Thiruvananthapuram Assembly constituency

Thiruvananthapuram Central Assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala, India. It is one of the seven assembly segments that constitute the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency.

Thiruvananthapuram Central
Constituency No. 134 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple,Located In Thiruvananthapuram Central Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
Lok Sabha constituency	Thiruvananthapuram
Established	2008
Total electors	2,03,584 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent C. P. John
Party	CMP
Alliance	UDF
Elected year	2026

Thiruvananthapuram Assembly constituency was established by the 2008 delimitation. Before, it was known as Trivandrum West Assembly Constituency from 1977 to 2008, and Trivandrum-I Assembly constituency from 1957 to 1977.

Local self-governed segments

Thiruvananthapuram Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:

Sl no.	Name	Ward no.	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality/Municipal Corporation)	Taluk
1	Thiruvananthapuram	26-30 40-47 Including kunnukuzhi, palayam, Valiyathura, Shankumugham, Beemapalli, Vazhuthacaud, Vanchiyoor 59-60 69-75 77-78 80	Municipal Corporation	Thiruvananthapuram

Members of Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented Thiruvananthapuram Assembly constituency during the period of various assemblies:

Thiruvananthapuram-I

Election	Member	Party
1957	E. P. Eapen		Praja Socialist Party
1960
1967	B. M. Nair		Samyukta Socialist Party
1970	N. Gopala Pillai		Praja Socialist Party

Thiruvananthapuram West

Election	Member	Party
1977	K. Pankajakshan		Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
1980	P. A. Muhammad Kannu		Indian Union Muslim League
1982
1987	M. M. Hassan		Indian National Congress
1991
1996	Antony Raju		Kerala Congress
2001	M. V. Raghavan		Communist Marxist Party
2006	V. Surendran Pillai		Kerala Congress

Thiruvananthapuram

Election	Member	Party
2011	V. S. Sivakumar		Indian National Congress
2016
2021	Adv. Antony Raju		Janadhipathya Kerala Congress
2026	C. P. John		Communist Marxist Party

Election results

Vote share of winning candidates

2026			37.83%
2021			38.01%
2016			36.82%
2011			45.87%

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

2026

There were 1,58,826 registered voters in Thiruvananthapuram Central assembly constituency for the 2026 legislative assembly election. LDF candidate Sudheer Karamana contested the election as an independent candidate.

2026 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvananthapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CMP	C. P. John	45,586	37.83	−
	Independent	Sudheer Karamana	35,723	29.65	−
	BJP	Karamana Jayan	35,125	29.15	1.86
	NOTA	None of the above	909	0.75	0.07
	Independent	Suresh Kumar	769	0.46	−
	AAP	Samin Sathyadas	556	0.46	−
	Independent	Pradeep Kumar P	506	0.46	−
	BSP	Adv. Sen	463	0.46	−
	Independent	Manmohan	237	0.46	−
	SUCI(C)	A. Saboora	227	0.19	0.10
	Janam Rashtriya Party	Karthika Devi M	210	0.46	−
	Independent	Bindhu Menon L R	177	0.46	−
Margin of victory			9,863	8.18	2.61
Turnout			1,20,488	75.86	10.83
	CMP gain from JKC		Swing	-

2021

There were 2,03,584 registered voters in the Thiruvananthapuram constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvananthapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JKC	Adv. Antony Raju	48,748	38.01	9.83
	INC	V. S. Sivakumar	41,669	32.49	4.33
	BJP	Krishnakumar G.	34,996	27.29	0.25
	NOTA	None of the Above	1054	0.82	0.32
	Independent	Abhilash Vadakkan	436	0.34	–
	SUCI(C)	A. Saboora	366	0.29	0.02
	Independent	Raju Antony	289	0.23	–
	Independent	Chala Mohanan D.	245	0.19	–
	Independent	Antony Raju S/o Raju	190	0.15	–
	Independent	Sivakumar K. S/o Kumara Swamy	164	0.13	–
	Independent	Krishnakumar T. S. S/o Sankarankutty	89	0.07	–
Majority			7,089	5.57	3.07
Turnout			1,28,322	63.03	2.33
	JKC gain from INC		Swing	9.83

2016

There were 1,93,101 registered voters in the Thiruvananthapuram constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvananthapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	V. S. Sivakumar	46,474	36.82	9.05
	JKC	Adv. Antony Raju	35,569	28.18	–
	BJP	S. Sreesanth	34,764	27.54	16.78
	AIADMK	Dr. Biju Ramesh	5,762	4.57
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,435	1.14	–
	Independent	Nandavanam Suseelan	450	0.36	–
	Independent	Antony Raju New Colony	424	0.34	–
	BSP	Mohanambika D.	398	0.32	–
	SUCI(C)	P. S. Gopakumar	344	0.27	0.05
	Independent	Sivakumar Raveendran Nair	208	0.16	–
	Independent	Praveen Arimbrathodiyil	170	0.13	–
	Independent	M. S. Subi	113	0.09	–
	Independent	Sivakumar Pushkaran	101	0.08	–
Majority			10,905	8.64	3.64
Turnout			1,26,212	65.36	5.01
	INC hold		Swing	9.05

2011

There were ,1,77,442 registered voters in the Thiruvananthapuram constituency for the 2011 Kerala Assembly election.

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvananthapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	V. S. Sivakumar	49,122	45.87
	KEC	V. Surendran Pillai	43,770	40.87
	BJP	B. K. Sekhar	11,519	10.76
	SDPI	Abdu Razak A.	807	0.75
	Independent	P. Surendran Pillai	518	0.48
	Independent	S. Sivakumar	485	0.45
	SUCI(C)	P. S. Gopakumar	235	0.22
	Independent	N. Sivakumar	221	0.21
	Independent	Sundaran Pillai	207	0.19
	Independent	C. Vasantha Kumar	110	0.10
	Independent	George Mankidan	98	0.09
Majority			5,352	5.00
Turnout			1,07,092	60.35
	INC win (new seat)

See also

• Thiruvananthapuram
• Thiruvananthapuram district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election