Thiruvananthapuram Assembly constituency

Thiruvananthapuram
Constituency No. 134 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
Established	2011 - present
Total electors	2,00,281 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Adv. Antony Raju
Party	JKC
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Thiruvananthapuram State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is Adv. Antony Raju of JKC.

Thiruvananthapuram constituency came into existence in 2011. Before it was known as Trivandrum West Constituency from 1977 to 2011, and Trivandrum-I constituency from 1957 to 1977.

Local self governed segments

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

Sl no.	Name	Ward no.	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality/Municipal Corporation)	Taluk
1	Thiruvananthapuram	26-30 40-47 59-60 69-75 77-78 80	Municipal Corporation	Thiruvananthapuram

Members of Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented Thiruvananthapuram Niyamasabha Constituency during the period of various assemblies:^[3]

Key

  PSP   SSP   RSP   IUML   INC   KEC   CMP  JKC

As Trivandrum-I

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1957	1st	E. P. Eapen	PSP		1957 – 1960
1960	2nd				1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	B. M. Nair	SSP		1967 – 1970
1970	4th	N. Gopala Pillai	PSP		1970 – 1977

As Trivandrum West

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1977	5th	K. Pankajakshan	RSP		1977 – 1980
1980	6th	P. A. Muhammad Kannu	IUML		1980 – 1982
1982	7th				1982 – 1987
1987	8th	M. M. Hassan	INC		1987 – 1991
1991	9th				1991 – 1996
1996	10th	Antony Raju	KEC		1996 – 2001
2001	11th	M. V. Raghavan	CMP		2001 – 2006
2006	12th	V. Surendran Pillai	KEC		2006 – 2011

As Thiruvananthapuram

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
2011	13th	V. S. Sivakumar	INC		2011 – 2016
2016	14th				2016 - 2021
2021	15th	Adv. Antony Raju	JKC		Incumbent

Election results

2021

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

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvananthapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JKC	Antony Raju	48,748	38.01	9.83
	INC	V. S. Sivakumar	41,669	32.49	4.33
	BJP	Krishnakumar	34,996	27.89	0.35
	NOTA	None of the Above	1054	0.82	0.32
Majority			7,079	5.52
Turnout
	JKC gain from INC		Swing

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 1,93,101 registered voters in Thiruvananthapuram Constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.^[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvananthapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	V. S. Sivakumar	46,474	36.82%	9.05
	JKC	Antony Raju	35,569	28.18%
	BJP	S. Sreesanth	34,764	27.54%	16.78
	AIADMK	Biju Ramesh	5,762	4.57%
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,435	1.14%
	Independent	Nandavanam Suseelan	450	0.36%
	Independent	Antony Raju New Colony	424	0.34%
	BSP	Mohanambika .D	398	0.32%
	SUCI(C)	P. S. Gopakumar	344	0.27%	0.05
	Independent	Sivakumar Raveendran Nair	208	0.16%
	Independent	Praveen Arimbrathodiyil	170	0.13%
	Independent	M. S. Subi	113	0.09%
	Independent	Sivakumar Pushkaran	101	0.08%
Majority			10,905	8.64%	3.64
Turnout			1,26,212	65.36%	5.01
	INC hold		Swing	9.05

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,77,442 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[5]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvananthapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	V. S. Sivakumar	49,122	45.87%
	KEC	V. Surendran Pillai	43,770	40.87%
	BJP	B. K .Sekhar	11,519	10.76%
	SDPI	Abdu Razak A.	807	0.75%
	Independent	P. Surendran Pillai	518	0.48%
	Independent	S. Sivakumar	485	0.45%
	SUCI(C)	P. S. Gopakumar	235	0.22%
	Independent	N. Sivakumar	221	0.21%
	Independent	Sundaran Pillai	207	0.19%
	Independent	C. Vasantha Kumar	110	0.10%
	Independent	George Mankidan	98	0.09%
Majority			5,352	5.00%
Turnout			1,07,092	60.35%
	INC win (new seat)

See also

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

References

1. "State Assembly Constituencies in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala". trivandrum.nic.in.
2. "Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Thiruvananthapuram District". www.ceo.kerala.gov.in.
3. "Members of Kerala Legislative Assembly: Thiruvananthapuram". www.mapsofindia.com.
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.