Karunagappally 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] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is C. R. Mahesh of Indian National Congress.
Karunagappally Assembly constituency was formed in 1951. As per the recent changes on Assembly constituency delimitations, the Assembly constituency consists of Karunagappally municipality and six panchayaths from Karunagappally taluk including Alappad, Clappana, Kulasekharapuram, Oachira, Thazhava and Thodiyoor.[2]
The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented the constituency:
| Election | Niyama
Sabha |
Name | Party | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 1st | P. Kunjukrishnan | Indian National Congress | 1957 – 1960 | |
| 1960 | 2nd | Baby John | Independent | 1960 – 1965 | |
| 1967 | 3rd | 1967 – 1970 | |||
| 1970 | 4th | Revolutionary Socialist Party | 1970 – 1977 | ||
| 1977 | 5th | B. M. Sheriff | Communist Party of India | 1977 – 1980 | |
| 1980 | 6th | 1980 – 1982 | |||
| 1982 | 7th | T. V. Vijayarajan | Independent | 1982 – 1987 | |
| 1987 | 8th | P. S. Sreenivasan | Communist Party of India | 1987 – 1991 | |
| 1991 | 9th | 1991 – 1996 | |||
| 1996 | 10th | E. Chandrasekharan Nair | 1996 – 2001 | ||
| 2001 | 11th | A. N. Rajan Babu | Janathipathiya Samrakshana Samithy | 2001 – 2006 | |
| 2006 | 12th | C. Divakaran | Communist Party of India | 2006 – 2011 | |
| 2011 | 13th | 2011 – 2016 | |||
| 2016 | 14th | R. Ramachandran | Communist Party of India | 2016 - 2021 | |
| 2021 | 15th | C. R. Mahesh | Indian National Congress | Incumbent | |
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
There were 2,13,993 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | C. R. Mahesh | 94,225 | 54.38 |  12.41
| |
| CPI | R. Ramachandran | 65,017 | 37.52 |  5.54
| |
| BJP | Bitty Sudheer | 12,144 | 7.01 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 450 | 0.26 | ||
| Margin of victory | 29,208 | 16.68 | 15.59
| ||
| Turnout | 1,73,284 | 80.97 | 1.60
| ||
| INC gain from CPI | Swing | ||||
There were 2,04,539 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI | R. Ramachandran | 69,902 | 43.06 | 7.07
| |
| INC | C. R. Mahesh | 68,143 | 41.97 | 2.38
| |
| BDJS | V. Sadasivan | 19,115 | 11.77 | ||
| SDPI | A. K. Salahudeen | 1,737 | 1.07 | 4.48
| |
| PDP | Mylakkadu Shah | 1,620 | 1.00 | − | |
| BSP | Gopalakrishnan | 649 | 0.40 | ||
| Independent | Ramachandran | 594 | 0.37 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 590 | 0.36 | ||
| Margin of victory | 1,759 | 1.09 | 9.45
| ||
| Turnout | 1,62,351 | 79.37 | 3.86
| ||
| CPI hold | Swing | 7.07
|
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There were 1,82,508 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI | C. Divakaran | 69,086 | 50.13 | ||
| JSS | A. N. Rajanbabu | 54,564 | 39.59 | ||
| SDPI | Nazarudeen Elamaram | 7,645 | 5.55 | ||
| BJP | Malumel Sumesh | 5,097 | 3.70 | ||
| Independent | P. D. Sudheer | 868 | 0.63 | − | |
| SUCI(C) | Twinkle Prabhakaran | 547 | 0.40 | ||
| Margin of victory | 14,522 | 10.54 | |||
| Turnout | 1,37,807 | 75.51 | |||
| CPI hold | Swing | ||||
