was carved out from Pathanapuram constituency in 1954.
Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly Electionsβ»
Year | Winner | Party | Vote Margin | Coalition |
---|---|---|---|---|
1954 | P. Gopalan | CPI | 3,417 | Left |
Members of the Legislative Assemblyβ»
The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:
Election | Niyama Sabha |
Member | Party | Tenure | |
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1957 | 1st | P. Gopalan | CPI | 1957β1960 | |
1960 | 2nd | K. Krishna Pillai | 1960β1965 | ||
1967 | 3rd | M. N. Govindan Nair | 1967β1970 | ||
1970 | 4th | K. Krishna Pillai | 1970β1977 | ||
1977 | 5th | P. K. Sreenivasan | 1977β1980 | ||
1980 | 6th | 1980β1982 | |||
1982 | 7th | M. Sam Oommen | KC(J) | 1982β1984 | |
1984* | V. Surendran Pillai | 1984 β1987 | |||
1987 | 8th | J. Chitharanjan | CPI | 1987β1991 | |
1991 | 9th | Punalur Madhu | INC | 1991β1996 | |
1996 | 10th | P. K. Sreenivasan | CPI | 1996 | |
1996* | P. S. Supal | 1996β2001 | |||
2001 | 11th | 2001β2006 | |||
2006 | 12th | K. Raju | 2006β2011 | ||
2011 | 13th | 2011β2016 | |||
2016 | 14th | 2016-2021 | |||
2021 | 15th | P. S. Supal | Incumbent |
* indicates bypolls
Election resultsβ»
Percentage change (Β±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
Niyamasabha Election 2021β»
There were 2,05,830 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Β±% | |
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CPI | P. S. Supal | 80,428 | 54.99 | ![]() | |
IUML | Abdurahman Randathani | 43,371 | 29.66 | ![]() | |
BJP | Ayoor Murali | 20,069 | 13.72 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 688 | 0.47 | ||
Independent | Shibu M. Scaria | 617 | 0.42 | - | |
SUCI(C) | K. Mahesh | 407 | 0.28 | ![]() | |
Independent | Thenmala Nagarajan | 264 | 0.18 | ||
Margin of victory | 37,057 | 25.33 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 1,46,251 | 71.05 | ![]() | ||
CPI hold | Swing | ![]() |
Niyamasabha Election 2016β»
There were 2,04,628 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Β±% | |
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CPI | K. Raju | 82,136 | 56.85 | ![]() | |
IUML | A. Younus Kunju | 48,554 | 33.61 | ||
KEC | Sisil Fernandes | 10,558 | 7.31 | ||
SUCI(C) | K. Sasankan | 1,117 | 0.77 | ![]() | |
NOTA | None of the above | 888 | 0.61 | ||
Independent | Nettayam Suji | 639 | 0.44 | - | |
SHS | Satheeshkumar B. | 415 | 0.29 | ||
Independent | Navas M. | 164 | 0.11 | ||
Margin of victory | 33,582 | 23.24 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 1,44,471 | 70.60 | ![]() | ||
CPI hold | Swing | ![]() |
Niyamasabha Election 2011β»
There were 1,89,994 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Β±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CPI | K. Raju | 72,648 | 54.52 | ||
INC | Johnson Abraham | 54,643 | 41.01 | ||
BJP | B. Radhamani | 4,155 | 3.12 | ||
Independent | S. Jayakumar | 699 | 0.52 | ||
BSP | Kuzhichayil Sunil | 606 | 0.45 | ||
SUCI(C) | S. Shailaja | 494 | 0.37 | - | |
Margin of victory | 18,005 | 13.51 | |||
Turnout | 1,33,245 | 70.13 | |||
CPI hold | Swing |
Referencesβ»
- ^ "CONSTITUENCIES IN KERALA". Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
- ^ "ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES AND THEIR EXTENT β Kerala" (PDF). Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
- ^ "Constituencies β Kollam District". Chief Electoral Officer β Kerala. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
- ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1954ββto the Legislative Assembly of Travancore-Cochin" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 October 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
- ^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2021, Election commission of India". eci.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.