Aruvikkara (State Assembly constituency)

Aruvikkara State assembly constituency (Malayalam: അരുവിക്കര നിയമസഭാ നിയോജക മണ്ഡലം) 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 2016 assembly elections, the current MLA is K. S. Sabarinathan of INC.

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Aruvikkara
അരുവിക്കര
Constituency for the Kerala Niyamasabha
Existence2011 - present
ReservationGeneral
Electorate1,89,505 (2016)
Current MLAK. S. Sabarinathan
PartyINC
Political Front  UDF
Elected Year2016
DistrictThiruvananthapuram
Local Self Governed SegmentsAruvikkara, Aryanad, Tholicode, Vithura, Kuttichal, Poovachal, Vellanad and Uzhamalackal Panchayats in Nedumangad Taluk.

Members of Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:[2]

Key

  INC  

Election Niyama

Sabha

 Member Party Tenure
2011 13th G. Karthikeyan INC 2011 – 2015
2015* K. S. Sabarinathan 2015 – 2016
2016 14th Incumbent

* indicates bypolls

Election results

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

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 1,89,505 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[3]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Aruvikkara
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC K. S. Sabarinathan 70,910 49.32 9.30
CPI (M) A. A. Rasheed 20,294 34.50 1.66
BJP Rajasenan 20,294 14.12 10.08
SDPI M. A. Jaleel 707 0.49
BSP Chitralekha E. 673 0.47
NOTA None of the above 640 0.45
Independent Sabarinath 331 0.23
Independent Cherappally Viswanathan 188 0.13
Independent Rasheed 158 0.11
Independent A. P. Kakkadu 134 0.09
Independent Ajitha B. 130 0.09
Margin of victory 21,314 14.82 7.64
Turnout 1,43,761 75.86 0.30
INC hold Swing 9.30

2015 by-elections

Due to the death of the sitting MLA G. Karthikeyan, Aruvikkara constituency went to bypolls, held on June 27, 2015. [4]There were 1,85,216 registered voters for this election in the constituency.

2015 by-election: Aruvikkara
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC K. S. Sabarinathan 56,448 40.02 8.77
CPI M. Vijayakumar 46,320 32.84
BJP O. Rajagopal 34,145 24.20 17.59
Independent K. Das 1,197 0.85
PDP Poonthura Siraj 703 0.50 0.25
Independent P. K. Sukumaran 481 0.34
Independent Sunil M. Karani 422 0.30
[[AKTP|{{Template:AKTP/meta/shortname}}]] Thomas Kaithaparambil 383 0.27
Independent Irinchayam Suresh 354 0.25
ABHM Sreejita T. R. 171 0.12
Independent Sabarinath M. S. 143 0.10
[[ESKP|{{Template:ESKP/meta/shortname}}]] N. Sasidharan Pillai 93 0.07
Independent Vijaya Kumar B. 69 0.05
IGP K. M. Sivaprasad 62 0.04
Independent Vijaya Kumar Nair 40 0.03
Independent K. G. Mohanan 35 0.02
Margin of victory 10,128 7.18 9.30
Turnout 1,41,066 76.16 5.88
INC hold Swing 8.77

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,65,638 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[5]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Aruvikkara
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC G. Karthikeyan 56,797 48.79
RSP Ambalathara Sreedharan Nair 46,123 39.62
BJP Sivankutty C. 7,694 6.61
BSP A. Balan 1,746 1.50
Independent Poovathoor S. Rajeev 972 0.83
Independent Sanil V. O. 913 0.78
Independent R. Rajappan 753 0.65
Independent Karakulam Sathyakumar 651 0.56
SUCI(C) S. Sreekumar 525 0.45
Independent Latha B. Vellumannadi 244 0.21
Margin of victory 10,674 9.17
Turnout 1,16,418 70.28
INC win (new seat)

See also

References
  1. "State Assembly Constituencies in Thiruvananthapuram district". trivandrum.nic.in. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  2. "Aruvikkara Assembly Election Results 2016, Winning MLA List, Constituency Map". www.mapsofindia.com. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  3. "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
  4. "Despite rains, 76% polling in Aruvikkara by-election". Mathrubhumi. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  5. "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.

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