Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency
Appearance
Alappuzha KL-15 | |
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Lok Sabha constituency | |
Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | South India |
State | Kerala |
Assembly constituencies | 7 |
Established | 1962 |
Reservation | None |
Member of Parliament | |
18th Lok Sabha | |
Incumbent | |
Party | INC |
Elected year | 2024 |
Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 20 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Kerala state in southern India.
Assembly segments
[edit]Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:[1]
SI No. | Name |
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1. | Aroor |
2. | Cherthala |
3. | Alappuzha |
4. | Ambalappuzha |
5. | Haripad |
6. | Kayamkulam |
7. | Karunagappally |
Former Assembly Segments
After the Delimitation Kayamkulam and Karunagappally were added
Members of Parliament
[edit]As Alleppey in Travancore-Cochin
Most Successful parties from Alappuzha Lok Sabha
INC (8 Times) (47.05%)
CPI(M) (5 Times) (29.41%)
CPI (3 Times) (17.64%)
RSP (1 Times) (5.88%)
Election | Lok Sabha | Member | Party | Tenure | |
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1952 | 1st | P.T. Punnoose | Communist Party of India | 1952-1957 |
As Ambalappuzha
Election | Lok Sabha | Member | Party | Tenure | |
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1957 | 2nd | P.T. Punnoose | Communist Party of India | 1957-1962 | |
1962 | 3rd | P. K. Vasudevan Nair | 1962-1967 | ||
1967 | 4th | Susheela Gopalan | Communist Party of India | 1967-1971 | |
1971 | 5th | K. Balakrishnan | Revolutionary Socialist Party | 1971-1977 |
As Alappuzha
Election | Lok Sabha | Member | Party | Tenure | |
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1977 | 6th | V. M. Sudheeran | Indian National Congress | 1977-1980 | |
1980 | 7th | Susheela Gopalan | Communist Party of India | 1980-1984 | |
1984 | 8th | Vakkom Purushothaman | Indian National Congress | 1984-1989 | |
1989 | 9th | 1989-1991 | |||
1991 | 10th | T. J. Anjalose | Communist Party of India | 1991-1996 | |
1996 | 11th | V. M. Sudheeran | Indian National Congress | 1996-1998 | |
1998 | 12th | 1998-1999 | |||
1999 | 13th | 1999-2004 | |||
2004 | 14th | K. S. Manoj | Communist Party of India | 2004-2009 | |
2009 | 15th | K.C Venugopal | Indian National Congress | 2009-2014 | |
2014 | 16th | 2014-2019 | |||
2019 | 17th | A.M. Ariff | Communist Party of India | 2019-2024 | |
2024 | 18th | K. C. Venugopal | Indian National Congress | Incumbent |
Election results
[edit]General Election 2024
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | K.C. Venugopal | 404,560 | 38.21 | ||
CPI(M) | A. M. Ariff | 341,047 | 32.21 | ||
BJP | Sobha Surendran | 299,648 | 28.30 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 7,365 | 0.70 | ||
Majority | 63,513 | 6.00 | |||
Turnout | 10,58,703 | ||||
INC gain from CPI(M) | Swing |
General election 2019
[edit]According to Election Commission, there are 13,14,535 registered voters in Alappuzha Constituency for 2019 Lok Sabha Election.[2]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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CPI(M) | A. M. Ariff | 445,981 | 40.96 | ||
INC | Shanimol Usman | 4,35,496 | 40.00 | ||
BJP | Dr. K. S. Radhakrishnan | 1,87,729 | 17.24 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 6,065 | 0.56 | ||
Margin of victory | 10,474 | ||||
Turnout | 10,90,112 | 80.35 | |||
CPI(M) gain from INC | Swing |
General election 2014
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | K.C. Venugopal | 462,525 | 46.31 | −5.31 | |
CPI(M) | C.B. Chandrababu | 443,118 | 44.37 | −0.90 | |
RSP(B) | A.V. Thamarakshan | 43,051 | 4.31 | N/A | |
NOTA | None of the above | 11,338 | 1.14 | −−− | |
Margin of victory | 19,407 | 1.95 | −4.40 | ||
Turnout | 997,464 | 78.85 | |||
INC hold | Swing |
See also
[edit]- Alappuzha
- List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha
- Indian general election, 2014 (Kerala)
- 2014 Indian general election
References
[edit]- ^ "Assembly Constituencies - Corresponding Districts and Parliamentary Constituencies" (PDF). Kerala. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2008. Retrieved 20 October 2008.
- ^ K, Abdul Basheer V. "2019 General Election Alappuzha Constituency Live Results".