Alappuzha State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency.[1] The current MLA is P. P Chitharenjan of CPI(M).
Alappuzha Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:[2]
| Name | Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality) | Taluk |
|---|---|---|
| Parts of Alappuzha |
Municipality | Ambalappuzha |
| Aryad | Grama panchayat | Ambalappuzha |
| Mannancherry | Grama panchayat | Ambalappuzha |
| Mararikulam North | Grama panchayat | Cherthala |
| Mararikulam South | Grama panchayat | Ambalappuzha |
The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented the constituency:
| Election | Niyama
Sabha |
Member | Party | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 1st | T. V. Thomas | CPI | 1957 – 1960 | |
| 1960 | 2nd | A. Nafeesath Beevi | INC | 1960 – 1965 | |
| 1967 | 3rd | T. V. Thomas | CPI | 1967 – 1970 | |
| 1970 | 4th | 1970 – 1977 | |||
| 1977 | 5th | P. K. Vasudevan Nair | 1977 – 1980 | ||
| 1980 | 6th | 1980 – 1982 | |||
| 1982 | 7th | K. P. Ramachandran Nair | NDP | 1982 – 1987 | |
| 1987 | 8th | Rosamma Punnose | CPI | 1987 – 1991 | |
| 1991 | 9th | Vijayamma. S | INC | 1991 – 1996 | |
| 1996 | 10th | K. C. Venugopal | 1996 – 2001 | ||
| 2001 | 11th | 2001 – 2006 | |||
| 2006 | 12th | 2006 – 2009 | |||
| 2009* | 12th | A. A. Shukoor | 2009 – 2011 | ||
| 2011 | 13th | T. M. Thomas Isaac | CPI(M) | 2011 – 2016 | |
| 2016 | 14th | 2016 - 2021 | |||
| 2021 | 15th | P. P. Chitharanjan | Incumbent | ||
*by-election
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
There were 1,54,149 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | P. P. Chitharanjan | 73,412 | 46.33 |  6.96
| |
| INC | K. S. Manoj | 61,768 | 38.98 |  5.56
| |
| BJP | Sandeep Vachaspati | 21,650 | 13.66 | 2.00
| |
| NOTA | NOTA | 1,089 | 0.69 | ||
| Margin of victory | 11,644 | 7.35 | 0.95
| ||
| Turnout | 1,58,446 | - | − | ||
| CPI(M) hold | Swing | 6.96
|
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There were 1,41,243 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | T. M. Thomas Isaac | 83,211 | 53.29 | 0.42
| |
| INC | Laly Vincent | 52,179 | 33.42 | 8.72
| |
| BJP | Ranjith Sreenivas | 18,214 | 11.66 | 9.15
| |
| NOTA | None of the above | 856 | 0.55 | − | |
| SDPI | P. A. Sulaiman | 703 | 0.45 | 0.37
| |
| PDP | K. Mujeeb | 481 | 0.31 | − | |
| SUCI(C) | K. A. Vinod | 244 | 0.16 | ||
| Independent | Premji K. P. | 149 | 0.10 | ||
| Independent | Prasanth | 113 | 0.07 | ||
| Margin of victory | 31,032 | 19.87 | 8.30
| ||
| Turnout | 1,56,150 | 80.68 | 0.52
| ||
| CPI(M) hold | Swing | 0.42
|
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There were 1,93,532 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Adv P J Mathew | 59,515 | 42.14 | ||
| CPI(M) | T. M. Thomas Issac | 75,857 | 53.71 | − | |
| BJP | Kottaram Unnikrishnan | 3,450 | 2.51 | − | |
| SDPI | T. M. Samad | 1,158 | 0.82 | ||
| Independent | Sebastian | 646 | 0.46 | ||
| BSP | C. P. Thilakan | 527 | 0.37 | ||
| Margin of victory | 16,342 | 11.57 | |||
| Turnout | 1,41,243 | 81.20 | |||
| CPI(M) gain from | Swing | ||||
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