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Kottayam
Constituency No. 97 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
CMS College Kottayam, the oldest existing college in India, established in 1815.
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kottayam
Established	1957–present
Total electors	128,625 (2016)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan
Party	INC
Alliance	UDF
Elected year	2019Kerala Legislative Assembly election

Kottayam 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 Kottayam Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2016 assembly elections, the current MLA is Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan of INC.

Local self-governed segments

Kottayam Niyama Sabha constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

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

Niyamasabha election 2016

There were 164,097 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kottayam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan	73,894	57.46	10.62
	CPI(M)	Reji Sakaria	40,262	31.31	14.92
	BJP	M. S. Karunakaran	12,582	9.78	5.04
	BSP	P. K. Geetha Krishnan	651	0.51	1.00
	NOTA	None of the above	483	0.38	−
	SP	Roy Chemmanam	403	0.31	−
	SUCI(C)	Rejitha Jayaram	182	0.14	0.10
	Independent	John Joy	88	0.07	−
	Independent	Payas C. P.	58	0.05	−
Margin of victory			33,632	26.15	25.54
Turnout			1,28,603	78.37	0.85
	INC hold		Swing	10.62

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 148,225 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.

See also

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

References

1. "State Assembly Constituencies in Kottayam district". kottayam.nic.in. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
2. "Local Self Governments in Assembly Constituencies of Kottayam District". www.ceo.kerala.gov.in.
3. "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
4. "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.

• Assembly constituencies of Kerala
• State assembly constituencies in Kottayam district