Karunagappally Assembly constituency explained

Karunagappally
State:Kerala
Type:SLA
Loksabha Cons:Alappuzha
Constituency No:116
Established:1957
Reservation:None
Electors:2,13,993 (2021)
Mla:C. R. Mahesh
Party:INC
Latest Election Year:2021
District:Kollam

Karunagappally State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency.[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is C. R. Mahesh of Indian National Congress.

Structure

Karunagappally assembly constituency was formed in 1951. As per the recent changes on assembly constituency delimitations, the assembly constituency consists of Karunagappally municipality and 6 panchayaths from Karunagappally Taluk including Alappad, Clappana, Kulasekharapuram, Oachira, Thazhava and Thodiyoor.[2]

Major institutions in the constituency

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

ElectionNiyamaSabhaNamePartyTenure
19571stP. Kunjukrishnan1957 – 1960
19602ndBaby John1960 – 1965
19673rd1967 – 1970
19704th1970 – 1977
19775thB. M. Sheriff1977 – 1980
19806th1980 – 1982
19827thT. V. Vijayarajan1982 – 1987
19878thP. S. Sreenivasan1987 – 1991
19919th1991 – 1996
199610thE. Chandrasekharan Nair1996 – 2001
200111thA. N. Rajan Babu2001 – 2006
200612thC. Divakaran2006 – 2011
201113th2011 – 2016
201614thR. Ramachandran2016 - 2021
202115thC. R. MaheshIncumbent

Election results

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

2021

There were 2,13,993 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 2,04,539 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[3]

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,82,508 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: State Assembly Constituencies in Kollam district, Kerala. kollam.gov.in .
  2. Web site: ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES AND THEIR EXTENT - Kerala . Kerala Assembly . 2019-07-25.
  3. Web site: Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India. eci.gov.in.
  4. Web site: Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India. eci.gov.in. 11 March 2020.