Chirayinkeezhu Assembly constituency

Chirayinkeezhu State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies at the state Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Attingal Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is V. Sasi of CPI.

Chirayinkeezhu
Constituency No. 129 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Anchuthengu Fort
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
LS constituency	Attingal
Established	1957
Total electors	1,99,220 (2021)
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent V. Sasi
Party	CPI
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Local self governed segments

Chirayinkeezhu Niyamasabha constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments:^[2]

Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
Anchuthengu	Grama panchayat	Chirayinkeezhu
Azhoor	Grama panchayat	Chirayinkeezhu
Chirayinkeezhu	Grama panchayat	Chirayinkeezhu
Kadakkavoor	Grama panchayat	Chirayinkeezhu
Kizhuvilam	Grama panchayat	Chirayinkeezhu
Mudakkal	Grama panchayat	Chirayinkeezhu
Kadinamkulam	Grama panchayat	Thiruvananthapuram
Mangalapuram	Grama panchayat	Thiruvananthapuram

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:

Key

  CPI

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
2011	13th	V. Sasi		Communist Party of India	2011 – 2016
2016	14th				2016 – 2021
2021	15th				2021 – 2026

Election results

Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.

2021

There were 1,99,220 registered voters in Chirayinkeezhu Constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyama Sabha Election.^[3]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Chirayinkeezhu

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	V. Sasi	62,634	43.17	3.58
	INC	B. S. Anoop	48,617	33.51	2.79
	BJP	G. S. Ashanath	30,986	21.36	7.24
	BSP	Anil Mangalapuram	1,097	0.76
	NOTA	None of the above	758	0.52
	WPOI	G. Anilkumar	616	0.42	0.27
	Independent	Anoop Gangan	372	0.26
Margin of victory			14,017	9.66	0.69
Turnout			1,45,080	72.82	2.60
	CPI hold		Swing	3.58

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 1,97,079 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.^[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Chirayinkeezhu

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	V. Sasi	64,692	46.75	6.18
	INC	K. S. Ajith Kumar	50,370	36.30	5.77
	BJP	P. P. Vava	19,478	14.08
	NOTA	None of the above	1,092	0.79
	WPOI	Sasi Panthalam	955	0.69
	Independent	Santhini	639	0.46
	PDP	Ambili V.	589	0.43
	Independent	Ajith Nandancode	226	0.15
	Independent	Shibu	206	0.15
	Independent	Ajith	133	0.10
Margin of victory			14,322	10.35	0.51
Turnout			1,38,380	70.22	3.98
	CPI hold		Swing	6.18

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,69,988 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[5]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Chirayinkeezhu

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	V. Sasi	59,601	52.93
	INC	K. Vidyadharan	47,376	42.07
	Independent	Aythiyoor Surendran	2,078	1.85
	BSP	Anil Mangalapuram	1,414	1.26
	Independent	Sajimon Chelayam	1,277	1.13
	LJP	Anilkumar B.	857	0.76
Margin of victory			12,225	10.86
Turnout			1,12,603	66.24
	CPI win (new seat)

See also

• Chirayinkeezhu
• Thiruvananthapuram district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election

References

1. "State Assembly Constituencies in Thiruvananthapuram district". trivandrum.nic.in. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
2. "Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Thiruvananthapuram District". www.ceo.kerala.gov.in.
3. "ceo.kerala.gov.in" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 April 2021.
4. "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
5. "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.