Karunagappally Assembly constituency

Karunagappally 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 Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is C. R. Mahesh of Indian National Congress.

Karunagappally
Constituency No. 116 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Karunagappally town in Karunagappally Assembly constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kollam
Lok Sabha constituency	Alappuzha
Established	1957
Total electors	2,13,993 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent C. R. Mahesh
Party	INC
Alliance	UDF
Elected year	2021

Structure

Karunagappally Assembly constituency was formed in 1951. As per the recent changes on Assembly constituency delimitations, the Assembly constituency consists of Karunagappally municipality and six panchayaths from Karunagappally taluk including Alappad, Clappana, Kulasekharapuram, Oachira, Thazhava and Thodiyoor.^[2]

Major institutions in the constituency

• Municipality: 1 (Karunagappally)
• Panchayaths: 6 (Alappad, Clappana, Kulasekharapuram, Oachira, Thazhava and Thodiyoor)
• Railway stations: 2 (Karunagappalli, Oachira)
• Government hospitals: 4 (Chest Disease Hospital (TB) in Karunagappally, Govt. Taluk Hospital in Karunagappally, Community Health Center in Mynagapally, Community Health Center in Ochira)

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Election	Niyama Sabha	Name	Party		Tenure
1957	1st	P. Kunjukrishnan		Indian National Congress	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd	Baby John		Independent	1960 – 1965
1967	3rd				1967 – 1970
1970	4th			Revolutionary Socialist Party	1970 – 1977
1977	5th	B. M. Sheriff		Communist Party of India	1977 – 1980
1980	6th				1980 – 1982
1982	7th	T. V. Vijayarajan		Independent	1982 – 1987
1987	8th	P. S. Sreenivasan		Communist Party of India	1987 – 1991
1991	9th				1991 – 1996
1996	10th	E. Chandrasekharan Nair			1996 – 2001
2001	11th	A. N. Rajan Babu		Janathipathiya Samrakshana Samithy	2001 – 2006
2006	12th	C. Divakaran		Communist Party of India	2006 – 2011
2011	13th				2011 – 2016
2016	14th	R. Ramachandran		Communist Party of India	2016 - 2021
2021	15th	C. R. Mahesh		Indian National Congress	Incumbent

Election results

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

2021

There were 2,13,993 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Karunagappally

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	C. R. Mahesh	94,225	54.38	12.41
	CPI	R. Ramachandran	65,017	37.52	5.54
	BJP	Bitty Sudheer	12,144	7.01
	NOTA	None of the above	450	0.26
Margin of victory			29,208	16.68	15.59
Turnout			1,73,284	80.97	1.60
	INC gain from CPI		Swing

2016

There were 2,04,539 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[3]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Karunagappally

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	R. Ramachandran	69,902	43.06	7.07
	INC	C. R. Mahesh	68,143	41.97	2.38
	BDJS	V. Sadasivan	19,115	11.77
	SDPI	A. K. Salahudeen	1,737	1.07	4.48
	PDP	Mylakkadu Shah	1,620	1.00	−
	BSP	Gopalakrishnan	649	0.40
	Independent	Ramachandran	594	0.37
	NOTA	None of the above	590	0.36
Margin of victory			1,759	1.09	9.45
Turnout			1,62,351	79.37	3.86
	CPI hold		Swing	7.07

2011

There were 1,82,508 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[4]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Karunagappally

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	C. Divakaran	69,086	50.13
	JSS	A. N. Rajanbabu	54,564	39.59
	SDPI	Nazarudeen Elamaram	7,645	5.55
	BJP	Malumel Sumesh	5,097	3.70
	Independent	P. D. Sudheer	868	0.63	−
	SUCI(C)	Twinkle Prabhakaran	547	0.40
Margin of victory			14,522	10.54
Turnout			1,37,807	75.51
	CPI hold		Swing