Payyanur (State Assembly constituency)

Payyanur State assembly constituency (Malayalam: പയ്യന്നൂർ നിയമസഭാ നിയോജക മണ്ഡലം) is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Kasaragod Lok Sabha constituency. [1]

6 Payyanur പയ്യന്നൂർ
Constituency for the Kerala Niyamasabha
The Kavvayi Backwaters in the Payyanur (State Assembly constituency).
Existence	1957 - present
Reservation	None
Electorate	1,75,438 (2016)
Current MLA	C. Krishnan
Party	CPI(M)
Political Front	LDF
Elected Year	2016
District	Kannur

Members of Legislative Assembly

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

Key

  CPI (M)  

Election	Niyamasabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1967	3rd	A. V. Kunhagbu	CPI(M)		1967 – 1970
1970	4th				1970 – 1977
1977	5th	N. Subrammaniya Shenoy			1977 – 1980
1980	6th				1980 – 1982
1982	7th	M. V. Raghavan			1982 – 1987
1987	8th	C. P. Narayanan			1987 – 1991
1991	9th				1991 – 1996
1996	10th	Pinarayi Vijayan			1996 – 2001
2001	11th	P. K. Sreemathi			2001 – 2006
2006	12th				2006 – 2011
2011	13th	C. Krishnan			2011 – 2016
2016	14th				Incumbent

Election results

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 1,75,438 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.[2]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Payyanur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	CPI (M)	C. Krishnan	83,226	58.02	1.73
	INC	Sajid Mavval	42,963	29.95	5.25
	BJP	Aniamma	15,341	10.69	6.85
	NOTA	None of the above	1,042	0.73	-
	CPI (M)	Vinod Kumar Ramanthali	870	0.61	-
Margin of victory			40,263	28.07	4.44
Turnout			1,43,442	81.76	2.43
	CPI (M) hold		Swing	1.73

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,58,613 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[3]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Payyanur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	CPI (M)	C. Krishnan	78,116	59.78
	INC	K. Brijesh Kumar	45,992	35.20
	BJP	C. K. Ramesan	5,019	3.84
	BSP	Geetha	625	0.48
	Independent	T. Padmanabhan	636	0.41
	SHS	Kottayodi Vishwanathan	378	0.29
Margin of victory			32,124	23.98
Turnout			1,24,854	79.33
	CPI (M) hold		Swing

See also

• Payyanur
• Kannur district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election

References

1. "State Assembly Constituencies in Kannur district, Kerala". kannur.nic.in.
2. "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
3. "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.