Ottapalam (State Assembly constituency)

52
Ottapalam
ഒറ്റപ്പാലം
52; Ottapalam ; ഒറ്റപ്പാലം
	Constituency for the Kerala Niyamasabha
	The Ottapalam town in the Ottapalam (State Assembly constituency).
Existence	1957 - present
Reservation	None
Electorate	1,97,646 (2016)
Current MLA	P. Unni
Party	CPI(M)
Political Front	LDF
Elected Year	2016
District	Palakkad

Ottapalam State assembly constituency (Malayalam: ഒറ്റപ്പാലം നിയമസഭാ നിയോജക മണ്ഡലം) is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Palakkad Lok Sabha constituency.[1] As of the 2016 assembly elections, the current MLA is P. Unni of CPI(M).

Members of Legislative Assembly

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

Key

CPI (M) INC IC(S) NCP Independent CPI

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party	Tenure
1957	1st	Kunhunni Nayar	CPI	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd	Kunhunni Nayar	CPI	1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	P. P. Krishnan	CPI(M)	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	P. P. Krishnan	CPI(M)	1970 – 1977
1977	5th	P. Balan	INC	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	V. C. Kabeer	INC(U)	1980 – 1982
1982	7th	V. C. Kabeer	IND	1982 – 1987
1987	8th	K. Sankaranarayanan	INC	1987 – 1991
1991	9th	V. C. Kabeer	ICS(SCS)	1991 – 1996
1996	10th		IC(S)	1996 – 2001
2001	11th		NCP	2001 – 2006
2006	12th	M. Hamsa	CPI(M)	2006 – 2011
2011	13th	M. Hamsa		2011 – 2016
2016	14th	P. Unni		Incumbent

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

There were 1,97,646 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.[2]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Ottapalam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	P. Unni	67,161	44.71	4.76
	INC	Shanimol Usman	51,073	34.00	5.43
	BJP	P. Venugopalan	27,605	18.38	11.05
	SDPI	A. A. Sulfikar	1,166	0.78	0.69
	NOTA	None of the above	1,012	0.67	-
	BSP	K. T. Padmini	811	0.54	0.18
	Independent	S. R. Prakash	805	0.54	-
	SHS	M. S. Suneesh	399	0.27	-
	Independent	Suresh Velayudhan	180	0.12	-
Margin of victory			16,088	10.71	0.67
Turnout			1,50,212	76.00	0.92
	CPI (M) hold		Swing	4.76

There were 1,75,066 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[3]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Ottapalam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	M. Hamza	65,023	49.47	-
	INC	V. K. Sreekandan	51,820	39.43
	BJP	P. Venugopalan	9,631	7.33
	SDPI	E. S. Kajahussain	1,933	1.47
	Independent	M. Hamza	1,097	0.83	-
	BSP	K. T. Padmini	947	0.72	-
	Independent	N. Hamza	604	0.46	0.31
	Independent	Aravindan Karimpuzha	379	0.29	-
Margin of victory			13,203	10.04
Turnout			1,31,434	75.08
	CPI (M) hold		Swing

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