Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency

Vattiyoorkavu
Vattiyoorkavu
Constituency No. 133 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Kowdiar Palace at Kowdiar ward of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation in Vattiyoorkavu Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
Established	2011
Total electors	2,08,579 (2022)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent V. K. Prasanth
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2019

Vattiyoorkavu State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency. ^[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is V. K. Prasanth of CPI(M).

Vattiyoorkavu constituency came into existence in 2011. Before it was known as Trivandrum North Constituency from 1977 to 2011, and Trivandrum-II constituency from 1957 to 1977.

Local self governed segments

Vattiyoorkavu Legislative Assembly Constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments:^[2]

Sl no.	Name	Wards	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality/Municipal Corporation)	Taluk
1	Thiruvananthapuram	24 wards	Municipal Corporation	Thiruvananthapuram

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented Vattiyoorkavu Legislative Assembly Constituency during the period of various assemblies:^[3]

As Trivandrum-II

Election	Member
1957	Pattom Thanu Pillai	Praja Socialist Party
1960	Pattom Thanu Pillai	Praja Socialist Party
1967	K. C. Vamadevan	Independent
1970	K. Pankajakshan	Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)

As Trivandrum North

Election	Member
1977	K. Ravindran Nair	Independent
1980	K. Anirudhan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1982	G. Karthikeyan	Indian National Congress
1987	M. Vijayakumar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991
1996
2001	K. Mohankumar	Indian National Congress
2006	M. Vijayakumar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)

As Vattiyoorkavu

Election	Member
2011	K. Muraleedharan	Indian National Congress
2016	K. Muraleedharan	Indian National Congress
2019*	V. K. Prasanth	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2021	V. K. Prasanth	Communist Party of India (Marxist)

* Byepoll

Election results

Niyamasabha election 2021

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

Partywise Results

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vattiyoorkavu
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. K. Prasanth	61,111	44.40	0.15
	BJP	V. V. Rajesh	39,596	28.77	6.61
	INC	Veena S. Nair	35655	25.76	6.82
	BSP	N. Murali	890	0.3
	SDPI	A. Shyju	201	0.15
	NOTA	None of the above	109	0.62	0.04
Margin of victory			21,515	15.63	3.96
Turnout			1,37,636
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	0.15

Niyamasabha By-election 2019

Due to the election of the sitting MLA K. Muraleedharan as the MP from Vatakara (Lok Sabha constituency), Vattiyoorkavu Constituency went to bypoll in 2019. There were 1,97,570 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Constituency for this election.^[4] V. K. Prashanth won by 14,465 votes in the subsequent election conducted in October 2019.^[5]

2019 Kerala Legislative Assembly by-elections: Vattiyoorkavu
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. K. Prasanth	54,830	44.25%	14.46
	INC	K. Mohankumar	40,365	32.58%	5.23
	BJP	S. Suresh	27,453	22.16%	10.03
	NOTA	None of the Above	820	0.66%	0.06
	Independent	A.Mohanakumar	135	0.11%	N/A
	Independent	Nagaraj G.	100	0.08%	N/A
	Independent	Suresh S. S.	93	0.08%	N/A
	Independent	Murukan A.	76	0.06%	N/A
	Independent	Mithran G.	38	0.03%	N/A
Majority			14,465	11.67%	6.06
Turnout			1,23,910	62.66%	7.17
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing	14.46

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 1,95,239 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Constituency for the 2016 Kerala legislative assembly Election.^[6]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vattiyoorkavu
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	K. Muraleedharan	51,322	37.81	12.38
	BJP	Kummanam Rajasekharan	43,700	32.19	20.21
	CPI(M)	T. N. Seema	40,441	29.79	6.05
	BSP	Mekkansi K. John	399	0.29	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	816	0.60	N/A
	Independent	Binu D.	147	0.11
	Independent	Sahadevan	104	0.08
	Independent	K. G. Mohanan	77	0.06
	Independent	Baby D.	53	0.04
	Independent	Saju Ameerdas	48	0.04
Majority			7,622	5.56	8.79
Turnout			1,37,108	70.23	6.01
	INC hold		Swing	12.38

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,75,398 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[7]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vattiyoorkavu
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	K. Muraleedharan	56,531	50.19
	Independent	Cheriyan Phillip	40,364	35.84
	BJP	V. V. Rajesh	13,494	11.98
	BSP	Kaithakodu Radhakrishnan	915	0.81
	Independent	Cheriyan P. T.	551	0.49
	Independent	Rajan K.	488	0.08
	Independent	G. Balakrishnan Nair	294	0.26
Majority			16,167	14.35
Turnout			1,12,637	64.22
	INC win (new seat)

References

^ "State Assembly Constituencies in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala". trivandrum.nic.in.
^ "Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Thiruvananthapuram District".
^ "Members of Kerala Legislative Assembly: Vattiyoorkavu".
^ "Vattiyoorkavu Niyamasabha Constituency goes to bypoll, www.thehindu.com". www.thehindu.com.
^ "'ശരിദൂരം'കടന്ന് പ്രശാന്ത്; ബിജെപിക്കും യുഡിഎഫിനും കനത്ത പ്രഹരം". ManoramaOnline (in Malayalam). Retrieved 24 October 2019.
^ "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.

[1] "State Assembly Constituencies in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala". trivandrum.nic.in.

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

[3] "Members of Kerala Legislative Assembly: Vattiyoorkavu".

[4] "Vattiyoorkavu Niyamasabha Constituency goes to bypoll, www.thehindu.com". www.thehindu.com.

[5] "'ശരിദൂരം'കടന്ന് പ്രശാന്ത്; ബിജെപിക്കും യുഡിഎഫിനും കനത്ത പ്രഹരം". ManoramaOnline (in Malayalam). Retrieved 24 October 2019.

[6] "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.

[7] "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.

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