Neyyattinkara Assembly constituency

Neyyattinkara 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 Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 Assembly elections, the current MLA is K. Ansalan of CPI(M).

Neyyattinkara
Constituency No. 140 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
Established	1957
Total electors	1,86,705 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent K. Ansalan
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Local self-governed segments

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

Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Neyyattinkara	Municipality	Neyyattinkara
2	Athiyannur	Grama panchayat	Neyyattinkara
3	Chenkal	Grama panchayat	Neyyattinkara
4	Karode	Grama panchayat	Neyyattinkara
5	Kulathoor	Grama panchayat	Neyyattinkara
6	Thirupuram	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
1957	Ottasekharamangalam Janardhanan Nair		Communist Party of India
1960	P. Narayanan Thampi		Praja Socialist Party
1967	R. G. Nair		Indian National Congress
1970	R. Parameshwaran Pillai		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1977	R. Sundareshwaran Nair		Independent
1980
1982	S. R. Thankaraj		Janata Party
1987
1991	Thampanoor Ravi		Indian National Congress
1996
2001
2006	V. J. Thankappan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2011	R. Selvaraj
2012^			Indian National Congress
2016	K. Ansalan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2021

Election results

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

2021

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Neyyatinkara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	K. Ansalan	65,497	47.02	0.18
	INC	R. Selvaraj	51,235	36.78	3.34
	BJP	Rajasekharan S Nair	21,009	15.08	7.55
	NOTA	None of the above	907	0.65
Margin of victory			14,642	10.24	3.16
Turnout
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

2016

There were 1,78,942 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Neyyatinkara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	K. Ansalan	62,113	47.20	12.06
	INC	R. Selvaraj	59,016	40.12	6.16
	BJP	Punchakiri Surendran	15,531	11.53	11.68
	NOTA	None of the above	693	0.51
	BSP	Prabhakaran	566	0.42
	Independent	Anilkumar	280	0.21
Margin of victory			9,543	7.08
Turnout			1,34,645	75.25	4.48
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing

2012 by-election

Due to the resignation of sitting CPI(M) MLA R. Selvaraj, Neyyatinkara Assembly constituency held a by-election on June 6, 2012. There were 1,64,856 registered voters in the constituency for this election. R. Selvaraj, now contesting for INC, won the election by a margin of 6,334 votes.^[5]

2012 by election: Neyyatinkara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	R. Selvaraj	52,528	39.96	3.02
	CPI(M)	F. Lawrence	46,194	35.14	13.84
	BJP	O. Rajagopal	30,507	23.21	17.18
Margin of victory			6,334	4.82
Turnout			1,34,645	79.73	8.97
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2011

There were 1,57,851 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[6]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Neyyatinkara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	R. Selvaraj	54,711	48.98
	INC	Thampanoor Ravi	48,009	42.98
	BJP	Athiyannoor Sreekumar	6,730	6.03
Margin of victory			6,702	6.00
Turnout			1,11,698	70.76
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

2006

2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Neyyatinkara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V J Thankappan	50,351	47.31
	INC	Thampanoor Ravi	49,605	46.61
Margin of victory			746	0.70
Turnout			1,06,415
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing

2001

2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Neyyatinkara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Thampanoor Ravi	56,305	50.0
	JD(S)	S B Rosechandran	49,830	44.3
Margin of victory			6,475	5.7
Turnout			1,12,607	67.2
	INC hold		Swing

1996

1996 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Neyyatinkara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Thampanoor Ravi	50,924	49.39
	JD	Charupara Ravi	36,500	35.39
Margin of victory			14,424	14
Turnout			1,03,132	67.48
	INC hold		Swing

1991

1991 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Neyyatinkara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Thampanoor Ravi	49,106	47.05
	JD	S R Thankaraj	47,042	45.15
Margin of victory			1,974	1.90
Turnout			1,04,187	72.26
	INC gain from JD		Swing

See also

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