Irikkur (Kerala) Assembly Constituency Election

About Irikkur Assembly Constituency

Irikkur is constituency No. 9 of Kerala legislative assembly. It is situated in Kannur district and comes under the Kannur Lok Sabha constituency. It is an unreserved constituency.

According to the Election Commission of India, this constituency has 1,69,262 registered voters. It comprises 83,684 male and 85,578 female registered voters.

In the 2011 assembly elections, the INC won this seat by a margin of 11,757 votes. K.C. Joseph, the winning INC candidate, got 68,503 votes. CPI's P. Santhosh Kumar, the runner-up, got 56,746 votes. The voter turnout was 77.26 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Irikkur Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
1960	110	Irikkur	GEN	T. C. Narayanaan Nambiar	M	CPI	31769	M. P. Moidu Hajee Melekandy	M	INC	30489
1965	10	Irikkur	GEN	E.P. Krishnan Nambiar	M	CPI(M)	27284	A. Narayanana Nambissan	M	INC	17033
1967	10	Irikkur	GEN	E.P.K.Nambiar	M	CPM	31590	K.R. Karunakaran	M	INC	16679
1970	10	Irikkur	GEN	A. Kunhikannan	M	CPM	28766	T. Lohithakshan	M	RSP	27098
1980	6	Irikkur	GEN	Ram Chandran Kacannoppally	M	INC(U)	37440	Dr. K. C. Joseph	M	KCJ	31992
1982	6	Irikkur	GEN	K .C. Joseph	M	IND	39261	S. K. Madhavan	M	JNP	30037
1987	6	Irikkur	GEN	K. C. Joseph	M	INC	51437	James Mathew	M	CPM	43961
1991	6	Irikkur	GEN	K.C. Joseph	M	INC	62395	Goorge Sebastian	M	KEC	45647
1996	6	Irikkur	GEN	K.C. Joseph	M	INC	62407	A.J. Joseph	M	KEC	44575
2001	6	Irikkur	GEN	K.C.Joseph	M	INC	67788	Prof.Mercy John	F	KEC	50884
2006	6	Irikkur	GEN	Advocate K C Joseph	M	INC	63649	James Mathew	M	CPI(M)	61818
2011	9	Irikkur	GEN	K. C. Joseph	M	INC	68503	Adv. P. Santhosh Kumar	M	CPI	56746