Attingal Assembly constituency

Attingal 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 Attingal Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is O. S. Ambika of CPI(M).

Attingal
Constituency No. 128 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Kilimanoor town in the constituency.
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
Lok Sabha constituency	Attingal
Established	1957
Total electors	2,02,123 (2021)
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent O S Ambika
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Local self-governed segments

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

Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
Attingal	Municipality	Chirayinkeezhu
Karavaram	Grama panchayat	Chirayinkeezhu
Kilimanoor	Grama panchayat	Chirayinkeezhu
Nagaroor	Grama panchayat	Chirayinkeezhu
Pazhayakunnummel	Grama panchayat	Chirayinkeezhu
Pulimath	Grama panchayat	Chirayinkeezhu
Vakkom	Grama panchayat	Chirayinkeezhu
Cherunniyoor	Grama panchayat	Varkala
Manamboor	Grama panchayat	Varkala
Ottoor	Grama panchayat	Varkala

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented the constituency:^[3]

Election	Member	Party
1957	R. Prakasam		Communist Party of India
1960	N. Kunjuraman		Indian National Congress
1967	K. P. K. Das		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1970	Vakkom Purushothaman		Indian National Congress
1977
1980			Indian National Congress (U)
1982			Independent
1985*	P. Vijayadas		Indian Congress (Socialist)
1987	Anathalavattom Anandan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991	T. Sarath Chandra Prasad		Indian National Congress
1996	Anathalavattom Anandan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2001	Vakkom Purushothaman		Indian National Congress
2006	Anathalavattom Anandan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2011	B. Satyan
2016
2021	O. S. Ambika

Election results

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

2021

There were 2,02,123 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.^[4]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Attingal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	O. S. Ambika	69,898	47.35	5.36
	BJP	P. Sudheer	38,262	25.92	5.94
	RSP	A. Sreedharan	36,938	25.02	1.55
	NOTA	None of the above	1,071	0.72
	BSP	Vipinlal Vidhyadharan	927	0.63	0.06
	Independent	Ambili	191	0.13	−
Margin of victory			31,636	21.43	7.81
Turnout			1,47,626	73.04	3.51
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	5.36

2016

There were 1,98,678 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[5]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Attingal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	B. Satyan	72,808	52.71	2.73
	RSP	K. Chandrababu	32,425	23.47
	BJP	Raji Prasad	27,602	19.98	15.75
	SDPI	M. K. Manoj Kumar	1,437	1.04	0.32
	NOTA	None of the above	1,267	0.92
	BSP	K. Sivanandan	789	0.57	0.51
	Independent	Rajesh R.	639	0.46
	SS	B. Jayanthakumar	597	0.43
	Independent	C. R. Thulasi	411	0.30
	Independent	Pratheeshkumar P.	162	0.12
Margin of victory			40,383	29.24	3.02
Turnout			1,38,137	69.53	2.76
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	2.73

2011

There were 1,71,684 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[6]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Attingal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	B. Satyan	63,558	55.44
	INC	Thankamony Divakaran	33,493	29.22
	Independent	Attingal Suresh	7,857	6.85
	BJP	P. P. Vava	4,844	4.23
	Independent	V. V. Selvaraj	1,713	1.49
	SDPI	K. G. Soman	1,561	1.36
	BSP	M. Chinamma	1,235	1.08
	Independent	G. Anirudhan	377	0.33
Margin of victory			30,065	26.22
Turnout			1,14,638	66.77
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

2006

2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Attingal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Anathalavattom Anandan	42,912	53.75
	INC	C Mohanachandran	31,704	39.71
Margin of victory			11,208	14.04
Turnout			79,836
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing

2001

2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Attingal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Vakkom Purushothaman	51,139	53.68
	CPI(M)	Anathalavattom Anandan	40,323	42.33
Margin of victory			10,816	11.35
Turnout			95,259	69.75
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

1996

1996 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Attingal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Anathalavattom Anandan	42,161	48.69
	INC	Vakkom Purushothaman	41,145	47.52
Margin of victory			1,016	1.17
Turnout			86,592	69.98
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing

1991

1991 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Attingal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	T Saratchandra Prasad	41,964	48.6
	CPI(M)	Anathalavattom Anandan	41,527	48.1
Margin of victory			437	0.5
Turnout			86,343	67.33
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

1965

1965 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Attingal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	K.Anirudhan	25,598	47.75%
	INC	R.Sankar	23,515	43.87%
Margin of victory			2,083
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing

See also

• Attingal
• Thiruvananthapuram district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election