Eravipuram (State Assembly constituency)

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Eravipuram
ഇരവിപുരം
125; Eravipuram ; ഇരവിപുരം
	Constituency for the Kerala Niyamasabha
	Eravipuram constituency in Kollam district
Existence	1957 - present
Reservation	General
Electorate	1,70,253 (2016)
Current MLA	M. Noushad
Party	CPI(M)
Political Front	LDF
Elected Year	2016
District	Kollam
Local Self Governed Segments	Wards No.14, 15 and 20 to 41 of Kollam (M. Corporation) and Mayyanad Panchayat in Kollam Taluk.

Eravipuram is a legislative assembly constituency in the southern coastal area of Kollam district in Kerala, India. It is one among the 11 assembly constituencies in the district.[1] As of the 2016 assembly elections, the current MLA is M. Noushad of CPI(M).

Structure

As per the recent changes on assembly constituency delimitations, the Eravipuram assembly constituency consists of the 4 wards from Kollam Municipal Corporation (Asramam, Uliyakovil, Mangadu, Thekkevila) and neighbouring Mayyanad panchayath in Kollam Taluk.[2][3]

Year	Winner	Party	Vote Margin	Coalition
1951	C. Kesavan	Indian National Congress	774	Right[4]
1954	Chandrasekharan	RSP	762	Left
1954	Sukumaran	CPI	10,935	Left[5]

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

Key

IUML CPI (M) RSP CPI Independent

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party	Tenure
1957	1st	P. Ravindran	CPI	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd	P. Ravindran	CPI	1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	R. S. Unni	IND	1967 – 1970
1970	4th		RSP	1970 – 1977
1977	5th			1977 – 1980
1980	6th			1980 – 1982
1982	7th			1982 – 1984
1987	8th	V. P. Ramakrishnna Pillai		1987 – 1991
1991	9th	P. K. K. Bava	IUML	1991 – 1996
1996	10th	V. P. Ramakrishnna Pillai	RSP	1996 – 2001
2001	11th	A. A. Aziz		2001 – 2006
2006	12th			2006 – 2011
2011	13th			2011 – 2016
2016	14th	M. Noushad	CPI(M)	Incumbent

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

There were 1,70,253 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[6]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Eravipuram
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	M. Noushad	65,392	52.33
	RSP	A. A. Azeez	36,589	29.28	19.72
	BDJS	Akkavila Satheek	19,714	15.77
	SDPI	Ayathil Razak	988	0.79
	NOTA	None of the above	950	0.76
	PDP	Muhammed Ismail	643	0.51
	Independent	Manoj	463	0.37
	SUCI(C)	Vinod B.	232	0.19
Margin of victory			28,803	23.05
Turnout			1,24,971	73.40	5.26
	CPI (M) gain from RSP		Swing

There were 1,53,575 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[7]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Eravipuram
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	RSP	A. A. Azeez	51,271	49.00
	IUML	P. K. K. Bava	43,259	41.34
	BJP	Pattathanam Babu	5,048	4.82
	Independent	Mylakkad Shah	3,234	3.09
	BSP	Sushama Vijayan	580	0.55
	Independent	Abdul Azeez	552	0.53
	Independent	Saiju V.	391	0.37
	Independent	Deepu N.	310	0.30
Margin of victory			8,012	7.66
Turnout			1,04,645	68.14
	RSP hold		Swing

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