Vengara Assembly constituency

Vengara 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 Malappuram Lok Sabha constituency.^[2] As of the 2021 Assembly elections, the current MLA is P. K. Kunhalikutty of IUML.

Vengara
Constituency No. 41 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Kooriyad field in Vengara
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Malappuram
Established	2008
Total electors	1,85,356 (2021)[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent P. K. Kunhalikutty
Party	Indian Union Muslim League
Alliance	UDF
Elected year	2021

Local self-governed segments

Vengara Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:^[3]

Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Vengara	Grama panchayat	Tirurangadi
2	Abdu Rahiman Nagar	Grama panchayat	Tirurangadi
3	Kannamangalam	Grama panchayat	Tirurangadi
4	Oorakam	Grama panchayat	Tirurangadi
5	Parappur	Grama panchayat	Tirurangadi
6	Othukkungal	Grama panchayat	Tirurangadi

Vengara Assembly constituency

Members of Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented Vengara Assembly constituency during the period of various assemblies:^[4]

Key

  IUML

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
2011	13th	P. K. Kunhalikutty	IUML		2011 – 2016
2016	14th				2016 - 2017
2017*		K. N. A. Khader			2017 - 2021
2021	15th	P. K. Kunhalikutty			Incumbent

*by-election

Election results

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

2021

There were 1,85,356 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.^[1]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vengara^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	IUML	P. K. Kunhalikutty	70,381	53.50%	0.31
	CPI(M)	P. Jiji	39,785	30.24%	3.94
	Independent	Sabah Kundupuzhakkal	11,255	8.56%	8.56
	BJP	Preman Master	5,968	4.54%	0.13
	WPOI	E. K. Kunhahammed Kutty Master	2,051	1.56%	1.56
	BSP	Keeran	1,060	0.81%	0.81
	NOTA	None of the above	787	0.60%	0.19
	DSJP	Ananyakumari Alex	135	0.10%	0.10
	Independent	Adil Abdurahman Thangal	129	0.10%	0.10
Margin of victory			30,596	23.26%	4.25
Turnout			1,31,551[5][1]	70.97%[1]	1.16
	IUML hold		Swing	0.31

2017 by-election

Vengara Assembly constituency held a by-election due to the election of the sitting MLA P. K. Kunhalikutty into the Indian Lok Sabha in 2017.^[6] There were 1,70,006 registered voters for the subsequent by-election.

2017 Kerala Legislative Assembly By-election: Vengara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	IUML	K. N. A. Khader	65,227	53.19%	6.82%
	CPI(M)	Adv. P. P. Basheer	41,917	34.18%	5.81%
	SDPI	Adv. K. C. Naseer	8,648	7.05%	4.51%
	BJP	K. Janachandran Master	5,728	4.67%	1.20%
	NOTA	None of the above	502	0.41%	0.03%
	Independent	Adv. Hamza Karumannil	442	0.36%	N/A
	Independent	Sreenivas	159	0.13%	N/A
Margin of victory			23,310	19.01%	12.63%
Turnout			1,22,623	72.13%	1.23
	IUML hold		Swing	6.82%

2016

There were 1,69,639 registered voters in Vengara Assembly constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[7]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vengara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	IUML	P. K. Kunhalikutty	72,181	60.01%	3.43
	CPI(M)	Adv. P. P. Basheer	34,124	28.37%	3.35
	BJP	P. T. Ali Haji	7,055	5.87%	2.44
	SDPI	Kallen Aboobacker Master	3,049	2.54%	2.17
	WPOI	Surendran Karippuzha	1,864	1.55%	−
	PDP	Subair Swabahi	1,472	1.22%	−
	NOTA	None of the above	531	0.44%	−
Margin of victory			38,057	31.64%	6.78
Turnout			1,20,276	70.90%	1.93
	IUML hold		Swing	3.43

2011

There were 1,44,317 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[8]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vengara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	IUML	P. K. Kunhalikutty	63,138	63.44%
	INL	K. P. Ismayil	24,901	25.02%
	SDPI	Abduil Majeed Faizi	4,683	4.71%
	BJP	Subrahmanian	3,417	3.43%
	Independent	K. P. Ismayil (Kalluparamban)	1,615	1.62%
	Independent	Kunhalikutty K. P.	1,079	1.08%
	BSP	Safarudeen	405	0.41%
	Independent	Ismayil K. T.	292	0.29%
Margin of victory			38,237	38.42%
Turnout			99,530	68.97%
	IUML win (new seat)

See also

• Vengara
• Malappuram district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election