State: | Kerala |
Vaikom | |
Type: | SLA |
Constituency No: | 95 |
Established: | 1957 |
Reservation: | SC |
District: | Kottayam |
Mla: | C. K. Asha |
Party: | CPI |
Latest Election Year: | 2016 |
Electors: | 1,64,469(2021) |
Vaikom is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies at the state Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Kottayam Lok Sabha constituency.[1] As of the 2016 assembly elections, the current MLA of this constituency is C. K. Asha of CPI.
Vaikom Niyama Sabha constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments:[2]
Sl no. | Name | Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality) | Taluk | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Vaikom | Municipality | Vaikom | |
2 | Chempu | Grama panchayat | Vaikom | |
3 | Kallara | Grama panchayat | Vaikom | |
4 | Maravanthuruthu | Grama panchayat | Vaikom | |
5 | T V Puram | Grama panchayat | Vaikom | |
6 | Thalayazham | Grama panchayat | Vaikom | |
7 | Thalayolaparambu | Grama panchayat | Vaikom | |
8 | Udayanapuram | Grama panchayat | Vaikom | |
9 | Vechoor | Grama panchayat | Vaikom | |
10 | Velloor | Grama panchayat | Vaikom |
The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:
Key
Election | NiyamaSabha | Member | Party | Tenure | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1957 | 1st | K. R. Narayanan | 1957 – 1960 | ||
1960 | 2nd | P. S. Sreenivasan | CPI | 1960 – 1965 | |
1967 | 3rd | 1967 – 1970 | |||
1970 | 4th | 1970 – 1977 | |||
1977 | 5th | M. K. Keshavan | 1977 – 1980 | ||
1980 | 6th | 1980 – 1982 | |||
1982 | 7th | 1982 – 1987 | |||
1987 | 8th | P. K. Raghavan | 1987 – 1991 | ||
1991 | 9th | K. K. Balakrishnan | 1991 – 1996 | ||
1996 | 10th | M. K. Keshavan | CPI | 1996 – 1998 | |
1998* | 10th | P. Narayanan | 1998 – 2001 | ||
2001 | 11th | 2001 – 2006 | |||
2006 | 12th | K. Ajith | 2006 – 2011 | ||
2011 | 13th | 2011 – 2016 | |||
2016 | 14th | C. K. Asha | 2016 – 2021 | ||
2021 | 15th | Incumbent |
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
There were 1,62,632 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[3]
There were 1,53,205 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[4]