Balusseri (Kerala) Assembly Constituency Elections

About Balusseri Assembly Constituency

Balusseri is constituency No. 25 of Kerala legislative assembly. It is situated in Kozhikode district. It comes under Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency. This constituency is reserved for scheduled castes (SC). According to the Election Commission of India, Balusseri has 1,85,109 registered voters. It comprises 88,303 male and 96,806 female registered voters.

The CPI(M) won this seat in the 2011 Assembly elections. Purushan Kadalundi, the winning CPI(M) candidate, got 74,259 votes. He defeated his nearest contender by a margin of 8,882 votes. INC candidate A. Balaram was the nearest contender. Balaram got 65,377 votes. The voter turnout was 81.59 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Balusseri Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
1957	98	Balusseri	GEN	Narayana Kurup M.	M	PSP	15789	Raghavan Nair E.	M	INC	11536
1960	98	Balusseri	GEN	M. Narayana Kuruf	M	PSP	32423	K. Kalandankutty	M	IND	22983
1965	20	Balusseri	GEN	A.K. Appu	M	SSP	29593	O.K. Govindan	M	INC	23407
1967	20	Balusseri	GEN	A.K.Appu	M	SSP	29069	O.K.Govindan	M	INC	22491
1970	20	Balusseri	GEN	A. C. Shanamkhadas	M	INC	30896	P. K. Sankarankutty	M	SOP	29699
1977	22	Balusseri	GEN	P. K. Sankarankutty	M	BLD	33960	Puthoor Ramakrishnan Nair	M	INC	32413
1980	22	Balusseri	GEN	A. C. Shanmukhadas	M	INC(U)	39664	P. K. Sankaran Kutty	M	JNP	30716
1982	22	Balusseri	GEN	A . C . Shanmukhadas	M	ICS	34055	P. K. Gopalan	M	IND	27370
1987	22	Balusseri	GEN	A.C. Shanmukhadas	M	ICS(SCS)	46832	Vijaya D. Nair	F	INC	35348
1991	22	Balusseri	GEN	A.C. Shanmukhadas	M	ICS(SCS)	52470	P. Shankaran	M	INC	42758
1996	22	Balusseri	GEN	A.C.Shanmukhadas	M	ICS	55588	R.K.Ravivarma	M	INC	40558
2001	22	Balusseri	GEN	A.C Shanmukhadas	M	NCP	54218	Balakrishnan Kidave	M	INC	51256
2006	22	Balusseri	GEN	A K Saseendran	M	NCP	60340	K Balakrishnan Kidavu	M	INC	46180
2011	25	Balusseri	(SC)	Purushan Kadalundi	M	CPM	74259	A. Balaram	M	INC	65377
2016	25	Balusseri	(SC)	Purushan Kadalundi	M	CPM	82914	U.C. Raman	M	IUML	67450
2021	25	Balusseri	(SC)	K.M. Sachin dev	M	CPM	91839	D. Bolgatty	M	INC	71467

Last Updated on July 28, 2021

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