Vamanapuram Assembly constituency

Vamanapuram
Vamanapuram
Constituency No. 131 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
LS constituency	Attingal
Established	1957 - present
Total electors	1,99,992 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent D. K. Murali
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2016

Vamanapuram 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 Attingal Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is D. K. Murali of CPI(M).

Local self governed segments

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

Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Anad	Grama panchayat	Nedumangad
2	Kallara	Grama panchayat	Nedumangad
3	Nanniyode	Grama panchayat	Nedumangad
4	Nellanad	Grama panchayat	Nedumangad
5	Panavoor	Grama panchayat	Nedumangad
6	Pangode	Grama panchayat	Nedumangad
7	Peringamala	Grama panchayat	Nedumangad
8	Pullampara	Grama panchayat	Nedumangad
9	Vamanapuram	Grama panchayat	Nedumangad

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

Key

INC CPI(M)

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party	Majority	Tenure
1967	3rd	N. V. Pillai	CPI(M)	7965	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	M. Kunjukrishna Pillai	INC	1817	1970 – 1977
1977	5th	N. Vasudevan Pillai	CPI(M)	2392	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	Koliyakode N. Krishna Nair		12060	1980 – 1982
1982	7th			1954	1982 – 1987
1987	8th			10116	1987 – 1991
1991	9th			1366	1991 – 1996
1996	10th	Pirappancode Murali		6386	1996 – 2001
2001	11th	Pirappancode Murali		1609	2001 – 2006
2006	12th	J. Arundathi		6509	2006 – 2011
2011	13th	Koliyakode N. Krishna Nair		2236	2011 – 2016
2016	14th	D. K. Murali		9596	2016 - 2021
2021	15th	D. K. Murali		10242	Incumbent

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

There were 1,97,254 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.^[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vamanapuram
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	D. K. Murali	65,848	46.56	0.05
	INC	T. Sarathchandra Prasad	56,252	39.77	4.93
	BDJS	R. V. Nikhil	13,956	9.87
	SDPI	Thachonam Nisamudeen	1,774	1.25	0.55
	BSP	Anil Paalode	901	0.64	0.06
	NOTA	None of the above	789	0.56
	Independent	Sugathan S.	517	0.37
	SS	G. Ajith	515	0.36
	Independent	Irincham Suresh	286	0.20	0.15
	API	Anil K. Pongadu	228	0.16
	Independent	Maniraj Bharathannoor	123	0.09
Margin of victory			9,596	6.79	4.98
Turnout			1,41,435	71.70	0.96
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	0.05

There were 1,74,408 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[5]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vamanapuram
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Koliakode N. Krishnan Nair	57,381	46.51
	INC	C. Mohanachandran	55,145	44.70
	BJP	Karette Sivaprasad	5,228	4.24
	SDPI	Pirappankode Shahjahan	2,225	1.80
	Independent	Seleena Prakkanam	1,613	1.31
	BSP	Sasi R. Cheraman	667	0.70
	Independent	Irinchayam Suresh	437	0.35
	Independent	Krishnan Nair	275	0.22
	Independent	Bharathannoor Balan	205	0.17
Margin of victory			2.236	1.81
Turnout			1,23,376	70.74
	CPI(M) hold		Swing