Nenmara Assembly constituency

Nenmara 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 Alathur Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election, the current MLA is K. Babu of CPI(M).

Nenmara
Constituency No. 59 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Top to bottom: Sitharkundu viewpoint at Nelliampathi, Puthunagaram Town
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Palakkad
Lok Sabha constituency	Alathur
Established	2008
Total electors	1,92,592 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent K. Babu
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Local self-governed segments

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

Sl no.	Name	Status (grama panchayat/municipality)	Taluk
1	Elavanchery	Grama panchayat	Chittur
2	Koduvayur	Grama panchayat	Chittur
3	Kollengode	Grama Panchayat	Chittur
4	Muthalamada	Grama panchayat	Chittur
5	Nelliampathi	Grama panchayat	Chittur
6	Nenmara	Grama panchayat	Chittur
7	Pallassana	Grama panchayat	Chittur
8	Ayiloor	Grama panchayat	Chittur
9	Puthunagaram	Grama panchayat	Chittur
10	Vadavannur	Grama panchayat	Chittur

Members of Legislative Assembly

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

Election	Niyama Sabha	Name	Party		Tenure
2011	13th	V. Chenthamarakshan		Communist Party of India	2011 – 2016
2016	14th	K. Babu			2016-2021
2021	15th				Incumbent

Election results

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

2021

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Nenmara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	K. Babu	80,145	52.89%	9.99%
	CMP	C.N.Vijayakrishnan	51,441	33.95%	−
	BDJS	Anurag .A.N	16,666	11.00%	−
	BSP	Prakash.C	1,350	0.89%	−
	Independent	Babu S/o Kunchu	863	0.57%	−
Margin of victory			28,704	18.94%	14.15%
Turnout			1,51,535
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	9.99%

2016

There were 1,90,765 registered voters in Nenmara Constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Nenmara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	K. Babu	66,316	42.90%	4.96
	INC	A. V. Gopinathan	58,908	38.11%	−
	BJP	N. Sivarajan	23,096	14.94%	8.14
	AIADMK	Menaka K.	2,186	1.41%	0.76
	NOTA	None of the above	1,053	0.68%	−
	WPOI	Ajith Kumar	772	0.50%	−
	SDPI	Sakkir Hussain S.	487	0.32%	1.03
	Independent	Mohandasan	461	0.30%	−
	Independent	Babu Chathan	324	0.21%	−
	Independent	Babu Kumaran	239	0.15%	−
	Independent	Babu Thathakutty	233	0.15%	−
	Independent	Babu Vasu	204	0.13%	−
	SS	M. Vinod	168	0.11%	−
	Independent	M. B. Gopinathan	131	0.08%	−
Margin of victory			7,408	4.79%	1.69%
Turnout			1,54,578	81.03%	3.11%
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	4.96%

2011

There were 1,72,069 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[5]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Nenmara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. Chethamarakshan	64,169	47.86%
	CMP	M. V. Raghavan	55,475	41.38%
	BJP	N. Sivarajan	9,123	6.80%
	SDPI	Sakeer Hussain	1,809	1.41%
	BSP	Chandran	1,484	1.11%
	AIADMK	Sugunan S.	1,279	0.95%
	CPI(ML)L	Joy Peter T.	735	0.55%
Margin of victory			8,694	6.48%
Turnout			1,34,074	77.92%
	CPI(M) win (new seat)

See also

• Nenmara
• Palakkad district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election