Changanassery Assembly constituency

Changanassery 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 Mavelikara Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] C. F. Thomas^[2] represented the constituency for 40 consecutive years from 1980. In the 2021 Kerala legislative elections, Adv. Job Michael of the Kerala Congress (M) was elected from the constituency.

Changanassery
Constituency No. 99 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
A street at Changanassery Market.
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kottayam
Established	1957
Total electors	1,67,180 (2016)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Adv. Job Michael

Local self-governed segments

Changanassery Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:^[3]

Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
Changanassery	Municipality	Changanassery
Kurichy	Grama panchayat	Changanassery
Madappally	Grama panchayat	Changanassery
Paippad	Grama panchayat	Changanassery
Thrikkodithanam	Grama panchayat	Changanassery
Vazhappally	Grama panchayat	Changanassery

Members of Legislative Assembly

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

Key

  CPI   KC(M)   KEC   Independent   INC

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1957	1st	A. M. Kalyanakrishnan Nair		CPI	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd	N. Bhaskaran Nair		INC	1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	K. G. Neelakantan Nambudiripad		CPI	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	K. J. Chacko		KEC	1970 – 1977
1977	5th				1977 – 1980
1980	6th	C. F. Thomas			1980 – 1982
1982	7th				1982 – 1987
1987	8th			Independent	1987 – 1991
1991	9th			KC(M)	1991 – 1996
1996	10th				1996 – 2001
2001	11th				2001 – 2006
2006	12th				2006 – 2011
2011	13th				2011 – 2016
2016	14th				2016 – 2020
2021	15th	Adv. Job Maichil			2021 -

Election results

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

2021

C. F. Thomas, who had represented the constituency for 40 years, died in September 2020. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic and also the nearby legislative assembly elections, a by-election was not held. The Kerala Congress (M) had left the UDF and had joined the LDF. The Kerala Congress (Joseph) tied up with the Kerala Congress led by P. C. Thomas and contested the elections as Kerala Congress for the UDF. Kerala Congress lost in eight of the ten seats they contested, including Changanassery. The incumbent seat holding Kerala Congress (M) won the seat.

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Changanassery

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KC(M)	Adv. Job Maichil	55,425	44.85	4.81
	KEC	V. J. Laly	49,366	39.94	−
	BJP	Ad. G Raman Nair	14491	11.73	5.33
	Independent	Tijo Karikkanadam	1094	0.89	−
	BSP	Amruth Dev T	1,079	0.87	0.33
	SDPI	M. K. Nizamuddin	1,075	0.87	0.56
	NOTA	None of the Above	434	0.35	0.1
	SUCI(C)	Rejitha Jayaram	328	0.27	0.02
	Independent	Joemon Joseph Srampickal	157	0.13	−
	Independent	Babychen Mukkadan	136	0.11	−
Margin of victory			6,059	4.91	3.44
Turnout			1,23,585	70.23	5.02
	KC(M) hold		Swing

2016

There were 1,67,180 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Changanassery

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KC(M)	C. F. Thomas	50,371	40.04	7.09
	JKC	K. C. Joseph	48,522	38.57	−
	BJP	Ettumanoor Radhakrishnan	21,455	17.06	11.26
	SDPI	Althaph Hassan	1,797	1.43	0.59
	Independent	Sojan Paviyanose	1,050	0.83	−
	BSP	Raji Rajan	676	0.54	0.44
	Independent	Suresh K.	596	0.47	−
	NOTA	None of the above	571	0.45	−
	SUCI(C)	K .N. Rajan	312	0.25	0.01
	Kerala Congress (Secular)	Babu Varghese	292	0.23	−
	Independent	Kunjimon Abraham	151	0.12	−
Margin of victory			1,849	1.47	0.89
Turnout			1,25,793	75.24	2.68
	KC(M) hold		Swing	7.09

2011

There were 1,49,193 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[5]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Changanassery

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KC(M)	C. F. Thomas	51,019	47.13
	CPI(M)	B. Ekbal	48,465	44.77	−
	BJP	M. B. Rajagopal	6,281	5.80
	BSP	Mathews John	1,058	0.98	−
	SDPI	Mansoor	907	0.84	1.00
	SUCI(C)	K. Sadanandan	281	0.26	−
	Independent	Naseer K. M.	246	0.23
Margin of victory			2,554	2.36
Turnout			1,08,257	72.56
	KC(M) hold		Swing	-

See also

• Changanassery
• Kottayam district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election