Alathur (Kerala) Assembly Constituency Elections

About Alathur Assembly Constituency

Alathur is constituency No. 60 of Kerala legislative assembly. This unreserved constituency is situated in Palakkad district and comes under the Alathur Lok Sabha constituency. The Alathur Lok Sabha constituency, which was formed in 2008 after delimitation exercise, is reserved for scheduled castes (SC). According to the Election Commission of India, Alathur has a total of 1,52,827 registered voters. It comprises 75,074 male and 77,753 female registered voters.

In the 2011 assembly elections, CPI(M) candidate M.Chandran won this seat by a convincing margin of 24,741 votes. Chandran got 66,977 votes while his nearest contender, K.Kusala Kumar of KEC(M), got 42,236. The voter turnout was 75.95 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Alathur Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
1957	76	Alathur	GEN	Krishnan R.	M	CPI	19203	Vaitheeswara Iyer P. S.	M	INC	13317
1960	76	Alathur	GEN	R. Krishnan	M	CPI	31159	A. Sunna Sahib	M	INC	21935
1965	47	Alathur	GEN	R. Krishnan	M	CPI(M)	26328	A. Narayanan	M	INC	12472
1967	47	Alathur	GEN	R.Krishnan	M	CPM	25467	Sarada	F	INC	13630
1970	47	Alathur	GEN	R. Krishnan	M	CPM	34193	P. M. Adulrahiman	M	IND	17735
1977	53	Alathur	GEN	E. M. S. Namboodiripad	M	CPM	31424	V. S. Vijayaraghavan	M	INC	29425
1980	53	Alathur	GEN	C. T. Krishnan	M	CPM	36244	K. P. Kaladharan	M	IND	30262
1982	53	Alathur	GEN	C. T. Krishnan	M	CPM	39982	C. K. Balakrishnan	M	IND	28668
1987	53	Alathur	GEN	C. K. Rajendran	M	CPM	44381	C.S. Ramachandran Master	M	IND	43170
1991	53	Alathur	GEN	A.V. Gopinathan	M	INC	49512	V. Sukumaran Master	M	CPM	49174
1996	53	Alathur	GEN	C.K.Rajendran	M	CPM	53763	R.Chellamma	F	INC	41597
2001	53	Alathur	GEN	V.Chenthamarakshan	M	CPM	59485	R.Chellamma Teacher	F	INC	46980
2006	53	Alathur	GEN	M. Chandhran	M	CPI(M)	73231	A. Raghavan	M	IND	25560
2011	60	Alathur	GEN	M.Chandran	M	CPM	66977	Adv. K. Kusala Kumar	M	KEC(M)	42236
2016	60	Alathur	GEN	K.D. Prasenan	M	CPM	71206	Adv. K. Kusala Kumar	M	KEC(M)	35146
2021	60	Alathur	GEN	K.D. Prasnan	M	CPM	74653	Palayam Pradeep	M	INC	40535