Chadayamangalam Assembly constituency

Chadayamangalam is a legislative assembly constituency in the southeast of Kollam district in Kerala, India. It is one among the evening assembly constituencies in the district.^[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is J. Chinchu Rani of CPI.

Chadayamangalam
Constituency No. 122 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Jatayu Park in Chadayamangalam Assembly constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kollam
Established	1957
Total electors	1,96,733 (2016)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent J. Chinchu Rani
Party	CPI
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Structure

As per the recent changes on Assembly constituency delimitations, Chadayamangalam Assembly constituency consists of Alayamon Panchayat in Punalur Taluk and Chadayamangalam, Chithara, Elamad, Ittiva, Kadakkal, Nilamel and Velinalloor Panchayats in Kottarakkara Taluk.^[2][3]

Electoral history

Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly Elections

Year	Winner	Party		Vote Margin	Coalition
1951	Kesava Pillai		Indian National Congress	1,703	Right
	Kochukunju		Praja Socialist Party	642	NA[4]
1954	V. Gangadharan		Praja Socialist Party	9,634	NA[5]

Members of the 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	Veliyam Bhargavan		Communist Party of India	1957–1960
1960	2nd				1960–1965
1967	3rd	D. D. Potti		Samyukta Socialist Party	1967–1970
1970	4th	M. N. Govindan Nair		Communist Party of India	1970–1977
1977	5th	E. Chandrasekharan Nair			1977–1980
1980	6th				1980–1982
1982	7th	K. R. Chandramohan			1982–1984
1987	8th				1987–1991
1991	9th				1991–1996
1996	10th	R. Latha Devi			1996–2001
2001	11th	Prayar Gopalakrishnan		Indian National Congress	2001–2006
2006	12th	Mullakara Ratnakaran		Communist Party of India	2006–2011
2011	13th				2011–2016
2016	14th				2016 - 2021
2021	15th	J. Chinchu Rani			Incumbent

Election results

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

2021

There were 1,97,285 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.^[6]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Chadayamangalam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	J. Chinchu Rani	67,252	45.69	3.41
	INC	M.M.Naseer	53,574	36.40	2.41
	BJP	Vishnu Pattathanam	22,238	15.11	1. 84
	SDPI	Sharafath Mallam	1,879	1.28	0.28
	NOTA	None of the above	685	0.47	0.01
	WPOI	Archana Prajith	605	0.41	0.07
	BSP	Lalu	406	0.28
	Anna DHRM	Ratheesh Kadakkal	280	0.19
	Independent	Shibu.K.Chadayamangalam	258	0.18
Margin of victory			13,678	9.29	5.82
Turnout			1,47,177	74.60	0.82
	CPI hold		Swing	3.41

2016

There were 1,96,733 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[7]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Chadayamangalam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Mullakkara Ratnakaran	71,262	49.10	6.80
	INC	M. M. Hassan	49,334	33.99	3.37
	BJP	K. Sivadasan	19,259	13.27	10.01
	SDPI	Jaleel Kadakkal	1,445	1.00	0.41
	WPOI	Sajeed Khaleedu	1,222	0.84	−
	NOTA	None of the above	699	0.48
	Independent	Sunny Itriva	538	0.37
	SS	Sreejith S.	284	0.20
Margin of victory			21,928	15.11	3.43
Turnout			1,45,141	73.78	2.03
	CPI hold		Swing	6.80

2011

There were 1,77,610 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[8]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Chadayamangalam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Mullakkara Ratnakaran	71,231	55.90
	INC	Shahida Kamal	47,607	37.56
	BJP	T. C. Saju Kumar	4,160	3.26
	SDPI	Jaleel Kadakkal	1,800	1.41
	Independent	Shibu K. Chadayamangalam	1,078	0.85	−
	BSP	Kootukkal Prasad	996	0.78
	Independent	Oyoor Nazeer	557	0.44
Margin of victory			23,624	18.54
Turnout			1,27,429	71.75
	CPI hold		Swing