Vattiyoorkavu State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala. It is also one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2026 Assembly elections, the current MLA is K. Muraleedharan of the INC who is also the current Minister of Health and Devaswom, in the Government of Kerala.
Local self-governed segments Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:
Sl no.NameWardsStatus (Grama panchayat/Municipality/Municipal Corporation)Taluk1Thiruvananthapuram 24 wardsMunicipal CorporationThiruvananthapuram
Members of the Legislative Assembly The following list consists of all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency during the period of various assemblies:
Trivandrum-II ElectionMemberParty1957Pattom Thanu PillaiPraja Socialist Party19601967K. C. VamadevanIndependent1970K. PankajakshanRevolutionary Socialist Party (India)
Trivandrum North ElectionMemberParty1977K. Ravindran NairIndependent1980K. AnirudhanCommunist Party of India (Marxist)1982G. KarthikeyanIndian National Congress1987M. VijayakumarCommunist Party of India (Marxist)199119962001K. MohankumarIndian National Congress2006M. VijayakumarCommunist Party of India (Marxist)
Vattiyoorkavu ElectionMemberParty2011K. MuraleedharanIndian National Congress20162019*V. K. PrasanthCommunist Party of India (Marxist)20212026K. MuraleedharanIndian National Congress
*by-election
Election results
2026
2021 Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
2019 by-election Due to the election of the sitting MLA K. Muraleedharan as the MP from Vatakara Lok Sabha constituency, Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency held a by-election in 2019. There were 1,97,570 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency for this election. V. K. Prashanth won by 14,465 votes in the subsequent election conducted in October 2019.
2016 There were 1,95,239 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency for the 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election.
2011 There were 1,75,398 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.
Trivandrum North (before Delimitation in 2008)
2006
2001 There were 2,11,264 registered voters in the constituency for the 2001 election.
1996 There were 1,87,779 registered voters in the constituency for the 1996 election.
1991 There were 1,73,461 registered voters in the constituency for the 1991 election.
1987 There were 1,40,159 registered voters in the constituency for the 1987 election.
1982 There were 1,06,347 registered voters in the constituency for the 1982 election.
See also Vattiyoorkavu Thiruvananthapuram district List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election 2019 Kerala Legislative Assembly by-elections
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