Ponnani Assembly constituency

Ponnani
Ponnani
Constituency No. 48 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Ponnani Lighthouse
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Malappuram
Established	1957 - present
Total electors	2,05,291 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent P. Nandakumar
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Ponnani State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Ponnani Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] Ponnani Assembly Constituency is located right in the middle of the Kerala coast. As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is P. Nandakumar of CPI(M).

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Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Ponnani	Municipality	Ponnani
2	Marancheri	Grama panchayat	Ponnani
3	Alamkode	Grama panchayat	Ponnani
4	Nannamukku	Grama panchayat	Ponnani
5	Perumbadappu	Grama panchayat	Ponnani
6	Veliyankode	Grama panchayat	Ponnani

Election	Niyama Sabha	Name		Tenure
1957	1st	K. Kunhambu	Indian National Congress	1957 – 1960
1957	1st	Kunhan Eliyath Tharayil	Communist Party of India	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd	V. P. C Thangal	Indian Union Muslim League	1960 – 1965
1960	2nd	K. Kunhambu	Indian National Congress	1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	V. P. C Thangal	Indian Union Muslim League	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	Haji M. V. Hydros	Independent	1970 – 1977
1977	5th	M. P. Gangadharan	Indian National Congress	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	K. Sreedharan	Communist Party of India	1980 – 1982
1982	7th	M. P. Gangadharan	Indian National Congress	1982 – 1987
1987	8th	P. T. Mohana Krishnan	Indian National Congress	1987 – 1991
1991	9th	E. K. Imbichi Bava	Communist Party of India	1991 – 1996
1996	10th	Paloli Mohammed Kutty	Communist Party of India	1996 – 2001
2001	11th	M. P. Gangadharan	Indian National Congress	2001 – 2006
2006	12th	Paloli Mohammed Kutty	Communist Party of India	2006 – 2011
2011	13th	P. Sreeramakrishnan		2011 – 2016
2016	14th	P. Sreeramakrishnan		2016 - 2021
2021	15th	P. Nandakumar		Incumbent

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	P. Nandakumar	74,668	51.35	2.44
	INC	A.M Rohith	57,625	39.63	1.76
	BDJS	Subramannian Chunkappallii	7,419	5.10	−
	SDPI	Anvar Pazhanji	3,065	2.11	0.94
	WPOI	Ganesh Vaderi	1,863	1.28	0.16
	NOTA	None of the above	467	0.32	0.11
	Independent	Roshith M.P	168	0.12	−
	Independent	K.Sadanandan	147	0.1	−
Margin of victory			17,043	11.72	0.68
Turnout			1,45,422	70.83	3.48
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	2.44

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	P. Sreeramakrishnan	69,332	48.91	1.36
	INC	P. T. Ajay Mohan	53,692	37.87	6.30
	BJP	K. K. Surendran	11,662	8.23	3.54
	WPOI	M. M. Shakkir	2,048	1.44	−
	PDP	M. Moidunni Haji	1,857	1.31	−
	SDPI	Abdul Fathah	1,659	1.17	1.51
	NOTA	None of the above	604	0.43	−
	Independent	Sindhukumari P. S.	386	0.27	−
Margin of victory			15,640	11.04	7.66
Turnout			1,41,763	74.31	2.04
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	1.36

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	P. Sreeramakrishnan	57,615	47.55
	INC	P. T. Ajay Mohan	53,514	44.17
	BJP	V. T. Jayaprakash	5,680	4.69
	SDPI	Yahiya Koya Thangal	3,250	2.68
	Independent	Ajayan	1,099	0.91
Margin of victory			4,101	3.38
Turnout			1,21,158	76.35
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

Local self governed segments

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Ponnani^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	N. Gopala Menon	32,619	21.05	21.05
	CPI	E. T. Kunhan	28,665	18.50
	INC	K. C. Sankaran	25,519	16.47	16.47
	KMPP	A. C. Raman	20,599	13.29
		T. Mustafa	19,457	12.56
	Socialist	K. P. Koppan	11,924	7.70
	Socialist	Mohamad	9,668	6.24
	Independent	C. Uani	6,494	4.19
Margin of victory			3,954	2.55
Turnout			1,54,945	93.12
Registered electors			1,66,384
	INC win (new seat)