Ponnani (Kerala) Assembly Constituency Elections

About Ponnani Assembly Constituency

Ponnani is constituency No. 48 of Kerala legislative assembly. It is situated in Malappuram district and comes under Ponnani Lok Sabha constituency. It is an unreserved assembly seat. According to the Election Commission of India, Ponnani has 1,58,680 registered voters. It comprises 74,353 male, and 84,327 female registered voters. In the 2011 assembly elections, this assembly seat was won by the CPI(M). P. Sreeramakrishnan, the winning candidate, secured 57,615 votes. He defeated his nearest contender by a narrow margin of 4,101 votes. Congress candidate P.T. Ajay Mohan was the runner-up with 53,514 votes. The voter turnout was 76.36%.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Ponnani Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
1957	74	Ponnani	(SC)	Kunhambu Kallayan	M	INC	22784	Kunhan Eliyath Tharayil	M	CPI	20535
1960	74	Ponnani	GEN	Kunhambu Kallen	M	INC	45326	Cherukoya Thangal	M	ML	43360
1965	35	Ponnani	GEN	K.G. Karunakaramenon	M	INC	15881	V.P.C. Thangal	M	ML	14609
1967	35	Ponnani	GEN	V.P.C.Thangal	M	MUL	30251	K.G.K.Menon	M	INC	16430
1970	36	Ponnani	GEN	Hajee M. V. Hydros	M	IND	31329	V. P. Cherukoyathangal	M	MUL	27207
1977	39	Ponnani	GEN	M. P. Gangadharan	M	INC	38083	E. K. Imbichi Bava	M	CPM	28334
1980	39	Ponnani	GEN	K. Sreedharan	M	CPM	38791	P. T. Kohanakrishnan	M	INC(I)	36475
1982	39	Ponnani	GEN	M. P. Gangadharan	M	INC	33187	K. Sreedaran	M	CPM	33094
1987	39	Ponnani	GEN	P. T. Mohanakrishnan	M	INC	44432	E.K. Imbichi Bava	M	CPM	42299
1991	39	Ponnani	GEN	E.K. Imbichibava	M	CPM	49264	P.T. Mohankrishnan	M	INC	44180
1996	39	Ponnani	GEN	Muhammedkutty Paloli	M	CPM	49594	P.T.Mohanakrishnan	M	INC	40976
2001	39	Ponnani	GEN	M.P.Gangadharan	M	INC	58054	T.K.Hamza	M	CPM	51447
2006	39	Ponnani	GEN	Paloli Mohamedkutty	M	CPI(M)	63018	M.P. Gangadharan	M	34648	34671
2011	48	Ponnani	GEN	P.Sreeramakrishnan	M	CPM	57615	P.T.Ajay Mohan	M	INC	53514
2016	48	Ponnani	GEN	P.Sreeramakrishnan	M	CPM	69332	P.T.Ajay Mohan	M	INC	53692
2021	48	Ponnani	GEN	P. Nandakumar	M	CPM	74668	A M Rohit	M	INC	57625