| Elathur | |
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| Constituency No. 26 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
Korappuzha Bridge name board in the Elathur (State Assembly constituency)
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | South India |
| State | Kerala |
| District | Kozhikode |
| Established | 2011 – present |
| Total electors | 2,03,267 (2021) |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 15th Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | NCP |
| Alliance | LDF |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Elathur State assembly constituency 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 Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency.[1] As of the 2021 assembly election, the current MLA is A. K. SaseendranofNationalist Congress Party.
Elathur Niyama Sabha constituency is composed of the following 6 wards of the Kozhikode Municipal Corporation (Elathur) in Kozhikode Taluk, and 6 Gram Panchayats in the same Taluk:[2]
| Ward no. | Name | Ward no. | Name | Ward no. | Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elathur | 2 | Chettikulam | 3 | Eranjikkal |
| 4 | Puthur | 5 | Mokavur | 75 | Puthiyappa |
| Name | Local Body Type | Taluk |
|---|---|---|
| Chelannur | Grama panchayat | Kozhikode |
| Kakkodi | Grama panchayat | Kozhikode |
| Kakkur | Grama panchayat | Kozhikode |
| Kuruvattur | Grama panchayat | Kozhikode |
| Nanmanda | Grama panchayat | Kozhikode |
| Thalakkulathur | Grama panchayat | Kozhikode |
The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:
Key
| Election | Niyama
Sabha |
Member | Party | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13th | A. K. Saseendran | NCP | 2011 – 2016 | |
| 2016 | 14th | 2016 - 2021 | |||
| 2021 | 15th | Incumbent | |||
There were 2,03,267 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 election.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NCP | A. K. Saseendran | 83,639 | 50.89 |  2.24
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| DCK | Sulfikar Mayoori | 45,137 | 27.46 | − | |
| BJP | T. P. Jayachandran Master | 32,010 | 19.48 | 0.96
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| WPOI | Tahir Mokandi | 2,000 | 0.73 | − | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 986 | 0.48 | − | |
| Independent | P. K. Radhakrishnan | 580 | 0.35 | − | |
| Margin of victory | 38,502 | 23.43 | 4.93
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| Turnout | 1,64,350 | 80.85 |  2.43
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| NCP hold | Swing | 2.24
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There were 1,88,528 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.[4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NCP | A. K. Saseendran | 76,387 | 48.65 | 1.49
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| JD(U) | Kishen Chand | 47,450 | 30.15 | − | |
| BJP | Rajan Nair | 29,070 | 18.52 | 9.63
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| Independent | Krishnan | 1,724 | 1.10 | − | |
| BSP | Raghu | 1,142 | 0.73 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 986 | 0.63 | − | |
| Independent | Useffali P. M. | 367 | 0.23 | − | |
| Margin of victory | 29,057 | 18.50 | 7.56
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| Turnout | 1,57,006 | 83.28 | 1.04
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| NCP hold | Swing | 1.49
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There were 1,62,830 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[5]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NCP | A. K. Saseendran | 67,143 | 50.14 | − | |
| SJ(D) | Shaikh P. Harriz | 52,489 | 39.20 | − | |
| BJP | V. V. Rajan | 11,901 | 8.89 | − | |
| Independent | A. Sasindran | 1,402 | 1.05 | − | |
| BSP | Ramesh Nanmanda | 971 | 0.73 | − | |
| Margin of victory | 14,654 | 10.94 | |||
| Turnout | 1,57,006 | 82.24 | |||
| NCP win (new seat) | |||||
