Kazhakootam Assembly constituency

Kazhakootam
Kazhakootam
Constituency No. 132 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Technopark at Kazhakootam is first and largest Information Technology park in India.
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
Established	1965
Total electors	1,81,771 (2016)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Kadakampally Surendran
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Kazhakootam is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies at the state Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is Kadakampally Surendran of CPI(M).

Members of Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:^[2]

Election	Niyama Sabha	Name		Tenure
1965	3rd	N. Lakshmanan	Indian National Congress	dismissed
1967	3rd	M. H. Sahib	Indian Union Muslim League	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	P. Neelakandan	Samyukta Socialist Party	1970 – 1977
1977	5th	Thalekunnil Basheer	Indian National Congress	1977
1977	5th	A.K. Antony	Indian National Congress	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	M. M. Hassan	Indian National Congress	1980 – 1982
1982	7th	M. M. Hassan	Independent	1982 – 1987
1987	8th	Nabeesa Ummal	Independent	1987 – 1991
1991	9th	M. V. Raghavan	Communist Marxist Party	1991 – 1996
1996	10th	Kadakampally Surendran	Communist Party of India	1996 – 2001
2001	11th	M. A. Vaheed	Independent	2001 – 2006
2006	12th		Indian National Congress	2006 – 2011
2011	13th		Indian National Congress	2011 – 2016
2016	14th	Kadakampally Surendran	Communist Party of India	2016 - 2021
2021	15th	Kadakampally Surendran	Communist Party of India	Incumbent

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

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kazhakootam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Kadakampally Surendran	63,690	46.04	9.48
	BJP	Shobha Surendran	40,193	29.06	2.84
	INC	S.S Lal	33,995	23.85	4.97
	NOTA	None of the above	668	0.48
	BSP	Kochumani	1899	0.27	1.12
	Independent	V. Sasikumaran Nair	199	0.09
	Independent	Lalumon	22	0.08
	Independent	Syamlal	21	0.06
	Independent	Adv. Sen A. G.	20	0.05
Margin of victory			23,497	17.0
Turnout			420
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

There were 1,81,771 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.^[3]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kazhakootam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Kadakampally Surendran	50,079	37.38	7.00
	BJP	V. Muraleedharan	42,732	31.90	25.04
	INC	M. A. Vaheed	38,602	28.82	17.56
	NOTA	None of the above	822	0.61
	BSP	Kochumani	496	0.37	0.25
	Independent	N. A. Vahid	412	0.31
	Independent	Aneesh	370	0.28
	Independent	Surendran Pillai	108	0.08
	Independent	Manimekhala	84	0.06	0.15
	Independent	Sasikala	83	0.06
	Independent	Murukan A.	59	0.04
	Independent	Muraleedharan	58	0.04
	Independent	Prasad P.	54	0.04
Margin of victory			7,347	5.48
Turnout			1,33,959	73.70	6.61
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing

There were 1,63,199 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[4]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kazhakootam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	M. A. Vaheed	50,787	46.38
	CPI(M)	C. Ajayakumar	48,591	44.38
	BJP	Padmakumar	7,508	6.86
	Independent	M. Wahid	986	0.90
	BSP	K. Bhuvanendran Chettiyar	678	0.62
	SDPI	M. A. Jaleel	418	0.38
	Independent	Sudarshanan S.	325	0.30
	Independent	K. Ajithkumar	205	0.19
Margin of victory			2,196	2.00
Turnout			23	67.09
	INC hold		Swing

There were 86,434 registered voters in the constituency for the 1977 election.

1977 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kazhakootam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	A.K. Antony	38,463	55.33
	Communist Party of India (Marxist) - Independent	P. Sreedharan Nair	29,794	42.86
Margin of victory			8669	12.47
Turnout			69,504	80.41
	INC hold		Swing