Parassala Assembly constituency

Parassala
Parassala
Constituency No. 137 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
Established	1957
Total electors	2,19,131 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent C. K. Hareendran
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Parassala 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 C. K. Hareendran of CPI(M).

Local self governed segments

Parassala Niyamasabha constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments:^[2]

Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Kollayil	Grama panchayat	Neyyattinkara
2	Kunnathukal	Grama panchayat	Neyyattinkara
3	Parassala	Grama panchayat	Neyyattinkara
4	Perumkadavila	Grama panchayat	Neyyattinkara
5	Vellarada	Grama panchayat	Neyyattinkara
6	Amboori	Grama panchayat	Kattakada
7	Aryancode	Grama panchayat	Kattakada
8	Kallikkad	Grama panchayat	Kattakada
9	Ottasekharamangalam	Grama panchayat	Kattakada

The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:^[3]

Election	Niyama Sabha	Name		Tenure
1957	1st	M. Kunjukrishnan Nadar	Indian National Congress	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd	M. Kunjukrishnan Nadar	Independent	1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	N. Gamaliel	Indian National Congress	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	M. Sathyaneshan	Communist Party of India	1970 – 1977
1977	5th	M. Kunjukrishnan Nadar	Indian National Congress	1977 – 1979
1979*	5th	M. Sathyaneshan	Communist Party of India	1979 – 1980
1980	6th	N Sundaran Nadar	Indian National Congress	1980 – 1982
1982	7th	N Sundaran Nadar	Indian National Congress	1982 – 1987
1987	8th	M. Sathyaneshan	Communist Party of India	1987 – 1991
1991	9th	M. R. Raghu Chandra Bal	Indian National Congress	1991 – 1996
1996	10th	N Sundaran Nadar	Independent	1996 – 2001
2001	11th	N Sundaran Nadar	Indian National Congress	2001 – 2006
2006	12th	R. Selvaraj	Communist Party of India	2006 – 2011
2011	13th	A. T. George	Indian National Congress	2011 – 2016
2016	14th	C. K. Hareendran	Communist Party of India	2016 - 2021
2021	15th	C. K. Hareendran	Communist Party of India	Incumbent

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

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Parassala
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	C. K. Hareendran	78,548	48.16	3.75
	INC	Ansajitha Russal	52,720	32.33	0.33
	BJP	Karamana Jayan	29,850	18.3	2.61
	NOTA	None of the above	630	0.49
Margin of victory			25,828
Turnout			1,63,090
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

There were 2,10,162 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.^[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Parassala
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	C. K. Hareendran	70,516	44.41	0.02
	INC	A. T. George	51,590	32.66	12.14
	BJP	Karamana Jayan	33,028	20.91	13.28
Margin of victory			18,566	11.75
Turnout			1,57,980	75.17	3.42
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing

There were 1,88,442 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[5]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Parassala
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	A. T. George	60,578	44.80
	CPI(M)	Anavoor Nagappan	60,073	44.43
	BJP	S. Suresh	10,310	7.63
	BSP	J. Sudhakaran	2,269	1.68
	Independent	T. K. Viswambharan	1,207	0.89
Margin of victory			505	0.37
Turnout			1,35,211	71.75	6.61
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Parassala
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	R. Selvaraj	49,297	50.37
	INC	N Sundaran Nadar	44,890	45.87
Margin of victory			4,407	4.50
Turnout			97,859
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing

2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Parassala
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	N Sundaran Nadar	55,915	53.18
	CPI(M)	R. Selvaraj	44,365	42.18
Margin of victory			11,550	11
Turnout			1,05,156	65.82
	INC gain from Independent		Swing

1996 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Parassala
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	N Sundaran Nadar	36,297	37.9
	CPI(M)	W R Heeba	31,570	33.0
	INC	M R Reghuchandrabal	19,264	20.1
Margin of victory			4,727	4.9
Turnout			95,663	64.84
	Independent gain from INC		Swing

1991 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Parassala
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	M R Reghuchandrabal	48,423	49.44
	CPI(M)	M Sathyanesan	40,788	41.64
Margin of victory			7,635	7.80
Turnout			97,950	70.42
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing