Attingal Assembly constituency

Attingal
Attingal
Constituency No. 128 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Kilimanoor town in the constituency.
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
Lok Sabha constituency	Attingal
Established	1957
Total electors	2,02,123 (2021)
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent O S Ambika
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Attingal 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 Attingal Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is O. S. Ambika of CPI(M).

Local self-governed segments

Attingal Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:^[2]

Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
Attingal	Municipality	Chirayinkeezhu
Karavaram	Grama panchayat	Chirayinkeezhu
Kilimanoor	Grama panchayat	Chirayinkeezhu
Nagaroor	Grama panchayat	Chirayinkeezhu
Pazhayakunnummel	Grama panchayat	Chirayinkeezhu
Pulimath	Grama panchayat	Chirayinkeezhu
Vakkom	Grama panchayat	Chirayinkeezhu
Cherunniyoor	Grama panchayat	Varkala
Manamboor	Grama panchayat	Varkala
Ottoor	Grama panchayat	Varkala

The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented the constituency:^[3]

Election	Member
1957	R. Prakasam	Communist Party of India
1960	N. Kunjuraman	Indian National Congress
1967	K. P. K. Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1970	Vakkom Purushothaman	Indian National Congress
1977		Indian National Congress
1980		Indian National Congress (U)
1982		Independent
1985*	P. Vijayadas	Indian Congress (Socialist)
1987	Anathalavattom Anandan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991	T. Sarath Chandra Prasad	Indian National Congress
1996	Anathalavattom Anandan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2001	Vakkom Purushothaman	Indian National Congress
2006	Anathalavattom Anandan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2011	B. Satyan
2016	B. Satyan
2021	O. S. Ambika

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

There were 2,02,123 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.^[4]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Attingal
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	O. S. Ambika	69,898	47.35	5.36
	BJP	P. Sudheer	38,262	25.92	5.94
	RSP	A. Sreedharan	36,938	25.02	1.55
	NOTA	None of the above	1,071	0.72
	BSP	Vipinlal Vidhyadharan	927	0.63	0.06
	Independent	Ambili	191	0.13	−
Margin of victory			31,636	21.43	7.81
Turnout			1,47,626	73.04	3.51
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	5.36

There were 1,98,678 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[5]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Attingal
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	B. Satyan	72,808	52.71	2.73
	RSP	K. Chandrababu	32,425	23.47
	BJP	Raji Prasad	27,602	19.98	15.75
	SDPI	M. K. Manoj Kumar	1,437	1.04	0.32
	NOTA	None of the above	1,267	0.92
	BSP	K. Sivanandan	789	0.57	0.51
	Independent	Rajesh R.	639	0.46
	SS	B. Jayanthakumar	597	0.43
	Independent	C. R. Thulasi	411	0.30
	Independent	Pratheeshkumar P.	162	0.12
Margin of victory			40,383	29.24	3.02
Turnout			1,38,137	69.53	2.76
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	2.73

There were 1,71,684 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[6]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Attingal
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	B. Satyan	63,558	55.44
	INC	Thankamony Divakaran	33,493	29.22
	Independent	Attingal Suresh	7,857	6.85
	BJP	P. P. Vava	4,844	4.23
	Independent	V. V. Selvaraj	1,713	1.49
	SDPI	K. G. Soman	1,561	1.36
	BSP	M. Chinamma	1,235	1.08
	Independent	G. Anirudhan	377	0.33
Margin of victory			30,065	26.22
Turnout			1,14,638	66.77
	CPI(M) hold		Swing