Aruvikkara Assembly constituency

Aruvikkara
Aruvikkara
Constituency No. 136 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Aruvikkara Dam
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
Lok Sabha constituency	Attingal
Established	2008
Total electors	146,160 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent G. Steephen
Party	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Aruvikkara 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 Attingal Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 Assembly elections, the current MLA is G. Steephen of Communist Party of India (Marxist).

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Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
Aruvikkara	Grama panchayat	Nedumangad
Aryanadu	Grama panchayat	Nedumangad
Tholicode	Grama panchayat	Nedumangad
Vithura	Grama panchayat	Nedumangad
Uzhamalackal	Grama panchayat	Nedumangad
Vellanad	Grama panchayat	Nedumangad and Kattakada
Kuttichal	Grama panchayat	Kattakada
Poovachal	Grama panchayat	Kattakada

Election	Member
2011	G. Karthikeyan	Indian National Congress
2015^	K. S. Sabarinadhan
2016	K. S. Sabarinadhan
2021	G. Steephen	Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	G. Stephen	66,776	45.83	11.33
	INC	K. S. Sabarinathan	61,730	42.37	6.95
	BJP	C. Sivankutty	15,379	10.55	3.57
	NOTA	None of the above	900	0.62	0.17
Margin of victory			5046	3.47	11.35
Turnout			1,45,708
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing	11.33

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	K. S. Sabarinathan	70,910	49.32	9.30
	CPI(M)	A. A. Rasheed	49,596	34.50	1.66
	BJP	Rajasenan	20,294	14.12	10.08
	SDPI	M. A. Jaleel	707	0.49
	BSP	Chitralekha E.	673	0.47
	NOTA	None of the above	640	0.45
	Independent	Sabarinath	331	0.23
	Independent	Cherappally Viswanathan	188	0.13
	Independent	Rasheed	158	0.11
	Independent	A. P. Kakkadu	134	0.09
	Independent	Ajitha B.	130	0.09
Margin of victory			21,314	14.82	7.64
Turnout			1,43,761	75.86	0.30
	INC hold		Swing	9.30

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	K. S. Sabarinathan	56,448	40.02	8.77
	CPI	M. Vijayakumar	46,320	32.84
	BJP	O. Rajagopal	34,145	24.20	17.59
	Independent	K. Das	1,197	0.85
	PDP	Poonthura Siraj	703	0.50	0.25
	Independent	P. K. Sukumaran	481	0.34
	Independent	Sunil M. Karani	422	0.30
		Thomas Kaithaparambil	383	0.27
	Independent	Irinchayam Suresh	354	0.25
	ABHM	Sreejita T. R.	171	0.12
	Independent	Sabarinath M. S.	143	0.10
		N. Sasidharan Pillai	93	0.07
	Independent	Vijaya Kumar B.	69	0.05
	IGP	K. M. Sivaprasad	62	0.04
	Independent	Vijaya Kumar Nair	40	0.03
	Independent	K. G. Mohanan	35	0.02
Margin of victory			10,128	7.18	9.30
Turnout			1,41,066	76.16	5.88
	INC hold		Swing	8.77

Local self-governed segments

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Aruvikkara
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	G. Karthikeyan	56,797	48.79
	RSP	Ambalathara Sreedharan Nair	46,123	39.62
	BJP	Sivankutty C.	7,694	6.61
	BSP	A. Balan	1,746	1.50
	Independent	Poovathoor S. Rajeev	972	0.83
	Independent	Sanil V. O.	913	0.78
	Independent	R. Rajappan	753	0.65
	Independent	Karakulam Sathyakumar	651	0.56
	SUCI(C)	S. Sreekumar	525	0.45
	Independent	Latha B. Vellumannadi	244	0.21
Margin of victory			10,674	9.17
Turnout			1,16,418	70.28
	INC win (new seat)