Vattiyoorkavu State assembly constituency is one of the 140
state legislative assembly constituencies in
Kerala
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. It is also one of the 7
state legislative assembly constituencies included in the
Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency.
As of the
2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is V. K. Prasanth of
CPI(M)
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.
Vattiyoorkavu constituency came into existence in 2011. Before it was known as Trivandrum North Constituency from 1977 to 2011, and Trivandrum-II constituency from 1957 to 1977.
Local self governed segments
Vattiyoorkavu Legislative Assembly Constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments:
Members of Legislative Assembly
The following list contains all members of
Kerala legislative assembly who have represented Vattiyoorkavu Legislative Assembly Constituency during the period of various assemblies:
Key
As Trivandrum-II
As Trivandrum North
As Vattiyoorkavu
* * Byepoll
Election results
Niyamasabha election 2021
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
Partywise Results
Niyamasabha By-election 2019
Due to the election of the sitting MLA
K. Muraleedharan as the
MP from
Vatakara (Lok Sabha constituency), Vattiyoorkavu Constituency went to bypoll in 2019. There were 1,97,570 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Constituency for this election. V. K. Prashanth won by 14,465 votes in the subsequent election conducted in October 2019.
Niyamasabha Election 2016
There were 1,95,239 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Constituency for the 2016 Kerala legislative assembly Election.
Niyamasabha Election 2011
There were 1,75,398 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.
See also
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Vattiyoorkavu
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Thiruvananthapuram district
Thiruvananthapuram District (), is the southernmost district in the Indian state of Kerala. The district was created in 1949, with its headquarters in the city of Thiruvananthapuram, which is also Kerala's administrative centre. The present d ...
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List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
The Kerala Legislative Assembly, popularly known as the Niyamasabha (literally ''Hall of laws''), is the law-making body of Kerala, one of the 28 States in India. The Assembly is formed by 140 elected representatives. Each elected member repr ...
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2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election
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2019 Kerala Legislative Assembly by-elections
References
{{Kerala Niyamasabha elections
Assembly constituencies of Kerala
State assembly constituencies in Thiruvananthapuram district