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Varkala
Constituency No. 127 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
LS constituency	Attingal
Established	1957
Total electors	1,87,646 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent V. Joy
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Varkala 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. As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is V. Joy of CPI(M).

Local self governed segments

Varkala Niyamasabha constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments:

Members of Legislative Assembly

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

Key

  INC  CPI(M)  CPI

Election results

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

Niyamasabha Election 2021

There were 1,87,646 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 election.

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Varkala

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. Joy	68,816	50.89	9.46
	INC	Adv. BRM Shafeer	50,995	37.71	1.86
	BDJS	Aji S	11,214	8.29	7.21
	BSP	Anu M.C	1,948	1.44	0.03
	NOTA	None of the above	815	0.6	0.11
	Independent	Prince	658	0.49
	Democratic Human Rights Movement Party	Anilkumar P	460	0.34
	Independent	Shefeer	323	0.24
Margin of victory			17,821	13.18	11.32
Turnout			1,35,229	72.06	0.52
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	9.46

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 1,79,160 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Varkala

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. Joy	53,102	41.43	1.25
	INC	Varkala Kahar	50,716	39.57	12.83
	BDJS	Aji S. R. M.	19,872	15.50
	BSP	Varkala P. Linees	1,888	1.47
	NOTA	None of the above	628	0.49
	SDPI	Abdul Salam	466	0.36	0.36
	Independent	Sunil Kumar S.	357	0.28
	Independent	Sudevan	351	0.27
	PDP	Nadayara Jabbar	297	0.23
	Independent	Bhasidharan Nair	138	0.11
	Independent	Salu R.	135	0.11
	Independent	Varkala Sabesan	126	0.10
	Independent	Vivekanandan	101	0.08
Margin of victory			2,386	1.86
Turnout			1,28,177	71.54	1.01
	CPI(M) gain from INC		Swing

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,51,930 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.

Niyamasabha Election 2006

Niyamasabha Election 2001

See also

• Varkala
• 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. "Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021.
5. "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
6. "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.

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