Kattakada Assembly constituency

Kattakada 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 I. B. Satheesh of CPI(M).

Kattakada
Constituency No. 138 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Kattakada Bus Terminal and Shopping Complex
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
Lok Sabha constituency	Attingal
Established	2008
Total electors	1,95,827 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent I. B. Satheesh
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Local self-governed segments

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

Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Kattakada	Grama panchayat	Kattakada
2	Malayinkeezhu	Grama panchayat	Kattakada
3	Maranalloor	Grama panchayat	Kattakada
4	Vilappil	Grama panchayat	Kattakada
5	Vilavoorkkal	Grama panchayat	Kattakada
6	Pallichal	Grama panchayat	Neyyattinkara

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Election	Name	Party
2011	N. Shakthan		Indian National Congress
2016	I. B. Sathish		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2021

Election results

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

2021

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kattakada

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	I. B. Sathish	66,293	45.52
	INC	Malayainkeezhu Venugopal	43,062	29.57
	BJP	P. K. Krishnadas	34,542	23.72
	NOTA	None of the above	699	0.48
Margin of victory			23,231	15.55	14.96
Turnout			1,45,619	74.36	2.29
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

2016

There were 1,87,392 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kattakada

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	I. B. Satheesh	51,614	35.93
	INC	N. Shakthan	50,765	35.34	9.29
	BJP	P. K. Krishnadas	38,700	26.94	7.72
	NOTA	None of the above	732	0.51
	BSP	Biju S. R.	709	0.49	0.62
	SDPI	Ashraf Pravachambalam	627	0.44	0.08
	SUCI(C)	S. Mini	295	0.21
	Independent	K. Sasikumar	192	0.13
Margin of victory			849	0.59
Turnout			1,43,634	76.65	6.09
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing

2011

There were 1,66,306 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[5]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kattakada

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	N. Shakthan	52,368	44.63
	Independent	M. V. Jayadali	39,452	33.62
	BJP	P. K. Krishnadas	22,550	19.22
	BSP	Vengode Sunil Kumar	1,303	1.11
	SDPI	Kattakada Rajan	613	0.52
	Independent	S. Sujithra	586	0.50
	Independent	Malayankeezh Rajesh	475	0.40
Margin of victory			12,916	11.01
Turnout			1,17,347	70.56
	INC win (new seat)

See also

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