U. A. Latheef

U. A. Latheef is an Indian politician belonging to Indian Union Muslim League.^[2][3][4] He was elected as a member of Kerala Legislative Assembly from Manjeri on 2 May 2021.^[5]

U. A. Latheef was born to Muhammad Haji at Manjeri around 1949.^[1] He was graduated as a Bachelor of Laws from Government Law College, Ernakulam in the year 1973.^[1] He is an Advocate by profession.^[1]

Earlier, U. A. Latheef had been the district general secretary of IUML^[2][3] and the district convener of UDF^[6] from the district of Malappuram. Due to the end of term of the last sitting MLA M. Ummer, Manjeri went to poll as a part of 2021 Kerala general election on 6 April 2021.^[7] U. A. Latheef was the candidate fielded by UDF from Manjeri.^[8][9] There were 206,960 registered voters in Manjeri Constituency for the election.^[10] U. A. Latheef won the election by a margin of 14,573 votes.^[11][5]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Manjeri^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	IUML	U. A. Latheef	78,836	50.22%
	CPI	Nazar Debona	64,263	40.93%	4.83
	BJP	P. R. Rashmilnath	11,350	7.23%	0.85
	Independent	Palathingal Aboobacker	1,341	0.85%	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	1,202	0.77%	0.11
Margin of victory			14,573	9.29%	4.83
Turnout			1,53,811[10]	74.32%[10]	1.30
	IUML hold		Swing