Quilandy Assembly constituency

Quilandy
Quilandy
Constituency No. 23 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Koyilandy Fishing Harbour
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kozhikode
Established	1957
Total electors	2,05,993 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Kanathil Jameela
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Quilandy State Assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in the southern Indian state of Kerala. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Vatakara Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is Kanathil Jameela of the CPI(M).

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Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Koyilandy	Municipality	Koyilandy
2	Payyoli	Municipality	Koyilandy
3	Chemancheri	Grama panchayat	Koyilandy
4	Chengottukavu	Grama Panchayat	Koyilandy
5	Moodadi	Grama panchayat	Koyilandy
6	Thikkodi	Grama panchayat	Koyilandy

Election	Niyama Sabha	Name		Tenure
1957	1st	Kunhiraman Nambiar	Praja Socialist Party	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd	Kunhiraman Nambiar	Praja Socialist Party	1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	P. K. Kidave	Samyukta Socialist Party	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	E. Narayanan Nambiar	Indian National Congress	1970 – 1977
1977	5th	E. Narayanan Nambiar	Indian National Congress	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	Manimangalath Kuttialy	Indian National Congress	1980 – 1982
1982	7th	Manimangalath Kuttialy	Indian National Congress	1982 – 1987
1987	8th	M. T. Padma		1987 – 1991
1991	9th	M. T. Padma		1991 – 1996
1996	10th	P. Vishwan	Communist Party of India	1996 – 2001
2001	11th	P. Sankaran	Indian National Congress	2001 – 2006
2006	12th	P. Vishwan	Communist Party of India	2006 – 2011
2011	13th	K. Dasan		2011 – 2016
2016	14th	K. Dasan		2016-2021
2021	15th	Kanathil Jameela		Incumbent

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Kanathil Jameela	75,628	46.66	0.72
	INC	N. Subramanian	67,156	41.43	4.19
	BJP	N.P. Radhakrishnan	17,555	14.37	3.54
	SUCI(C)	Praveen Cheruvath	221	0.14	−
	Independent	Jameela. P.P.	651	0.4	−
	Independent	Subrahmanyan Kanaran	381	0.24	−
	NOTA	None of the above	492	0.3	−
Margin of victory			8472	5.23	3.47
Turnout			1,62,084	78.68	2.85
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	0.72

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	K. Dasan	70,593	45.94	1.26
	INC	N. Subramanian	57,224	37.24	6.92
	BJP	K. Rajinesh Babu	22,087	14.37	8.44
	SDPI	Ismayil Kammana	798	0.52	−
	PDP	Rasal M. K.	703	0.46	−
	BSP	Parappil Balakrishnan	678	0.44	0.10
	NOTA	None of the above	653	0.42	−
	Independent	M. N. Subramanian Kakkudumbil Meethal	489	0.32	−
	Independent	P. K. Dasan Pazhunthum Koottathil	167	0.11	−
	SUCI(C)	P. M. Sreekumar	149	0.10	−
	CPI(M)	P. M. Kunhiraman	126	0.08	−
Margin of victory			13,369	8.70	5.66
Turnout			1,53,667	81.53	0.32
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	1.26

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	K. Dasan	64,374	47.20
	INC	K.P. Anil Kumar	60,235	44.16
	BJP	T. P. Jayachandran	8,086	5.93
	Independent	C. Muneer	985	0.72
	SDPI	Rashid P. T.	985	0.72
	Independent	K. P. Anil Kumar	520	0.38
	BSP	K. V. Krishnan Koduvayal	466	0.34
	Independent	Dasan M. K.	418	0.31
	Independent	Dasan V. K.	325	0.24
Margin of victory			4,139	3.04
Turnout			1,36,394	81.85
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

Local self-governed segments

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Quilandy^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KMPP	Kunhriramakurup Chemmaratha	22,699	46.64%
	INC	Vasudevan Nair, Anantapuram Patinhare Madam	15,107	31.04%	31.04%
	Independent	Padamanabhan Poozhikunath	10,863	22.32%
Margin of victory			7,592	15.60%
Turnout			48,669	70.44%
Registered electors			69,088
	KMPP win (new seat)