Vypen Assembly constituency

Constituency of the Kerala legislative assembly in India

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Vypen 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 Ernakulam Lok Sabha constituency. [1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is K. N. Unnikrishnan of CPI(M).

Vypen constituency came into existence in 2011. Before It was known as Njarackal Constituency from 1957 to 2011.

Local self governed segments

The constituency lies in the islands of Vypin. It is composed of the following local self-governed segments:[2]

Sl no. Name Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality) Taluk
1 Edavanakkad Grama panchayat Kochi
2 Elamkunnapuzha Grama panchayat Kochi
3 Kuzhuppilly Grama panchayat Kochi
4 Nayarambalam Grama panchayat Kochi
5 Njarackal Grama panchayat Kochi
6 Pallippuram Grama panchayat Kochi
7 Kadamakkudy Grama panchayat Kanayannur
8 Mulavukad Grama panchayat Kanayannur

Members of Legislative Assembly

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

Key

  INC   CPI(M)   RSP   Independent   IC(S)

As Njarackal

Election Niyama
Sabha 		Member Party Tenure
1957 1st K. C. Abraham INC 1957 – 1960
1960 2nd 1960 – 1965
1967 3rd A. S. Purushothaman CPI(M) 1967 – 1970
1970 4th M. K. Raghavan INC 1970 – 1977
1977 5th T. A. Paraman RSP 1977 – 1980
1980 6th M. K. Krishnan CPI(M) 1980 – 1982
1982 7th P. K. Velayudhan Ind. 1982 – 1987
1987 8th K. K. Madhavan IC(S) 1987 – 1991
1991 9th Dr. I Muhamed Suffeer INC 1991 – 1996
1996 10th M. A. Kuttappan 1996 – 2001
2001 11th 2001 – 2006
2006 12th M. K. Purushothaman CPI(M) 2006 – 2011

As Vypen

Election Niyama

Sabha

Member Party Tenure
2011 13th S. Sharma CPI(M) 2011 – 2016
2016 14th 2016-2021
2021 15th K. N. Unnikrishnan Incumbent

Election results

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

Niyamasabha Election 2021

There were 1,72,086 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[3]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Vypen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) K. N. Unnikrishnan 53,858 41.24 Decrease11.00
INC Deepak Joy 45,657 37.49 Decrease2.53
Twenty 20 Party Job Chakkalackal 16,707 12.79 New
BJP K. S. Shaiju 13,540 10.37 -
NOTA None of the above 525 0.40 -
Independent M. K. Mukundan 309 0.24 -
Margin of victory 8,201 6.28 Decrease8.47
Turnout 1,30,596 75.89 Increase3.98
CPI(M) hold Swing Decrease11.00

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 1,64,237 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Vypen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) S. Sarma 68,526 52.24 Increase1.87
INC K. R. Subhash 49,173 37.49 Decrease8.54
BDJS Vamalochanan K. K. 10,051 7.66 -
WPOI Jyothidas Paravur 1,406 1.07 -
NOTA None of the above 910 0.69 -
CPI(ML)L Manjuladevi 248 0.19 -
API Rajeev Naagan 231 0.18 -
Independent Subhash K. S. 217 0.17 -
PDP K. D. Vishwanathan 183 0.14 -
Independent Kodickal Sadasivan 136 0.10 -
Independent S. D. Satheesh 88 0.07 -
Margin of victory 19,353 14.75 Increase10.41
Turnout 1,31,169 79.87 Increase0.47
CPI(M) hold Swing Increase1.87

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,52,040 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[5]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Vypen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) S. Sarma 60,530 50.37
INC Ajay Tharayil 55,572 46.03
BJP T. G. Surendran 2,930 2.43 -
BSP T. K. Sivanandan 546 0.45 -
Independent Santhosh Sarma 490 0.41 -
Independent Benny Joseph 374 0.31
Margin of victory 5,242 4.34
Turnout 1,20,726 79.40
CPI(M) win (new seat)

See also

References

  1. ^ "State Assembly Constituencies in Ernakulam district, Kerala".
  2. ^ "State Assembly constituencies in Ernakulam district, Kerala". www.ceo.kerala.gov.in.
  3. ^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2021, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
  4. ^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
  5. ^ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
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