Varkala Assembly constituency

Varkala 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 Attingal Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 Assembly elections, the current MLA is V. Joy of CPI(M).

Varkala
Constituency No. 127 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
Lok Sabha constituency	Attingal
Established	1957
Total electors	1,87,646 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent V. Joy
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Local self-governed segments

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

Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Varkala	Municipality	Varkala
2	Chemmaruthy	Grama panchayat	Varkala
3	Edava	Grama panchayat	Varkala
4	Elakamon	Grama panchayat	Varkala
5	Madavoor	Grama panchayat	Varkala
6	Navaikulam	Grama panchayat	Varkala
7	Pallickal	Grama panchayat	Varkala
8	Vettoor	Grama panchayat	Varkala

Members of Legislative Assembly

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

Election	Member	Party
1957	T. Abdul Majeed		Communist Party of India
	K. Sivadasan
1960	Balakrishnan
	Shamsuddin		Indian National Congress
1967	T. Abdul Majeed		Communist Party of India
1970
1977
1980	Varkala Radhakrishnan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1982
1987
1991
1996	A. Ali Hassan
2001	Varkala Kahar		Indian National Congress
2006
2011
2016	V. Joy		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2021

Election results

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

2021

There were 1,87,646 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 election.^[3][4]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Varkala

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. Joy	68,816	50.89	9.46
	INC	Adv. BRM Shafeer	50,995	37.71	1.86
	BDJS	Aji S	11,214	8.29	7.21
	BSP	Anu M.C	1,948	1.44	0.03
	NOTA	None of the above	815	0.6	0.11
	Independent	Prince	658	0.49
	Democratic Human Rights Movement Party	Anilkumar P	460	0.34
	Independent	Shefeer	323	0.24
Margin of victory			17,821	13.18	11.32
Turnout			1,35,229	72.06	0.52
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	9.46

2016

There were 1,79,160 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.^[5]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Varkala

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. Joy	53,102	41.43	1.25
	INC	Varkala Kahar	50,716	39.57	12.83
	BDJS	Aji S. R. M.	19,872	15.50
	BSP	Varkala P. Linees	1,888	1.47
	NOTA	None of the above	628	0.49
	SDPI	Abdul Salam	466	0.36	0.36
	Independent	Sunil Kumar S.	357	0.28
	Independent	Sudevan	351	0.27
	PDP	Nadayara Jabbar	297	0.23
	Independent	Bhasidharan Nair	138	0.11
	Independent	Salu R.	135	0.11
	Independent	Varkala Sabesan	126	0.10
	Independent	Vivekanandan	101	0.08
Margin of victory			2,386	1.86
Turnout			1,28,177	71.54	1.01
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing

2011

There were 1,51,930 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[6]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Varkala

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Varkala Kahar	57,775	52.40
	CPI(M)	A.A RAHEEM	47,045	42.68
	BJP	Elakaman Satheesan	3,430	3.11
	Independent	Cherunniyoor Ganesh	927	0.84
	SDPI	Kunnil Shahjahan	795	0.72
	Independent	Aneesh Kumar	275	0.25
Margin of victory			10,710	9.72
Turnout			1,10,227	72.55
	INC hold		Swing

2006

2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Varkala

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Varkala Kahar	44,883	48.78
	CPI(M)	S Sundaresan	43,258	47.01
Margin of victory			1,625	1.77
Turnout			92,002
	INC hold		Swing

2001

2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Varkala

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Varkala Kahar	45,315	48.90
	CPI(M)	P K Gurudasan	43,327	46.75
Margin of victory			1,988	2.15
Turnout			92,678	66.94
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

See also

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