Beypore Assembly constituency

Beypore 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 Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 Assembly election, the current MLA is P. A. Mohammed Riyas of CPI(M).

Beypore
Constituency No. 29 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Uru, a large Dhow-type wooden ship made by Carpenters in Beypore
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kozhikode
Established	1965
Total electors	2,08,059 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent P. A. Mohammed Riyas
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Local self-governed segments

Beypore Assembly constituency is composed of the following 14 wards of the Kozhikode Municipal Corporation (Beypore zone and Cheruvannur Nallalam zone) in Kozhikode Taluk, and two Municipalities and one Gram Panchayat in the same Taluk:^[2]

Wards of Kozhikode Municipal Corporation

Ward no.	Name
40	Areekad North
41	Areekad
42	Nallalam
43	Kolathara
44	Kundayithodu
45	Cheruvannur East
46	Cheruvannur West
47	Beypore Port
48	Beypore
49	Marad
50	Naduvattam
51	Punjappadam
52	Arakkinar
53	Mathottam

Other local bodies

Name	Local body type	Taluk
Feroke	Municipality	Kozhikode
Ramanattukara	Municipality	Kozhikode
Kadalundi	Grama panchayat	Kozhikode

Members of Legislative Assembly

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

Key

  INC   CPI(M)   INC(U)

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1967	3rd	K. Chathunni		CPI(M)	1967 – 1970
1970	4th				1970 – 1977
1977	5th	N. P. Moideen		INC	1977 – 1980
1980	6th			INC(U)	1980 – 1982
1982	7th	K. Moosakutty		CPI(M)	1982 – 1987
1987	8th	T. K. Hamza			1987 – 1991
1991	9th				1991 – 1996
1996	10th				1996 – 2001
2001	11th	V. K. C. Mammed Koya			2001 – 2006
2006	12th	Elamaram Kareem			2006 – 2011
2011	13th				2011 – 2016
2016	14th	V. K. C. Mammed Koya			2016-2021
2021	15th	P. A. Mohammed Riyas			Incumbent

Election results

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

2021

There were 2,08,059 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 election.^[3]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Beypore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	P. A. Mohammed Riyas	82,165	49.73	5.34
	INC	PM Niyas	53,418	32.33	2.83
	BJP	KP Prakash Babu	26,267	15.9	2.06
	SDPI	Jamal Chaliyam	2,029	1.23	0.53
	NOTA	None of the above	621	0.38	−
	BSP	Abdul Gafoor K. K	272	0.16%	0.16
	Independent	PP Mohammed Riyas	165	0.1	−
	Independent	EM Niyas	162	0.1	−
	Independent	Niyas K	111	0.06	0.06
Margin of victory			28,747	17.4	8.17
Turnout			1,65,210	79.40	2.06
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	5.34

2016

There were 1,91,152 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.^[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Beypore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. K. C. Mammed Koya	69,114	44.39	2.41
	INC	Adam Mulsi M. P.	51751	35.16	7.53
	BJP	KP Prakash Babu	27,958	17.96	9.43
	WPOI	P. C. Muhammedkutty	1,387	0.89%	−
	SDPI	Muhammed Musthafa P. P.	1,126	0.72	0.02
	NOTA	None of the above	605	0.39	−
	Independent	Mammed koya	355	0.23	−
	Independent	Adam Malique E.	199	0.13	0.18
	Independent	Adam	109	0.07	−
	Independent	Ajeesh Kumar Erakkathil	105	0.07	−
Margin of victory			14,363	9.23	5.12
Turnout			1,55,709	81.46	2.59
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	2.41

2011

There were 1,64,045 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[5]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Beypore

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Elamaram Kareem	60,550	46.80
	INC	Adam Mulsi M. P.	55,234	42.69
	BJP	K. P. Sreesan	11,040	8.53
	SDPI	Muhammed Musthafa	954	0.74
	Independent	K. S. Hariharan	564	0.44
	BSP	K. T. Latha	469	0.36
	Independent	Adam Malique E.	396	0.31	−
	Independent	Abdul Kareem	183	0.14	−
Margin of victory			5,316	4.11
Turnout			1,29,390	78.87
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

See also

• Beypore
• Kozhikode district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election