Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency

Vattiyoorkavu State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala. 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 V. K. Prasanth of CPI(M).

Vattiyoorkavu
Constituency No. 133 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Kowdiar Palace at Kowdiar ward of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation in Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
Established	2008
Total electors	2,08,579 (2022)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent V. K. Prasanth
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2019

Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency was established by 2008 delimitation. Before, it used to be known as Trivandrum North Assembly constituency from 1977 to 2008, and Trivandrum-II Assembly constituency from 1957 to 1977.

Local self-governed segments

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

Sl no.	Name	Wards	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality/Municipal Corporation)	Taluk
1	Thiruvananthapuram	24 wards	Municipal Corporation	Thiruvananthapuram

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Trivandrum-II

Election	Member	Party
1957	Pattom Thanu Pillai		Praja Socialist Party
1960
1967	K. C. Vamadevan		Independent
1970	K. Pankajakshan		Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)

Trivandrum North

Election	Member	Party
1977	K. Ravindran Nair		Independent
1980	K. Anirudhan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1982	G. Karthikeyan		Indian National Congress
1987	M. Vijayakumar		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991
1996
2001	K. Mohankumar		Indian National Congress
2006	M. Vijayakumar		Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Vattiyoorkavu

Election	Member	Party
2011	K. Muraleedharan		Indian National Congress
2016
2019*	V. K. Prasanth		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2021

*by-election

Election results

2021

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

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vattiyoorkavu

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. K. Prasanth	61,111	44.40	0.15
	BJP	V. V. Rajesh	39,596	28.77	6.61
	INC	Veena S. Nair	35,655	25.76	6.82
	NOTA	None of the above	109	0.62	0.04
Margin of victory			21,515	15.63	3.96
Turnout			1,37,636
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	0.15

2019 by-election

Due to the election of the sitting MLA K. Muraleedharan as the MP from Vatakara Lok Sabha constituency, Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency held a by-election in 2019. There were 1,97,570 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency for this election.^[4] V. K. Prashanth won by 14,465 votes in the subsequent election conducted in October 2019.^[5]

2019 Kerala Legislative Assembly by-elections: Vattiyoorkavu

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. K. Prasanth	54,830	44.25%	14.46
	INC	K. Mohankumar	40,365	32.58%	5.23
	BJP	S. Suresh	27,453	22.16%	10.03
	NOTA	None of the Above	820	0.66%	0.06
	Independent	A.Mohanakumar	135	0.11%	N/A
	Independent	Nagaraj G.	100	0.08%	N/A
	Independent	Suresh S. S.	93	0.08%	N/A
	Independent	Murukan A.	76	0.06%	N/A
	Independent	Mithran G.	38	0.03%	N/A
Majority			14,465	11.67%	6.06
Turnout			1,23,910	62.66%	7.17
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing	14.46

2016

There were 1,95,239 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency for the 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election.^[6]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vattiyoorkavu

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	K. Muraleedharan	51,322	37.81	12.38
	BJP	Kummanam Rajasekharan	43,700	32.19	20.21
	CPI(M)	T. N. Seema	40,441	29.79	6.05
	BSP	Mekkansi K. John	399	0.29	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	816	0.60	N/A
	Independent	Binu D.	147	0.11
	Independent	Sahadevan	104	0.08
	Independent	K. G. Mohanan	77	0.06
	Independent	Baby D.	53	0.04
	Independent	Saju Ameerdas	48	0.04
Majority			7,622	5.56	8.79
Turnout			1,37,108	70.23	6.01
	INC hold		Swing	12.38

2011

There were 1,75,398 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[7]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vattiyoorkavu

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	K. Muraleedharan	56,531	50.19
	Independent	Cheriyan Phillip	40,364	35.84
	BJP	V. V. Rajesh	13,494	11.98
	BSP	Kaithakodu Radhakrishnan	915	0.81
	Independent	Cheriyan P. T.	551	0.49
	Independent	Rajan K.	488	0.08
	Independent	G. Balakrishnan Nair	294	0.26
Majority			16,167	14.35
Turnout			1,12,637	64.22
	INC win (new seat)

See also

• Vattiyoorkavu
• Thiruvananthapuram district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election
• 2019 Kerala Legislative Assembly by-elections