Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency

Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 20 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Kerala state in southern India.

Alappuzha KL-15
Lok Sabha constituency
Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
Assembly constituencies	Aroor Cherthala Alappuzha Ambalappuzha Haripad Kayamkulam Karunagappally
Established	1962
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent K. C. Venugopal
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2024

Assembly segments

Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:^[1]

No	Name	Member	Party		2024 Lead
102	Aroor	Daleema		CPI(M)		INC
103	Cherthala	P. Prasad		CPI(M)		INC
104	Alappuzha	P. P. Chitharanjan		CPI(M)		INC
105	Ambalappuzha	H. Salam		CPI(M)		INC
106	Haripad	Ramesh Chennithala		INC		INC
108	Kayamkulam	U. Prathibha		CPI(M)		INC
116	Karunagappally	C. R. Mahesh		INC		INC

Former Assembly Segments

• Aroor
• Cherthala
• Mararikulam
• Alappuzha
• Ambalappuzha
• Kuttanad
• Haripad

After the Delimitation Kayamkulam and Karunagappally were added

Members of Parliament

As Alleppey in Travancore-Cochin

Most Successful parties from Alappuzha Lok Sabha

1. INC (8 Times) (47.0%)
2. CPI(M) (5 Times) (29.4%)
3. CPI (3 Times) (17.6%)
4. RSP (1 Times) (5.88%)

Election	Lok Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1952	1st	P.T. Punnoose		Communist Party of India	1952-1957

As Ambalappuzha

Election	Lok Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1957	2nd	P.T. Punnoose		Communist Party of India	1957-1962
1962	3rd	P. K. Vasudevan Nair			1962-1967
1967	4th	Susheela Gopalan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1967-1971
1971	5th	K. Balakrishnan		Revolutionary Socialist Party	1971-1977

As Alappuzha

Election	Lok Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1977	6th	V. M. Sudheeran		Indian National Congress	1977-1980
1980	7th	Susheela Gopalan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1980-1984
1984	8th	Vakkom Purushothaman		Indian National Congress	1984-1989
1989	9th				1989-1991
1991	10th	T. J. Anjalose		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1991-1996
1996	11th	V. M. Sudheeran		Indian National Congress	1996-1998
1998	12th				1998-1999
1999	13th				1999-2004
2004	14th	K. S. Manoj		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2004-2009
2009	15th	K. C. Venugopal		Indian National Congress	2009-2014
2014	16th				2014-2019
2019	17th	A. M. Ariff		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2019-2024
2024	18th	K. C. Venugopal		Indian National Congress	Incumbent

Election results

General Election 2024

2024 Indian general election: Alappuzha

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	K.C. Venugopal	404,560	38.21	1.80
	CPI(M)	A. M. Ariff	3,41,047	32.21	8.76
	BJP	Sobha Surendran	2,99,648	28.30	11.06
	NOTA	None of the above	7,365	0.70	0.14
Majority			63,513	6.00	5.04
Turnout			10,68,949	75.99
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

General election 2019

According to Election Commission, there are 13,14,535 registered voters in Alappuzha Constituency for 2019 Lok Sabha Election.^[2]

2019 Indian general elections: Alappuzha

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	A. M. Ariff	445,981	40.96	3.41
	INC	Shanimol Usman	4,35,496	40.00	6.31
	BJP	Dr. K. S. Radhakrishnan	1,87,729	17.24	17.24
	NOTA	None of the above	6,065	0.56
Margin of victory			10,474	0.96
Turnout			10,90,112	80.35
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Alappuzha

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	K.C. Venugopal	462,525	46.31	−5.31
	CPI(M)	C.B. Chandrababu	443,118	44.37	−0.90
	RSP(B)	A.V. Thamarakshan	43,051	4.31	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	11,338	1.14	−−−
Margin of victory			19,407	1.95	−4.40
Turnout			997,464	78.85
	INC hold		Swing

See also

• Alappuzha
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha
• Indian general election, 2014 (Kerala)
• 2014 Indian general election