Taliparamba Assembly constituency

Taliparamba
Taliparamba
Constituency No. 8 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Government Medical College, Kannur is located at Pariyaram
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kannur
Established	1965
Total electors	2,13,096 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent M. V. Govindan
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Taliparamba 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 Kannur Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 Assembly elections, the current MLA is M. V. Govindan of CPI(M).

Local self-governed segments

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

Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Anthoor	Municipality	Taliparamba
2	Taliparamba	Municipality	Taliparamba
3	Chapparapadavu	Grama panchayat	Taliparamba
4	Kolachery	Grama panchayat	Taliparamba
5	Kurumathur	Grama panchayat	Taliparamba
6	Kuttiattoor	Grama panchayat	Taliparamba
7	Malapattam	Grama panchayat	Taliparamba
8	Mayyil	Grama panchayat	Taliparamba
9	Pariyaram	Grama panchayat	Taliparamba

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

Election	Niyama Sabha	Name		Tenure
1967	3rd	K. P. R. Poduval	Communist Party of India	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	C. P. Govindan Nambiar	Indian National Congress	1970 – 1977
1977	5th	M. V. Raghavan	Communist Party of India	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	C. P. Moosankutty		1980 – 1982
1982	7th	C. P. Moosankutty		1982 – 1987
1987	8th	K. K. N. Pariyaram		1987 – 1991
1991	9th	Pacheni Kunhiraman		1991 – 1996
1996	10th	M. V. Govindan		1996 – 2001
2001	11th	M. V. Govindan		2001 – 2006
2006	12th	C. K. P. Padmanabhan		2006 – 2011
2011	13th	James Mathew		2011 – 2016
2016	14th	James Mathew		2016-2021
2021	15th	M. V. Govindan		Incumbent


Status (Gram panchayat/municipality)	Votes

	UDF	LDF	NDA	Lead	Leading party
Anthoor Muncipality	3269	15618	1702	12349	LDF
Thaliparamba Muncipality	15084	9570	2442	5514	UDF
chapparappadave	10748	9461	1702	1287	UDF
Kurumathoor	7871	11126	2042	3255	LDF
Kuttiattoor	4776	10003	1151	5277	LDF
Malappattam	756	2173	193	1417	LDF
Mayyil	7292	10330	1127	3038	LDF
Pariyaram	8725	12459	1326	3734	LDF
Kolachery	10018	8508	1486	1510	UDF

There were 2,13,096 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 election.^[3]^[4]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Taliparamba
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	M. V. Govindan	92,870	52.14	4.81
	INC	V. P. Abdul Rasheed	70,181	39.40	−
	BJP	A. P. Gangadharan	13,058	7.33	1.88
	NOTA	None of the above	789	0.44	−
	Independent	K. O. P. Shijith	508	0.29	−
	Independent	Abdul Rasheed s/o Ismail	365	0.20	−
	Independent	C. Balakrishnan Yadav	191	0.11	−
	Independent	Govindan Karayapath	150	0.08	−
Margin of victory			22,689	10.74	14.65
Turnout			1,78,112	83.58	2.61
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	4.81

There were 1,97,568 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.^[5]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Taliparamba
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	James Mathew	91,106	56.95	0.82
	KC(M)	Rajesh Nambiar	50,489	31.56	5.27
	BJP	P. Balakrishnan	14,742	9.21	4.71
	SDPI	Ibrahim Thiruvatoor	1,323	0.83	0.51
	NOTA	None of the above	867	0.54	−
	BSP	P. K .Ayyappan	675	0.42	0.22
	Independent	K. Sadanandan	288	0.18	−
	Independent	K. Rajesh Kumar	287	0.18	−
	Independent	P. V. Anil	203	0.13	−
Margin of victory			40,617	25.39	6.09
Turnout			1,59,980	80.97	1.62
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	0.82

There were 1,74,788 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[6]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Taliparamba
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	James Mathew	81,031	56.13
	KC(M)	Job Michel	53,170	36.83
	BJP	K. Jayaprakash	6,492	4.50
	SDPI	Muhammadali S. P.	1,930	1.34
	BSP	Nidheesh Thillankeri	927	0.64
	Independent	Thomas M. V.	813	0.56
Margin of victory			27,861	19.30
Turnout			1,44,363	82.59
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Thaliparamba^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	T. C. Narayanan Nambiar	31,988	64.82%
	INC	V. V. Damodaran Nayanar	13,658	27.67%	27.67%
	Independent	N. Abuchengalan	2,002	4.06%
	Independent	K. V. George	1,704	3.45%
Margin of victory			18,330	37.14%
Turnout			49,352	67.24%
Registered electors			73,401
	CPI win (new seat)