Thrissur Assembly constituency

Thrissur
Thrissur
Constituency No. 67 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Government Engineering College, Thrissur, the second-oldest Govt. Engineering College in the state.
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thrissur
Established	1957 - present
Total electors	1,72,358 (2016)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent P. Balachandran
Party	CPI
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Thrissur is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Thrissur Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is P. Balachandran of CPI.

Local self-governed segments

Thrissur Niyama Sabha constituency is composed of the following 41 wards of the Thrissur Municipal Corporation:^[2]

Ward no.	Name	Ward no.	Name	Ward no.	Name
1	Punkunnam	2	Kuttankulangara	3	Patturaikkal
4	Viyyoor	5	Peringavu	6	Ramavarmapuram
7	Kuttumukku	8	Villadam	9	Cherur
10	Mukkattukara	11	Gandhinagar	12	Chembukkavu
13	Kizhakkumpattukara	14	Paravattani	15	Ollukkara
16	Nettissery	19	Krishnapuram	20	Kalathodu
21	Nadathara	22	Chelakkottukara	23	Mission Quarters
27	Kuttanellur	33	Chiyyaram North	34	Kannamkulangara
35	Pallikulam	36	Thekkinkadu	37	Kottappuram
38	Poothole	39	Kokkala	40	Vadookkara
45	Karyattukara	46	Chettupuzha	47	Pullazhi
48	Olarikara	49	Elthuruth	50	Laloor
51	Aranattukara	52	Kanattukara	53	Ayyanthole
54	Civil Station	55	Puthurkkara

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

Key

Independent INC BLD NDP CPI CPI(M)

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party	Tenure
1957	1st	A. R. Menon	Ind.	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd	T. A. Dharmaja Iyer	INC	1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	K. Sekharan Nair	CPI(M)	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	Joseph Mundassery	Ind.	1970 - 1972
1972*	4th	P. A. Antony	INC	1972 - 1977
1977	5th	K. J. George	BLD	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	M. K. Kannan	CPI(M)	1980 – 1982
1982	7th	Therambil Ramakrishnan	NDP	1982 – 1987
1987	8th	E. K. Menon	CPI(M)	1987 – 1991
1991	9th	Therambil Ramakrishnan	INC	1991 – 1996
1996	10th			1996 – 2001
2001	11th			2001 – 2006
2006	12th			2006 – 2011
2011	13th			2011 – 2016
2016	14th	V. S. Sunil Kumar	CPI	2016 – 2021
2021	15th	P. Balachandran		2021- Present

* Bypoll

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Thrissur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	P. Balachandran	44,263	34.25	7.94
	INC	Padmaja Venugopal	43,317	33.52	3.18
	BJP	Suresh Gopi	40,457	31.30	11.84
	NOTA	None of the above	712	0.56
	Independent	Ajith Menon Ponnemkattil	252	0.19	−
	IGP	Thrissur Mukundan	225	0.17	0.11
Margin of victory			946	0.33	3.01
	CPI hold		Swing	7.94
Turnout			1,29,237	70.73	3.06

There were 1,72,358 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.^[3]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Thrissur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	V. S. Sunil Kumar	53,664	42.19	3.34
	INC	Padmaja Venugopal	46,677	36.70	16.49
	BJP	B. Gopalakrishnan	24,748	19.46	13.52
	NOTA	None of the above	1,128	0.89	−
	Independent	Anthony J. Maliakal	256	0.20	−
	SP	P. S. Unnikrishnan	226	0.18	−
	PDP	Raji Mani	154	0.12	−
	SUCI(C)	M. Pradeepan	111	0.09	−
	IGP	Santhakumari K. V.	74	0.06	−
Margin of victory			6,987	5.49	N/A
	CPI gain from INC		Swing	3.34
Turnout			1,27,191	73.79	4.12

There were 1,61,886 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[4]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Thrissur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Therambil Ramakrishnan	59,991	53.19
	CPI	P. Balachandran	43,822	38.85
	BJP	Ravikumar Uppath	6,697	5.94
	Independent	Therambil Radhakrishnan	1,405	1.25
	BSP	A. Jayaram	879	0.78
Margin of victory			16,169	14.34
	INC hold		Swing
Turnout			1,27,191	73.79