Piravom (Kerala) Assembly Constituency Elections

About Piravom Assembly Constituency

Piravom is constituency No. 85 of Kerala legislative assembly. It is situated in Ernakulam district and comes under Kottayam Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency. According to the Election Commission of India, Piravom assembly constituency has 1,76,302 registered voters. It comprises 87,519 male and 88,783 female registered voters. In the 2011 Assembly elections, this constituency was won by the Kerala Congress (Jacob). The winning margin was just 157 votes. T.M. Jacob, the victorious KEC(J) candidate, got 66,503 votes. The runner-up was CPI(M) candidate M.J. Jacob who got 66,346 votes. The voter turnout was 79.37 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Piravom Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
1977	79	Piravom	GEN	T. M. Jacob	M	KEC	35598	Alunkal Devassy	M	BLD	29868
1980	79	Piravom	GEN	P. C. Chaeko	M	INC(U)	38659	C. Paulose	M	IND	35408
1982	79	Piravom	GEN	Benny Behanan	M	IND	35451	Raman Kartha	M	JNP	33655
1987	79	Piravom	GEN	Gopi Kottamunikkal	M	CPM	41614	Benny Behanan	M	INC	25314
1991	79	Piravom	GEN	T.M. Jacob	M	KCM	53751	Gopi Kottamurickal	M	CPM	50804
1996	79	Piravom	GEN	T.M.Jacob	M	KEC(J)	51873	C.Poulose	M	IND	44165
2001	79	Piravom	GEN	T M Jacob	M	KEC(J)	63791	Gopi Kottamurikal	M	CPM	51071
2006	79	Piravom	GEN	M J Jacob	M	CPI(M)	52903	T M Jacob	M	DIC	47753
2011	85	Piravom	GEN	T. M. Jacob	M	KEC(J)	66503	M.J.Jacob	M	CPM	66346
2012	By Polls	Piravom	GEN	Adv. Anoop Jacob	M	KEC (J)	82756	M.J.Jacob	M	CPI (M)	70686