Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency

Vattiyoorkavu
Vattiyoorkavu
Constituency No. 133 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Kowdiar Palace at Kowdiar ward of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation in Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
Established	2008
Total electors	1,65,272 (2026)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	16th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent K. Muraleedharan
Party	Indian National Congress
Alliance	UDF
Elected year	2026

Vattiyoorkavu State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala. It is also one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2026 Assembly elections, the current MLA is K. Muraleedharan of the INC.

This Constituency Is Heavily Dominated By Nair.^[2]

Local self-governed segments

Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:^[3]

Sl no.	Name	Wards	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality/Municipal Corporation)	Taluk
1	Thiruvananthapuram	24 wards	Municipal Corporation	Thiruvananthapuram

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency during the period of various assemblies:^[4]

Trivandrum-II

Election	Member
1957	Pattom Thanu Pillai	Praja Socialist Party
1960	Pattom Thanu Pillai	Praja Socialist Party
1967	K. C. Vamadevan	Independent
1970	K. Pankajakshan	Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)

Trivandrum North

Election	Member
1977	K. Ravindran Nair	Independent
1980	K. Anirudhan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1982	G. Karthikeyan	Indian National Congress
1987	M. Vijayakumar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991
1996
2001	K. Mohankumar	Indian National Congress
2006	M. Vijayakumar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Vattiyoorkavu

Election	Member
2011	K. Muraleedharan	Indian National Congress
2016	K. Muraleedharan	Indian National Congress
2019*	V. K. Prasanth	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2021	V. K. Prasanth	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2026	K. Muraleedharan	Indian National Congress

*by-election

Election results

2026

2026 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vattiyoorkavu
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	K. Muraleedharan	48,338	37.2	11.44
	CPI(M)	V. K. Prasanth	42,913	33.1	11.30
	BJP	R. Sreelekha	37,213	28.76	0.02
Margin of victory			5,425	4.10	11.44
Turnout			1,29,765	76.92	6.69
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	11.44

2021

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

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vattiyoorkavu
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. K. Prasanth	61,111	44.40	0.15
	BJP	V. V. Rajesh	39,596	28.77	6.61
	INC	Veena S. Nair	35,655	25.76	6.82
	NOTA	None of the above	109	0.62	0.04
Margin of victory			21,515	15.63	3.96
Turnout			1,37,636
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	0.15

2019 by-election

Due to the election of the sitting MLA K. Muraleedharan as the MP from Vatakara Lok Sabha constituency, Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency held a by-election in 2019. There were 1,97,570 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency for this election.^[5] V. K. Prashanth won by 14,465 votes in the subsequent election conducted in October 2019.^[6]

2019 Kerala Legislative Assembly by-elections: Vattiyoorkavu
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. K. Prasanth	54,830	44.25%	14.46
	INC	K. Mohankumar	40,365	32.58%	5.23
	BJP	S. Suresh	27,453	22.16%	10.03
	NOTA	None of the Above	820	0.66%	0.06
	Independent	A.Mohanakumar	135	0.11%	N/A
	Independent	Nagaraj G.	100	0.08%	N/A
	Independent	Suresh S. S.	93	0.08%	N/A
	Independent	Murukan A.	76	0.06%	N/A
	Independent	Mithran G.	38	0.03%	N/A
Majority			14,465	11.67%	6.06
Turnout			1,23,910	62.66%	7.17
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing	14.46

2016

There were 1,95,239 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency for the 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election.^[7]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vattiyoorkavu
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	K. Muraleedharan	51,322	37.81	12.38
	BJP	Kummanam Rajasekharan	43,700	32.19	20.21
	CPI(M)	T. N. Seema	40,441	29.79	6.05
	BSP	Mekkansi K. John	399	0.29	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	816	0.60	N/A
	Independent	Binu D.	147	0.11
	Independent	Sahadevan	104	0.08
	Independent	K. G. Mohanan	77	0.06
	Independent	Baby D.	53	0.04
	Independent	Saju Ameerdas	48	0.04
Majority			7,622	5.56	8.79
Turnout			1,37,108	70.23	6.01
	INC hold		Swing	12.38

2011

There were 1,75,398 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[8]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vattiyoorkavu
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	K. Muraleedharan	56,531	50.19
	LDF	Cheriyan Phillip	40,364	35.84
	BJP	V. V. Rajesh	13,494	11.98
	BSP	Kaithakodu Radhakrishnan	915	0.81
	Independent	Cheriyan P. T.	551	0.49
	Independent	Rajan K.	488	0.08
	Independent	G. Balakrishnan Nair	294	0.26
Majority			16,167	14.35
Turnout			1,12,637	64.22
	INC win (new seat)

Trivandrum North (before Delimitation in 2008)

2006

2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Trivandrum North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	M. Vijayakumar	60,145	50.60
	INC	K. Mohankumar	50,421	42.52
Majority			9,724	8.18
Turnout			1,18,845
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing

2001

There were 2,11,264 registered voters in the constituency for the 2001 election.

2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Trivandrum North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	K. Mohankumar	63,202	48.97
	CPI(M)	M. Vijayakumar	56,818	44.03
Majority			6,384	4.94
Turnout			1,29,052	61.20
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

1996

There were 1,87,779 registered voters in the constituency for the 1996 election.

1996 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Trivandrum North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	M. Vijayakumar	62,479	52.79
	INC	T. Saratchandra Prasad	48,170	40.70
Majority			14,309	12.70
Turnout			1,18,364	63.84
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

1991

There were 1,73,461 registered voters in the constituency for the 1991 election.

1991 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Trivandrum North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	M. Vijayakumar	52,865	46.21
	NDP	T. Raveendran Thampi	52,525	45.91
Majority			340	0.30
Turnout			1,14,408	68.05
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

1987

There were 1,40,159 registered voters in the constituency for the 1987 election.

1987 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Trivandrum North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	M. Vijayakumar	53,167	49.99
	INC	G. Karthikeyan	38,002	35.73
Majority			15,165	14.26
Turnout			1,06,360	76.47
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing

1982

There were 1,06,347 registered voters in the constituency for the 1982 election.

1982 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Trivandrum North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	G. Karthikeyan	38,260	54.38
	CPI(M)	K. Anirudhan	29,414	41.81
Majority			8,846	12.57
Turnout			70,352	66.82
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

References

↑ "State Assembly Constituencies in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala". trivandrum.nic.in.
↑ Vidyadharan, Sovi (18 October 2019). "Vattiyoorkavu in for a fierce three-cornered fight". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 4 June 2026.
↑ "Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Thiruvananthapuram District". Archived from the original on 29 November 2023. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
↑ "Members of Kerala Legislative Assembly: Vattiyoorkavu".
↑ "Vattiyoorkavu Niyamasabha Constituency goes to bypoll, www.thehindu.com". www.thehindu.com.
↑ "'ശരിദൂരം'കടന്ന് പ്രശാന്ത്; ബിജെപിക്കും യുഡിഎഫിനും കനത്ത പ്രഹരം". ManoramaOnline (in Malayalam). Retrieved 24 October 2019.
↑ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
↑ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.

[1] "State Assembly Constituencies in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala". trivandrum.nic.in.

[2] Vidyadharan, Sovi (18 October 2019). "Vattiyoorkavu in for a fierce three-cornered fight". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 4 June 2026.

[3] "Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Thiruvananthapuram District". Archived from the original on 29 November 2023. Retrieved 11 September 2019.

[4] "Members of Kerala Legislative Assembly: Vattiyoorkavu".

[5] "Vattiyoorkavu Niyamasabha Constituency goes to bypoll, www.thehindu.com". www.thehindu.com.

[6] "'ശരിദൂരം'കടന്ന് പ്രശാന്ത്; ബിജെപിക്കും യുഡിഎഫിനും കനത്ത പ്രഹരം". ManoramaOnline (in Malayalam). Retrieved 24 October 2019.

[7] "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.

[8] "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.

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