Alappuzha Assembly constituency

Alappuzha State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] The current MLA is P. P Chitharenjan of CPI(M).

Alappuzha
Constituency No. 104 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Alappuzha Bypass
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Alappuzha
Lok Sabha constituency	Alappuzha
Established	1957
Total electors	1,93,532 (2016)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent P. P Chitharenjan
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Local self-governed segments

Alappuzha Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:^[2]

Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
Parts of Alappuzha	Municipality	Ambalappuzha
Aryad	Grama panchayat	Ambalappuzha
Mannancherry	Grama panchayat	Ambalappuzha
Mararikulam North	Grama panchayat	Cherthala
Mararikulam South	Grama panchayat	Ambalappuzha

Members of Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented the constituency:

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1957	1st	T. V. Thomas		CPI	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd	A. Nafeesath Beevi		INC	1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	T. V. Thomas		CPI	1967 – 1970
1970	4th				1970 – 1977
1977	5th	P. K. Vasudevan Nair			1977 – 1980
1980	6th				1980 – 1982
1982	7th	K. P. Ramachandran Nair		NDP	1982 – 1987
1987	8th	Rosamma Punnose		CPI	1987 – 1991
1991	9th	Vijayamma. S		INC	1991 – 1996
1996	10th	K. C. Venugopal			1996 – 2001
2001	11th				2001 – 2006
2006	12th				2006 – 2009
2009*	12th	A. A. Shukoor			2009 – 2011
2011	13th	T. M. Thomas Isaac		CPI(M)	2011 – 2016
2016	14th				2016 - 2021
2021	15th	P. P. Chitharanjan			Incumbent

*by-election

Election results

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

2021

There were 1,54,149 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Alappuzha

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	P. P. Chitharanjan	73,412	46.33	6.96
	INC	K. S. Manoj	61,768	38.98	5.56
	BJP	Sandeep Vachaspati	21,650	13.66	3.00
	NOTA	NOTA	1,089	0.69
Margin of victory			11,644	7.35	0.95
Turnout			1,58,446	-	−
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	6.96

2016

There were 1,41,243 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.^[3]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Alappuzha

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	T. M. Thomas Isaac	83,211	53.29	0.42
	INC	Laly Vincent	52,179	33.42	8.72
	BJP	Ranjith Sreenivas	18,214	11.66	9.15
	NOTA	None of the above	856	0.55	−
	SDPI	P. A. Sulaiman	703	0.45	0.37
	PDP	K. Mujeeb	481	0.31	−
	SUCI(C)	K. A. Vinod	244	0.16
	Independent	Premji K. P.	149	0.10
	Independent	Prasanth	113	0.07
Margin of victory			31,032	19.87	8.30
Turnout			1,56,150	80.68	0.52
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	0.42

2011

There were 1,93,532 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[4]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Alappuzha

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Vijayamma. S	75,008	53.71
	CPI(M)	T. M. Thomas Issac	59,515	42.14	−
	BJP	Kottaram Unnikrishnan	3,450	2.51	−
	SDPI	T. M. Samad	1,158	0.82
	Independent	Sebastian	646	0.46
	BSP	C. P. Thilakan	527	0.37
Margin of victory			16,342	11.57
Turnout			1,41,243	81.20
	CPI(M) gain from		Swing

See also

• Alappuzha
• Alappuzha district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election