Taliparamba (Kerala) Assembly Constituency Elections

About Taliparamba Assembly Constituency

Taliparamba is constituency No. 8 of Kerala legislative assembly. It is situated in Kannur district and comes under the Kannur Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency. According to the Election Commission of India, this assembly seat comprises 1,74,788 registered voters. It includes 79,316 male and 95,472 female registered voters. In the 2011 assembly elections, this seat was won by CPI(M) candidate James Matthew. With 81,031 votes, Matthew defeated his nearest contender by a margin of 27,861 votes. Job Michel of KEC(M) party was the runner-up. The voter turnout was 82.63 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Payyannur Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
1965	9	Taliparamba	GEN	K.P. Raghava Poduval	M	CPI(M)	29430	N.C. Varghese	M	INC	22638
1967	9	Taliparamba	GEN	K.P.R.Poduval	M	CPM	31508	N.C.Varghese	M	INC	22233
1970	9	Taliparamba	GEN	C. P. Govindan Nambiar	M	INC	31435	K. P. Raghava Podvval	M	CPM	30526
1977	8	Taliparamba	GEN	M. V. Raghavan	M	CPM	36829	K. Narayanan Nambiar	M	IND	35304
1980	8	Taliparamba	GEN	C. P. Moossan Kutty	M	CPM	47420	Chandren T. P.	M	IND	30829
1982	8	Taliparamba	GEN	C. P. Moossankutty	M	CPM	46313	P.T. Jose	M	KEC	35774
1987	8	Taliparamba	GEN	K. K. N. Pariyaram	M	CPM	52247	C. P. Moossankutty	M	IND	49631
1991	8	Taliparamba	GEN	Pacheni Kunhiaraman	M	CPM	65973	M.K. Raghavan	M	INC	55273
1996	8	Taliparamba	GEN	M.V.Govindan Master	M	CPM	70550	Satheesan Pacheni	M	INC	52933
2001	8	Taliparamba	GEN	M.V.Govindan Master	M	CPM	76975	K.Surendran	M	INC	61688
2006	8	Taliparamba	GEN	C.K.P Padmanabhan	M	CPI(M)	82994	Chandran Thillankeri	M	INC	53456
2011	8	Taliparamba	GEN	James Mathew	M	CPM	81031	Adv Job Michel	M	KEC(M)	53170
2016	8	Taliparamba	GEN	James Mathew	M	CPM	91106	Rajesh Nambiar	M	KEC(M)	50489
2021	8	Taliparamba	GEN	M.V. Govindan	M	CPM	92870	V.P. Abdul Rashid	M	KEC(M)	70181