Ottapalam (Kerala) Assembly Constituency Election

About Ottapalam Assembly Constituency

Ottapalam is constituency No. 52 of Kerala legislative assembly. It is situated in Palakkad district and comes under the Palakkad Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency.

According to the Election Commission of India, this assembly seat comprises 1,75,066 registered voters. It includes 82,923 male and 92,143 female registered voters.

In the 2011 assembly elections, this seat went to the CPI(M). M. Hamza, the winning CPI(M) candidate, got 65,023 votes. He beat his nearest contender, V.K. Sreekandan of INC, by a margin of 13,203 votes. The voter turnout was 75.09 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Ottapalam Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
1957	83	Ottapalam	GEN	Kunhunni Nayar	M	CPI	16157	Sundara Iyer N.	M	INC	15248
1960	83	Ottapalam	GEN	Kunhunni Nayar	M	CPI	24741	Chandrasekhara Kurup	M	PSP	18118
1965	38	Ottapalam	GEN	P.P. Krishnan	M	CPI(M)	20802	K. Sankaranarayanana	M	INC	12560
1967	38	Ottapalam	GEN	P.P.Krishnan	M	CPM	21086	M.N.Kurup	M	INC	13123
1970	40	Ottapalam	GEN	P. P. Krishnan	M	CPM	22056	Leela Damodara Menon	M	INC	19817
1977	45	Ottapalam	GEN	P. Balan	M	INC	30937	K. P. Unni	M	CPM	24120
1980	45	Ottapalam	GEN	V. C. Kabeer	M	INC(U)	23683	P. R. Nambiar	M	JNP	20499
1982	45	Ottapalam	GEN	V. C. Kabeer	M	IND	27689	P. Balan	M	IND	23994
1987	45	Ottapalam	GEN	K. Sankaranarayanan	M	INC	38237	V. C. Kabeer	M	ICS(SCS)	36527
1991	45	Ottapalam	GEN	V.C. Kabeer Master	M	ICS(SCS)	42771	K. Sankaranarayanan	M	INC	38501
1996	45	Ottapalam	GEN	V.C.Kabeer	M	ICS	40615	K.V. Prabhakaran Nambiar	M	INC	33257
2001	45	Ottapalam	GEN	V.C.Kabeer Master	M	NCP	57895	C.V.Balachandran Master	M	INC	40045
2006	45	Ottapalam	GEN	M. Hamsa	M	CPI(M)	63447	V.C. Kabeer Master	M	INC	39104
2011	52	Ottapalam	GEN	M. Hamza	M	CPM	65023	V.K. Sreekandan	M	INC	51820
2016	52	Ottapalam	GEN	P. Unni	M	CPM	67161	Shanimol Usman	M	INC	51073
2021	52	Ottapalam	GEN	K. Premkumar	M	CPM	74859	R. Sarin	M	INC	59707