Ranni (Kerala) Assembly Constituency Elections

About Ranni Assembly Constituency

Ranni is constituency No. 112 of Kerala legislative assembly. It is situated in Pathanamthitta district and comes under Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency. This is an open assembly seat. The Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency came into being recently in 2008 following delimitation by the Election Commission of India. According to data with the Election Commission of India, Ranni has 1,75,669 registered voters. It comprises 83,992 male and 91,677 female registered voters.In the 2011 Assembly elections, the CPI(M) won this seat by a margin of 6,614 votes. Raju Abraham, the winning candidate, secured 58,391 votes. The nearest contender was Peelipose Thomas of Congress, who got 51,777 votes. The voter turnout was 68.54 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Ranni Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
1957	26	Ranni	GEN	Idicula	M	INC	23308	Thomas Mathew	M	IND	20722
1960	26	Ranni	GEN	Vayala Idicula	M	INC	34560	E. M. Thomas	M	CPI	24426
1965	105	Ranni	GEN	E. M. Thomas	M	KC	21707	M. Sanny	M	INC	14005
1967	105	Ranni	GEN	M . K . Divakaran	M	CPI	18628	N . J . Mathews	M	INC	12795
1970	105	Ranni	GEN	Jacob Skariah	M	IND	16136	Sunny Panavely	M	IND	15559
1977	111	Ranni	GEN	K.A. Mathew	M	KEC	32530	F. Thomas Kuttikayam	M	KCP	23235
1980	111	Ranni	GEN	M. C. Cherian	M	INC(U)	31243	Sunny Panavelil	M	INC(I)	30097
1982	111	Ranni	GEN	Sunny Panavelil	M	ICS	34490	M. C. Cherian	M	IND	25245
1986	By Polls	Ranni	GEN	R.S.Panaveli	M	ICS	30065	M.C.Cherian	M	INC	29442
1987	111	Ranni	GEN	Eappen Varghese	M	KEC	33265	K. I. Idiculla Mappilla	M	CPM	32062
1991	111	Ranni	GEN	M.C. Cheriyan Moozhickal	M	INC	41048	Idiculla Mappila	M	CPM	38809
1996	111	Ranni	GEN	Raju Abraham	M	CPM	40932	Peeilipose Thomas	M	INC	37503
2001	111	Ranni	GEN	Raju Abraham	M	CPM	48286	Bijili Panaveli	M	INC	43479
2006	111	Ranni	GEN	Raju Abraham	M	CPI(M)	49367	Adv. Peelipose Thomas	M	INC	34396
2011	112	Ranni	GEN	Raju Abrham	M	CPM	58391	Peelipose Thomas	M	INC	51777
2016	112	Ranni	GEN	Raju Abrham	M	CPM	58749	Mariamma Cherian	F	INC	44153
2021	112	Ranni	GEN	Pramod Narayan	M	KCM	52669	Rinku Cheria	M	INC	51384