Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency

Vattiyoorkavu
Constituency No. 133 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Kowdiar Palace at Kowdiar ward of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation in Vattiyoorkavu Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
Established	2011
Total electors	2,08,579 (2022)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent V. K. Prasanth
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2019

Vattiyoorkavu State assembly constituency 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 Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency. ^[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is V. K. Prasanth of CPI(M).

Vattiyoorkavu constituency came into existence in 2011. Before it was known as Trivandrum North Constituency from 1977 to 2011, and Trivandrum-II constituency from 1957 to 1977.

Vattiyoorkavu Legislative Assembly Constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments:^[2]

The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented Vattiyoorkavu Legislative Assembly Constituency during the period of various assemblies:^[3]

Key

  PSP   Independent   RSP   CPI(M)   INC

As Trivandrum-II

As Trivandrum North

As Vattiyoorkavu

• * Byepoll

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

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

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Vattiyoorkavu

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. K. Prasanth	61,111	44.40	0.15
	BJP	V. V. Rajesh	39,596	28.77	6.61
	INC	Veena S. Nair	35655	25.76	6.82
	BSP	N. Murali	890	0.3
	SDPI	A. Shyju	201	0.15
	NOTA	None of the above	109	0.62	0.04
Margin of victory			21,515	15.63	3.96
Turnout			1,37,636
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	0.15

Due to the election of the sitting MLA K. Muraleedharan as the MP from Vatakara (Lok Sabha constituency), Vattiyoorkavu Constituency went to bypoll in 2019. There were 1,97,570 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Constituency for this election.^[4] V. K. Prashanth won by 14,465 votes in the subsequent election conducted in October 2019.^[5]

2019 Kerala Legislative Assembly by-elections: Vattiyoorkavu

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. K. Prasanth	54,830	44.25%	14.46
	INC	K. Mohankumar	40,365	32.58%	5.23
	BJP	S. Suresh	27,453	22.16%	10.03
	NOTA	None of the Above	820	0.66%	0.06
	Independent	A.Mohanakumar	135	0.11%	N/A
	Independent	Nagaraj G.	100	0.08%	N/A
	Independent	Suresh S. S.	93	0.08%	N/A
	Independent	Murukan A.	76	0.06%	N/A
	Independent	Mithran G.	38	0.03%	N/A
Majority			14,465	11.67%	6.06
Turnout			1,23,910	62.66%	7.17
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing	14.46

There were 1,95,239 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Constituency for the 2016 Kerala legislative assembly Election.^[6]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vattiyoorkavu

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	K. Muraleedharan	51,322	37.81	12.38
	BJP	Kummanam Rajasekharan	43,700	32.19	20.21
	CPI(M)	T. N. Seema	40,441	29.79	6.05
	BSP	Mekkansi K. John	399	0.29	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	816	0.60	N/A
	Independent	Binu D.	147	0.11
	Independent	Sahadevan	104	0.08
	Independent	K. G. Mohanan	77	0.06
	Independent	Baby D.	53	0.04
	Independent	Saju Ameerdas	48	0.04
Majority			7,622	5.56	8.79
Turnout			1,37,108	70.23	6.01
	INC hold		Swing	12.38

There were 1,75,398 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[7]

• Vattiyoorkavu
• Thiruvananthapuram district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election
• 2019 Kerala Legislative Assembly by-elections