Nemom Assembly constituency

Nemom
Constituency No. 135 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionSouth India
StateKerala
DistrictThiruvananthapuram
Established1957 - present
Total electors2,04,240 (2021)
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyCPI(M)
Alliance  LDF
Elected year2021

Nemom 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. Sivankutty of CPI(M).

Local self governed segments

Nemom is composed of wards 37-39, 48-58 and 61-68 of the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation after the delimitation of the constituency in 2011:[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented Nemom Niyamasabha Constituency during the period of various assemblies:[3]

Election Name Political party
1957 M. Sadasivan Communist Party of India
1960 P. Viswambharan Praja Socialist Party
1967 M. Sadasivan Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1970 G. Kuttapan Praja Socialist Party
1977 S. Varadarajan Nair Indian National Congress
1980 E. Ramesan Nair
1982 K. Karunakaran
1987 V. J. Thankappan Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991
1996 P. Bhaskaran Venganoor
2001 N. Sakthan Indian National Congress
2006
Major boundary changes
2011 V. Sivankutty Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2016 O. Rajagopal Bharatiya Janata Party
2021 V. Sivankutty Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Election results

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

2021

There were 2,04,240 registered voters in Nemom Constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Nemom
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) V. Sivankutty 55,837 38.24 Decrease3.15
BJP Kummanam Rajasekharan 51,888 35.54 Decrease11.92
INC K. Muraleedharan 36,524 25.10 Increase15.40
NOTA None of the above 756 0.53 Decrease0.09
Majority 3,949 2.76 Decrease3.31
Turnout 1,42,578 69.81 Decrease4.43
CPI(M) gain from BJP Swing

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 1,92,459 registered voters in Nemom Constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Nemom
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP O. Rajagopal 67,813 47.46 Increase9.97
CPI(M) V. Sivankutty 59,142 41.39 Decrease1.60
JD(U) V. Surendran Pillai[5] 13,860 9.70 Decrease7.68
NOTA None of the Above 884 0.62 N/A
Majority 8,671 6.07 Increase0.57
Turnout 1,42,882 74.24 Increase6.72
BJP gain from CPI(M) Swing Increase4.47

Niyamasabha election 2011

First election after the Major delimitation of constituency. Different from the previous Nemom Constituency. Presently, it includes the parts of Previous Thiruvananthapuram East & Nemom Constitutencies.There were 1,72,493 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[6]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Nemom
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) V. Sivankutty 50,076 42.99 Decrease1.20
BJP O. Rajagopal 43,661 37.49 Increase31.90
SJ(D) Charupara Ravi 20,248 17.38 Decrease33.36
Majority 6,415 5.50 Decrease3.46
Turnout 1,16,474 67.52 Increase0.65
CPI(M) win (new seat)

Niyamasabha election 2006

There were 1,79,417 registered voters in the constituency for the 2006 election.[7]

2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Nemom
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC N. Sakthan 60,884 50.74
CPI(M) Venganoor P Bhaskaran 50,135 41.79
BJP Malayinkeezhu Radhakrishnan 6,705 5.59
Majority 10,749 8.96
Turnout 1,19,982 66.87
INC hold Swing

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