Ranni Assembly constituency

Ranni
Ranni
Constituency No. 112 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	A 33 Kilovolt Substation at Ranni-Perunad
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Pathanamthitta
Established	1957
Total electors	1,93,634 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Pramod Narayan
Elected year	2021

Ranni 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 Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 Assembly elections, the current member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is Pramod Narayanan of Kerala Congress (M).

Local self-governed segments

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

Sl no.	Name	Status (grama panchayat or municipality)	Taluk
1	Kottangal	Grama panchayat	Mallapally^[3]
2	Vechoochira	Grama panchayat	Ranni
3	Ranni-Perunad	Grama panchayat	Ranni
4	Naranammoozhy	Grama panchayat	Ranni
5	Ranni-Pazhavangadi	Grama panchayat	Ranni
6	Ranni-Angadi	Grama panchayat	Ranni
7	Kottanad	Grama panchayat	Mallapally
8	Ezhumattoor	Grama panchayat	Mallapally
9	Ayiroor	Grama panchayat	Ranni
10	Ranni	Grama panchayat	Ranni
11	Vadasserikkara	Grama panchayat	Ranni
12	Cherukole	Grama panchayat	Ranni

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented Ranni Assembly constituency during the period of various assemblies:^[4]

Key

CPI(M) INC CPI Independent KEC INC(U) IC(S)

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1957	1st	Vayala Idicula	INC		1957 – 1960
1960	2nd	Vayala Idicula	INC		1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	M . K . Divakaran		Communist Party of India	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	Jacob Skariah		Independent	1970 – 1977
1977	5th	K. A. Mathew		Kerala Congress	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	M. C. Cherian		Indian National Congress	1980 – 1982
1982	7th	Sunny Panavelil	IC(S)		1982 – 1986
1986*	7th	Rachel Sunny Panavelil	IC(S)		1986 – 1987
1987	8th	Eapen Varughese		Kerala Congress	1987 – 1991
1991	9th	M. C. Cherian		Indian National Congress	1991 – 1996
1996	10th	Raju Abraham	CPI(M)		1996 – 2001
2001	11th				2001 – 2006
2006	12th				2006 – 2011
2011	13th				2011 – 2016
2016	14th				2016-2021
2021	15th	Pramod Narayan		Kerala Congress	Incumbent

Election results

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

2021

There were 1,93,684 registered voters in Ranni Assembly constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.^[5]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Ranni
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KC(M)	Pramod Narayan	52,669	41.22
	INC	Rinku Cherian	51,384	40.21
	BDJS	Padmakumar K	19,587	15.33	4.73
	NOTA	None of the above	431	0.34
Margin of victory			1,285	1.01
Turnout			1,27,777	65.97	4.45
	KC(M) hold		Swing

2016

There were 1,90,196 registered voters in Ranni Assembly constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[6]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Ranni
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Raju Abraham	58,749	43.87%	4.64
	INC	Mariamma Cherian	44,153	32.97%	10.05
	BDJS	Padmakumar K.	28,201	21.06%
	BSP	Prasad Uthimoodu	1,072	0.80%	0.28
	SDPI	Fawseena Thakbeer	862	0.64%	0.11
	NOTA	None of the above	438	0.33%
	Independent	Geethamma Madhavan	298	0.22%
	Independent	Varughese Thomas	154	0.11%
Margin of victory			14,596	10.90%	5.42
Turnout			1,33,927	70.42%	1.90
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	4.64

2011

There were 1,75,669 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[7]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Ranni
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Raju Abraham	58,391	48.51%
	INC	Peelipose Thomas	51,777	43.02%
	BJP	Suresh Kadambari	7,442	6.18%
	BSP	V. D. Saji Mon	1,300	1.08%
	SDPI	Ibrahim Kutty	905	0.75%
	Independent	S. Radhakrishan	350	0.29%
	Independent	Ulakan Thevan	196	0.16%
Margin of victory			6,614	5.42%
Turnout			1,20,361	68.52%
	CPI(M) hold		Swing