Varkala (Kerala) Assembly Constituency Elections

About Varkala Assembly Constituency

Varkala is constituency No. 127 of Kerala legislative assembly. It is situated in Thiruvananthapuram district and comes under the Attingal Lok Sabha constituency. It is an unreserved seat. The Attingal Lok Sabha constituency was formed after delimitation in 2008. According to the Election Commission of India, Varkala assembly seat has 1,51,930 registered voters. It comprises 65,846 male and 86,084 female registered voters. Congress candidate Varkala Kahar won this assembly seat in the 2011 elections. Kahar bagged 57,755 votes while CPI(M) candidate A.A. Rahim, the nearest contender, got 47,045. The winning margin was 10,710. The voter turnout was 72.55 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Varkala Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
1957	11	Varkala	(SC)	Abdul Majeed T. A.	M	CPI	41683	Sivadasan K.	M	CPI	31454
1960	11	Varkala	GEN	Balakrishnan	M	CPI	50231	Balakrishnan	M	CPI	50114
1965	120	Varkala	GEN	K. Shahul Hameed	M	INC	21092	V. Radhakrishnan	M	CPI(M)	12381
1967	120	Varkala	GEN	A . Majid	M	CPI	24796	S . Hameed	M	INC	17885
1970	120	Varkala	GEN	Majid T. A.	M	CPI	26444	Radhakrishnan V	M	CPM	20630
1977	127	Varkala	GEN	T.A. Majeed	M	CPI	25210	Shamsuddin	M	BLD	18991
1980	127	Varkala	GEN	Varkala Radhakrishan	M	CPM	34148	G. Karthikeyan	M	INC(I)	26887
1982	127	Varkala	GEN	Varkala Radhakrishnan	M	CPM	27315	M. K. Sreedharan	M	IND	25511
1987	127	Varkala	GEN	Varkala Radhakrishnan	M	CPM	40381	N. Sreenivasan	M	IND	25921
1991	127	Varkala	GEN	Varkala Radhakrishnan	M	CPM	42977	Varkala Kahar	M	INC	39680
1996	127	Varkala	GEN	A.Ali Hassan	M	CPM	42093	G.Priyadarsanan	M	INC	15704
2001	127	Varkala	GEN	Varkala Kahar	M	INC	45315	P.K.Gurudasan	M	CPM	43327
2006	127	Varkala	GEN	Varkala Kahar	M	INC	44883	Adv S Sundaresan	M	CPI(M)	43258
2011	127	Varkala	GEN	Varkala Kahar	M	INC	57755	A.A.Rahim	M	CPM	47045
2016	127	Varkala	GEN	V. Joy	M	CPM	53102	Varkala Kahar	M	INC	50716
2021	127	Varkala	GEN	V. Joy	M	CPM	68816	B R M Shafeer	M	INC	50995