Ottapalam Assembly constituency

Ottapalam
Ottapalam
Constituency No. 52 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Ottapalam town
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Palakkad
Established	1957
Total electors	2,07,723 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent K. Premkumar
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Ottapalam 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 Palakkad Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 Assembly elections, the current MLA is K. Premkumar of CPI(M).

Local self-governed segments

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

Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Ottapalam	Municipality	Ottapalam
2	Ambalappara	Grama panchayat	Ottapalam
3	Kadampazhipuram	Grama panchayat	Ottapalam
4	Karimpuzha	Grama panchayat	Ottapalam
5	Lakkidi-Perur	Grama panchayat	Ottapalam
6	Pookkottukavu	Grama panchayat	Ottapalam
7	Sreekrishnapuram	Grama panchayat	Ottapalam
8	Thachanattukara	Grama panchayat	Mannarkkad

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

Election	Niyama Sabha	Name		Tenure
1957	1st	P. V. Kunhunni Nair	Communist Party of India	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd	P. V. Kunhunni Nair	Communist Party of India	1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	P. P. Krishnan	Communist Party of India	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	P. P. Krishnan	Communist Party of India	1970 – 1977
1977	5th	P. Balan	Indian National Congress	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	V. C. Kabeer	Indian National Congress	1980 – 1982
1982	7th	V. C. Kabeer	Independent	1982 – 1987
1987	8th	K. Sankaranarayanan	Indian National Congress	1987 – 1991
1991	9th	V. C. Kabeer	Indian Congress	1991 – 1996
1996	10th		Indian Congress	1996 – 2001
2001	11th		Nationalist Congress Party	2001 – 2006
2006	12th	M. Hamsa	Communist Party of India	2006 – 2011
2011	13th	M. Hamsa		2011 – 2016
2016	14th	P. Unni		2016 – 2021
2021	15th	K. Premkumar		Incumbent

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

There were 2,07,723 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 election.^[3]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Ottapalam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	K. Premkumar	74,859	46.45	1.74
	INC	P. Sarin	59,707	37.05	3.05
	BJP	P. Venugopalan	25,056	15.55	2.83
	BSP	P. P. Sivan	672	0.42	0.12
	NOTA	None of the above	867	0.64	−
Margin of victory			15,152	9.96	0.78
Turnout			1,61,509	77.75	1.75
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	1.65

There were 1,97,646 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.^[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Ottapalam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	P. Unni	67,161	44.71	4.76
	INC	Shanimol Usman	51,073	34.00	5.43
	BJP	P. Venugopalan	27,605	18.38	11.05
	SDPI	A. A. Sulfikar	1,166	0.78	0.69
	NOTA	None of the above	1,012	0.67	−
	BSP	K. T. Padmini	811	0.54	0.18
	Independent	S. R. Prakash	805	0.54	−
	SS	M. S. Suneesh	399	0.27	−
	Independent	Suresh Velayudhan	180	0.12	−
Margin of victory			16,088	10.71	0.67
Turnout			1,50,212	76.00	0.92
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	4.76

There were 1,75,066 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[5]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Ottapalam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	M. Hamza	65,023	49.47	−
	INC	V. K. Sreekandan	51,820	39.43
	BJP	P. Venugopalan	9,631	7.33
	SDPI	E. S. Kajahussain	1,933	1.47
	Independent	M. Hamza	1,097	0.83	−
	BSP	K. T. Padmini	947	0.72	−
	Independent	N. Hamza	604	0.46	0.31
	Independent	Aravindan Karimpuzha	379	0.29	−
Margin of victory			13,203	10.04
Turnout			1,31,434	75.08
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Ottappalam^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KMPP	M. Narayana Kurup	12,277	33.74%
	INC	C. P. Madhavan Nair	9,518	26.16%	26.16%
	Socialist	T. Madhavan Nair	8,185	22.50%
	Independent	C. Krishnan Nair	5,571	15.31%
	Independent	C. P. Narayaana Menon	832	2.29%
Margin of victory			2,759	7.58%
Turnout			36,383	56.69%
Registered electors			64,179
	KMPP win (new seat)