Nemom Assembly constituency

Nemom
Constituency No. 135 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
Established	1957 - present
Total electors	2,04,240 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent V. Sivankutty
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Nemom 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 V. Sivankutty of CPI(M).

Local self governed segments

Nemom is composed of wards 37-39, 48-58 and 61-68 of the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation after the delimitation of the constituency in 2011:[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

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

Election	Niyama Sabha	Name	Party		Tenure
1957	1st	M. Sadasivan		Communist Party of India	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd	P. Viswambharan		Praja Socialist Party	1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	M. Sadasivan		Communist Party of India	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	G. Kuttapan		Praja Socialist Party	1970 – 1977
1977	5th	S. Varadarajan Nair		Indian National Congress	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	E. Ramesan Nair			1980 – 1982
1982	7th	K. Karunakaran			1982 – 1987
1987	8th	V. J. Thankappan		Communist Party of India	1987 – 1991
1991	9th				1991 – 1996
1996	10th	P. Bhaskaran Venganoor			1996 – 2001
2001	11th	N. Sakthan		Indian National Congress	2001 – 2006
2006	12th				2006 – 2011
Major delimitation of constituency
2011	13th	V. Sivankutty		Communist Party of India	2011 – 2016
2016	14th	O. Rajagopal		Bharatiya Janata Party	2016 - 2021
2021	15th	V. Sivankutty		Communist Party of India	Incumbent

Election results

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

2021

There were 2,04,240 registered voters in Nemom Constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Nemom

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. Sivankutty	55,837	38.24	3.15
	BJP	Kummanam Rajasekharan	51,888	35.54	11.92
	INC	K. Muraleedharan	36,524	25.10	15.40
	NOTA	None of the above	756	0.53	0.09
Majority			3,949	2.76	3.31
Turnout			1,42,578	69.81	4.43
	CPI(M) gain from BJP		Swing

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 1,92,459 registered voters in Nemom Constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Nemom

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	O. Rajagopal	67,813	47.46	9.97
	CPI(M)	V. Sivankutty	59,142	41.39	1.60
	JD(U)	V. Surendran Pillai[5]	13,860	9.70	7.68
	NOTA	None of the Above	884	0.62	N/A
Majority			8,671	6.07	0.57
Turnout			1,42,882	74.24	6.72
	BJP gain from CPI(M)		Swing	4.47

Niyamasabha election 2011

First election after the Major delimitation of constituency. Different from the previous Nemom Constituency. Presently, it includes the parts of Previous Thiruvananthapuram East & Nemom Constitutencies.There were 1,72,493 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[6]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Nemom

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. Sivankutty	50,076	42.99	1.20
	BJP	O. Rajagopal	43,661	37.49	31.90
	SJ(D)	Charupara Ravi	20,248	17.38	33.36
Majority			6,415	5.50	3.46
Turnout			1,16,474	67.52	0.65
	CPI(M) win (new seat)

Niyamasabha election 2006

There were 1,79,417 registered voters in the constituency for the 2006 election.[7]

2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Nemom

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	N. Sakthan	60,884	50.74
	CPI(M)	Venganoor P Bhaskaran	50,135	41.79
	BJP	Malayinkeezhu Radhakrishnan	6,705	5.59
Majority			10,749	8.96
Turnout			1,19,982	66.87
	INC hold		Swing

See also

• Nemom
• 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: Nemom". www.mapsofindia.com.
4. "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
5. The SJ(D) party merged with the JD(U) in 2015
6. "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
7. "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2006, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.