# Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency

Vattiyoorkavu State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is V. K. Prasanth of CPI(M).
Vattiyoorkavu constituency came into existence in 2011. Before it was known as Trivandrum North Constituency from 1977 to 2011, and Trivandrum-II constituency from 1957 to 1977.

## Local self governed segments

Vattiyoorkavu Legislative Assembly Constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments:
| Sl no. | Name | Wards | Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality/Municipal Corporation) | Taluk |
| 1 | Thiruvananthapuram | 24 wards | Municipal Corporation | Thiruvananthapuram |

## Members of the Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented Vattiyoorkavu Legislative Assembly Constituency during the period of various assemblies:
As Trivandrum-II
| Election | Member | Party |
| 1957 | Pattom Thanu Pillai | Praja Socialist Party |
| 1960 | Pattom Thanu Pillai | Praja Socialist Party |
| 1967 | K. C. Vamadevan | Independent |
| 1970 | K. Pankajakshan | Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) |
As Trivandrum North
| Election | Member | Party |
| 1977 | K. Ravindran Nair | Independent |
| 1980 | K. Anirudhan | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1982 | G. Karthikeyan | Indian National Congress |
| 1987 | M. Vijayakumar | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1991 | M. Vijayakumar | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1996 | M. Vijayakumar | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 2001 | K. Mohankumar | Indian National Congress |
| 2006 | M. Vijayakumar | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
As Vattiyoorkavu
| Election | Member | Party |
| 2011 | K. Muraleedharan | Indian National Congress |
| 2016 | K. Muraleedharan | Indian National Congress |
| 2019* | V. K. Prasanth | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 2021 | V. K. Prasanth | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
* * Byepoll

## Election results
### Niyamasabha election 2021

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

#### Partywise Results

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vattiyoorkavu :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | CPI(M) | V. K. Prasanth | 61,111 | 44.40 | 0.15 |
| | BJP | V. V. Rajesh | 39,596 | 28.77 | 6.61 |
| | INC | Veena S. Nair | 35655 | 25.76 | 6.82 |
| | BSP | N. Murali | 890 | 0.3 | |
| | SDPI | A. Shyju | 201 | 0.15 | |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 109 | 0.62 | 0.04 |
| Margin of victory | Margin of victory | Margin of victory | 21,515 | 15.63 | 3.96 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,37,636 | | |
| | CPI(M) hold | CPI(M) hold | Swing | 0.15 | |

### Niyamasabha By-election 2019

Due to the election of the sitting MLA K. Muraleedharan as the MP from Vatakara (Lok Sabha constituency), Vattiyoorkavu Constituency went to bypoll in 2019. There were 1,97,570 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Constituency for this election. V. K. Prashanth won by 14,465 votes in the subsequent election conducted in October 2019.
2019 Kerala Legislative Assembly by-elections: Vattiyoorkavu :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | CPI(M) | V. K. Prasanth | 54,830 | 44.25% | 14.46 |
| | INC | K. Mohankumar | 40,365 | 32.58% | 5.23 |
| | BJP | S. Suresh | 27,453 | 22.16% | 10.03 |
| | NOTA | None of the Above | 820 | 0.66% | 0.06 |
| | Independent | A.Mohanakumar | 135 | 0.11% | N/A |
| | Independent | Nagaraj G. | 100 | 0.08% | N/A |
| | Independent | Suresh S. S. | 93 | 0.08% | N/A |
| | Independent | Murukan A. | 76 | 0.06% | N/A |
| | Independent | Mithran G. | 38 | 0.03% | N/A |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 14,465 | 11.67% | 6.06 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,23,910 | 62.66% | 7.17 |
| | CPI(M) gain from INC | CPI(M) gain from INC | Swing | 14.46 | |

### Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 1,95,239 registered voters in Vattiyoorkavu Constituency for the 2016 Kerala legislative assembly Election.
2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vattiyoorkavu :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | INC | K. Muraleedharan | 51,322 | 37.81 | 12.38 |
| | BJP | Kummanam Rajasekharan | 43,700 | 32.19 | 20.21 |
| | CPI(M) | T. N. Seema | 40,441 | 29.79 | 6.05 |
| | BSP | Mekkansi K. John | 399 | 0.29 | N/A |
| | NOTA | None of the Above | 816 | 0.60 | N/A |
| | Independent | Binu D. | 147 | 0.11 | |
| | Independent | Sahadevan | 104 | 0.08 | |
| | Independent | K. G. Mohanan | 77 | 0.06 | |
| | Independent | Baby D. | 53 | 0.04 | |
| | Independent | Saju Ameerdas | 48 | 0.04 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 7,622 | 5.56 | 8.79 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,37,108 | 70.23 | 6.01 |
| | INC hold | INC hold | Swing | 12.38 | |

### Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,75,398 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.
2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Vattiyoorkavu :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | INC | K. Muraleedharan | 56,531 | 50.19 | |
| | Independent | Cheriyan Phillip | 40,364 | 35.84 | |
| | BJP | V. V. Rajesh | 13,494 | 11.98 | |
| | BSP | Kaithakodu Radhakrishnan | 915 | 0.81 | |
| | Independent | Cheriyan P. T. | 551 | 0.49 | |
| | Independent | Rajan K. | 488 | 0.08 | |
| | Independent | G. Balakrishnan Nair | 294 | 0.26 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 16,167 | 14.35 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,12,637 | 64.22 | |
| | INC win (new seat) | INC win (new seat) | INC win (new seat) | INC win (new seat) | INC win (new seat) |