Chittur (Kerala) Assembly Constituency Elections

About Chittur Assembly Constituency

Chittur is constituency No. 58 of Kerala legislative assembly. It is situated in Palakkad district and comes under the Alathur Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency. The corresponding Alathur Lok Sabha constituency is reserved for scheduled castes. According to the Election Commission of India, Chittur has 1,67,800 registered voters. It comprises 82,815 male and 84,985 female registered voters.

In the 2011 assembly elections, this seat was won by INC candidate K. Achuthan. Achuthan got 69,916 votes and beat his nearest contender by a margin of 12,330 votes. With 57,586 votes, CPI(M) candidate S. Subhash Chandrabose was the runner-up. The voter turnout was 81.18 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Chittur Assembly Constituency

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Chittur assembly elections conducted so far.

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
1957	77	Chittur	(SC)	Balachandra Menon P.	M	CPI	23995	Eacharan K.	M	INC	22062
1960	77	Chittur	GEN	P. Balachandra Menon	M	CPI	48241	Narayanan Thandan	M	CPI	48156
1965	45	Chittur	GEN	K. A. Sivarama Bharathy	M	SSP	24630	Leela Damodara Menon	F	INC	17100
1967	45	Chittur	GEN	K.A.S.Bharathy	M	SSP	23985	A.S.Sahib	M	INC	17174
1970	45	Chittur	GEN	K. A. Sivaama Bharrathy	M	SOP	24579	Sunna Sahib	M	NCO	13152
1977	50	Chittur	GEN	P. Sankar	M	CPI	28698	K. A. Sivarama Bharathy	M	BLD	21121
1980	50	Chittur	GEN	K. Krishnankutty	M	JNP	23882	P. Sankar	M	CPI	23578
1982	50	Chittur	GEN	K. Krishnankutty	M	JNP	37527	Mullappally Ramachandran	M	INC	31884
1987	50	Chittur	GEN	K.A. Chandran	M	INC	49112	K. Krishnamurty	M	JNP	40875
1991	50	Chittur	GEN	K. Krishnankutty	M	JD	47281	K.A. Chandran	M	INC	44170
1996	50	Chittur	GEN	Achuthan,K.	M	INC	47894	K.Krishnan Kutty	M	JD	47458
2001	50	Chittur	GEN	K.Achuthan Chalakalam	M	INC	59512	K.Krishnankutty Ezhuthanikalam	M	JD(S)	45703
2006	50	Chittur	GEN	K Achuthan	M	INC	55352	Ezhuthani K. Krishnankutty	M	JD(S)	53340
2011	58	Chittur	GEN	K.Achuthan	M	INC	69916	S. Subhash Chandrabose	M	CPM	57586
2016	58	Chittur	GEN	K. Krishna Kutty	M	JD(S)	69270	K. Achuthan	M	INC	61985
2021	58	Chittur	GEN	K.Krishna Kutty	M	JD(S)	84672	S. Achuthan	M	INC	50794