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Nadapuram
Nadapuram
Constituency No. 22 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Nadapuram Junction in the Nadapuram (State Assembly constituency)
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kozhikode
Established	1957
Total electors	2,16,141 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent E. K. Vijayan
Party	CPI
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Nadapuram State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Vatakara Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is E. K. Vijayan of CPI.

Local self-governed segments

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

Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Chekkiad	Grama panchayat	Vatakara
2	Edacheri	Grama panchayat	Vatakara
3	Kavilumpara	Grama panchayat	Vatakara
4	Kayakkodi	Grama Panchayat	Vatakara
5	Maruthonkara	Grama panchayat	Vatakara
6	Nadapuram	Grama panchayat	Vatakara
7	Narippatta	Grama panchayat	Vatakara
8	Thuneri	Grama panchayat	Vatakara
9	Valayam	Grama panchayat	Vatakara
10	Vanimal	Grama panchayat	Vatakara

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

Election	Niyama Sabha	Name		Tenure
1957	1st	C. H. Kanaran	Communist Party of India	1957–1960
1960	2nd	Hameed Ali Shemnad	Indian Union Muslim League	1960–1965
1967	3rd	E. V. Kumaran	Communist Party of India	1967–1970
1970	4th	Kumaran Madathil	Communist Party of India	1970–1977
1977	5th	Kandalottu Kunhambu		1977–1980
1980	6th	K. T. Kanaran		1980–1982
1982	7th	K. T. Kanaran		1982–1987
1987	8th	Sathyan Mokeri		1987–1991
1991	9th			1991–1996
1996	10th			1996–2001
2001	11th	Binoy Viswam		2001–2006
2006	12th	Binoy Viswam		2006–2011
2011	13th	E. K. Vijayan		2011–2016
2016	14th			2016–2021
2021	15th			Incumbent

There were 201,719 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 election.

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Nadapuram
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	E. K. Vijayan	83,293	47.46	2.00
	INC	Praveenkumar	79,258	45.16	2.00
	BJP	M. P. Rajan	10,537	6.00	2.80
	SDPI	K. K. Nasar Master	1,676	0.95	0.39
	NOTA	None of the above	316	0.18	−0.09
	Independent	T.praveen Kumar	258	0.15	–
	Independent	Sreedharan K K	165	0.10	–
Margin of victory			4,035	2.12	0.60
Turnout			162,950	80.5	0.27

There were 2,01,719 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.^[3]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Nadapuram
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	E. K. Vijayan	74,742	45.87	3.35
	INC	Praveenkumar	69,983	42.95	1.12
	BJP	M. P. Rajan	14,493	8.90	4.76
	SDPI	C. K. Abdul Rahim	2,183	1.34	0.07
	NOTA	None of the above	446	0.27	–
	BSP	K. K. Vasu	377	0.23	–
	Independent	E. K. Vijayan Komath	220	0.14	–
	Independent	Praveenkumar Thayyullathil	163	0.10	–
	Independent	Aluva Aneesh	151	0.09	–
Margin of victory			4,759	2.92	3.35
Turnout			1,62,929	80.77	1.50
	CPI hold		Swing	3.35

There were 1,77,993 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[4]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Nadapuram
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	E. K. Vijayan	72,078	49.22
	INC	V. M .Chandran	64,532	44.07
	BJP	Prakash Babu	6,058	4.14
	SDPI	Ismail Kammana	1,865	1.27	–
	Independent	Chandran	745	0.51
	Independent	C. K. Vijayan	708	0.48
	Independent	K. P. Vijayan	444	0.30
Margin of victory			7,546	5.15
Turnout			1,46,430	82.27
	CPI hold		Swing

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Nadapuram^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	E. K. Sankara Varma Raja	18,173	40.86%	40.86%
	CPI	K. Thacharakandy	16,572	37.26%
	Socialist	Sreedhara Arangil	9,736	21.89%
Margin of victory			1,601	3.60%
Turnout			44,481	70.96%
Registered electors			62,684
	INC win (new seat)