Kovalam 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 Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency.[1] As of the 2021 Assembly elections, the current MLA is M. Vincent of INC.
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | J. C. Moraes | Independent | |
| 1970 | M. Kunjukrishnan Nadar | ||
| 1977 | A. Neelalohitadasan Nadar | ||
| 1980 | M. R. Raghu Chandra Bal | Indian National Congress | |
| 1982 | N. Shakthan Nadar | Independent | |
| 1987 | Neelalohithadasan Nadar | Lok Dal | |
| 1991 | Janata Dal | ||
| 1996 | |||
| 2001 | Janata Dal (Secular) | ||
| 2006 | George Mercier | Indian National Congress | |
| 2011 | Jameela Prakasham | Janata Dal | |
| 2016 | M. Vincent | Indian National Congress | |
| 2021 | |||
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
There were 2,18,656 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.[2]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | M. Vincent | 74,868 | 47.06 |  7.92
| |
| JD(S) | Neelalohitadasan Nadar | 63,306 | 39.79 | 2.34
| |
| BJP | Vishupuram Chandrasekharan | 18,664 | 11.73 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 773 | 0.49 | ||
| BSP | K. R. Anish | 641 | 0.40 |  0.25
| |
| Independent | V. S. Prince | 417 | 0.26 | ||
| Independent | Venganoor Asokan | 284 | 0.18 | ||
| Independent | R. I. Ajil | 147 | 0.09 | ||
| Margin of victory | 11,562 | 7.27 | 5.58
| ||
| Turnout | 1,59,100 | 72.76 | 1.47
| ||
| INC hold | Swing | ||||
There were 2,07,410 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | M. Vincent | 60,268 | 39.14 | 2.70
| |
| JD(S) | Jameela Prakasham | 57,653 | 37.45 | 10.15
| |
| BDJS | Kovalam T. N. Suresh | 30,987 | 20.13 | ||
| BSP | K. R. Anish | 996 | 0.65 | 0.28
| |
| Independent | M. C. Jayalal | 933 | 0.61 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 845 | 0.55 | ||
| Independent | Pramod Kumar | 564 | 0.37 | ||
| IGP | Sarasamma T. | 558 | 0.36 | ||
| Margin of victory | 2,615 | 1.69 | 4.07
| ||
| Turnout | 1,53,966 | 74.23 | 5.15
| ||
| INC gain from JD(S) | Swing | ||||
There were 1,83,616 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JD(S) | Jameela Prakasham | 59,510 | 47.60 | ||
| INC | George Mercier | 52,305 | 41.84 | ||
| BJP | Venganoor Satheesh | 9,127 | 7.30 | ||
| Independent | Thanka Bai T. | 1,231 | 0.98 | ||
| SDPI | A. M. Nizam | 1,193 | 0.95 | ||
| BSP | Muraleedharan | 1,157 | 0.93 | ||
| Margin of victory | 7,205 | 5.76 | |||
| Turnout | 1,25,008 | 68.08 | |||
| JD(S) gain from INC | Swing | ||||
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