Sulthan Bathery Assembly constituency
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Sulthan Bathery State assembly constituency 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 Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency. [1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is I. C. Balakrishnan of INC.
| Sulthan Bathery | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 18 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
 A backwater in the Sulthan Bathery (State Assembly constituency). | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | South India |
| State | Kerala |
| District | Wayanad |
| Established | 1977 |
| Total electors | 2,20,167 (2021) |
| Reservation | ST |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 15th Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | INC |
| Alliance | UDF |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Local Self Government Segments edit
- Sultan Bathery (Municipality)
- Mullenkolly (Panchayath)
- Pulpalli (Panchayath)
- Poothadi (Panchayath)
- Meenangadi (Panchayath)
- Ambalavayal (Panchayath)
- Nenmeni (Panchayath)
- Noolpuzha (Panchayath)
List of MLAs from the constituency edit
Key
| Election | Niyama Sabha |
Member | Party | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 5th | K Raghavan | INC | 1977 – 1980 | |
| 1980 | 6th | K. K. Ramachandran | INC(I) | 1980 – 1982 | |
| 1982 | 7th | 1982 – 1987 | |||
| 1987 | 8th | INC | 1987 – 1991 | ||
| 1991 | 9th | K C Rosakutty Teacher | INC | 1991 – 1996 | |
| 1996 | 10th | P. V. Varghese Vaidyar | CPI(M) | 1996 – 2001 | |
| 2001 | 11th | N. D. Appachan | INC | 2001 – 2006 | |
| 2006 | 12th | P Krishna Prasad | CPI(M) | 2006 – 2011 | |
| 2011 | 13th | I. C. Balakrishnan | INC | 2011 – 2016 | |
| 2016 | 14th | 2016 - 2021 | |||
| 2021 | 15th | Incumbent | |||
Election results edit
2021 edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | I.C.Balakrishnan | 81,077 | 48.42% | 4.38+% | |
| CPI(M) | ms viswanathan | 69,255 | 41.36 | 3.83+% | |
| BJP | C.k janu | 15,198 | 9.08% | ||
| Majority | 11,822 | + | |||
| Turnout | 74.29 | 4.54- | |||
| Registered electors | 220167 | ||||
| INC hold | Swing | hold INC | |||
2016 edit
There were 2,18,241 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.[2]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | I. C. Balakrishnan | 75,747 | 44.04 |  5.10
| |
| CPI(M) | Rugmini Subrahmanian | 64,549 | 37.53 | 6.40
| |
| JRS | C. K. Janu | 27,920 | 16.23 |  10.16
| |
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,261 | 0.73 | - | |
| BSP | Mukundan Cheengeri | 791 | 0.46 | 0.01
| |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) | Madhavi | 609 | 0.35 | - | |
| SP | K. K. Vasu | 478 | 0.28 | - | |
| Independent | Balakrishnan Edakkal | 387 | 0.22 | - | |
| SUCI(C) | T. R. Sreedharan | 262 | 0.15 | - | |
| Margin of victory | 11,198 | 6.51 | 3.75
| ||
| Turnout | 1,72,004 | 78.81 | 5.56
| ||
| INC hold | Swing | 5.10
|
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2011 edit
There were 1,98,645 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | I. C. Balakrishnan | 71,540 | 49.14 | ||
| CPI(M) | E. A. Sankaran | 63,926 | 43.93 | ||
| BJP | Palliyara Raman | 8,829 | 6.07 | ||
| BSP | Mukundan Cheengeri | 679 | 0.47 | ||
| Margin of victory | 7,583 | 10.26 | |||
| Turnout | 1,45,512 | 73.25 | |||
| INC gain from CPI(M) | Swing | ||||
| Year | Niyama Sabha | Category | Winning Candidate | Winning Party | Vote | Runner-up | Party | Vote | Majority |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 5th | ST | K. Raghavan Master | INC | 29204 | Nidyachery Vasu | BLD | 24213 | 4991 |
| 1980 | 6th | GEN | K. K. Ramachandran Master | INC(I) | 36974 | P. T. Jose | KEC | 29580 | 7394 |
| 1982 | 7th | 31858 | P. V. Varghese Vaidyar | CPI(M) | 28623 | 3235 | |||
| 1987 | 8th | INC | 39102 | P. Cyriac John | ICS(SCS) | 34976 | 4126 | ||
| 1991 | 9th | GEN | K. C. Rosakutty | INC | 53050 | P.V Varghese Vaidyar | CPM | 50544 | 2006 |
| 1996 | 10th | GEN | P. V. Varghese Vaidyar | CPI(M) | 50316 | K. C. Rosakutty | INC | 49020 | 1296 |
| 2001 | 11th | GEN | N. D. Appachan | INC | 68685 | Fr. Mathai Nooranal | IND | 45132 | 23553 |
| 2006 | 12th | GEN | P. Krishna Prasad | CPI(M) | 63092 | N D Appachan | DIC | 37552 | 25540 |
| 2011 | 13th | ST | I. C. Balakrishnan | INC | 71509 | E. A. Shankaran | CPI(M) | 63926 | 7583 |
| 2016 | 14th | 75747 | Rugmini Subramanian | CPI(M) | 65647 | 11198 |
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "State Assembly constituencies in Wayanad district, Kerala". www.ceo.kerala.gov.in.
- ^ "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.