Kerala Assembly Election 2021, Kasaragod profile: NA Nellikkunnu won for second time in 2016 in IUML stronghold – Politics News , NewsGater

Elections to the Kasaragod Assembly 2020 | Kasaragod is an Assembly constituency in the Kasaragod district of Kerala. It belongs to the parliamentary constituency of Kasaragod.

The current MLA is NA Nellikkunnu of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), a constituent of the United Democratic Front (UDF) led by Congress. The IUML leader had won the seat in 2016.

Nellikkunnu was at the forefront of criticism of the LDF government for coronavirus restrictions in early March 2020 and the lack of medical infrastructure in the district He was reportedly one of the two MLA from Kerala who went into quarantine after coming into contact with a returnee from the UAE who had tested positive for COVID-19 in March. However, he tested negative for the virus. In the past, the Kasaragod MLA has also been charged with interfere with immigration services at Mangalore airport.

None of the political parties have yet announced their candidates.

Winners and results of previous elections

The Kasaragod Assembly constituency is a UDF stronghold with the IUML winning every election on the seat since the 1980 Assembly elections. The BJP, the main challenger, has been trying to seize control of the seat for more than three decades, but has not been successful, also emerging as runner-up in the last 2016 Assembly elections.

IUML, which is part of the UDF, won the Kasaragod Assembly in the 2016 Assembly elections and the party’s candidate Nellikkunnu received 64,727 votes (44.7 percent of total votes polled).

He had defeated Ravisha Thantri Kuntar of BJP in the elections. Kuntar, however, had received a sizable 56,120 votes (38.77 percent). Dr. AA Ameen of the Indian National League came in third with 21,615 votes.

In the 2011 elections, Nellikkunnu also won the seat, receiving 53,068 votes. He had defeated BJP’s Jayalakshmi N Bhat, who received 43,330 votes.

In 2006, the seat was won by CT Ahammed Ali of IUML, who had won the seat for the seventh time without losing a single time since the 1980 Assembly elections. Ali had defeated V Ravindran of BJP with more than 10,000 votes.

However, of the seven segments of the Assembly that are part of the Kasaragod parliamentary constituency, five are with the LDF led by the CPM (four with the CPM and one with the CPI) while IUML, a component of the UDF led by Congress is the second largest party, winning the two remaining seats (Kasaragod and Manjeshwaram) in the latest Assembly polls.

BJP did not win any of the seven Assembly segments that are part of the Kasaragod parliamentary constituency in 2016.

Total voters, electoral participation, population

According to the 2005 delimitation exercise, the Kasaragod Assembly constituency includes Kasaragod Township and Badiadka, Bellur, Chengala, Karadka, Kumbdaje, Madhur and Mogral Puthur Panchayats in Kasaragod Taluk.

Electoral participation: Voter turnout in the 2016 Kasaragod Assembly elections was 76.62 percent. The Kasaragod Assembly electoral district has 190 polling stations according to the latest data from the Kerala Election Commission website.

Electors: According to him Electorate data for 2020, The Kasaragod district has 10,16,193 voters, of which 4,97,130 are men and 5,19,062 women. There is a registered transgender voter in the district.

According to the Election Commission of India, Kerala has 2.62,57,121 voters, of which 1,26,16,789 are men, 1.34,95,097 women and 149 third-gender voters. The state also has 89,213 overseas voters, who will be allowed to vote via postal ballots recently approved by the Election Commission.

The 2021 Kerala Assembly election is the first time that overseas state voters will be able to cast their votes from abroad. The majority of voters abroad are men (83,624), followed by women (5,577) and 12 third-gender voters. There are a total of 55,873 service voters, of whom 53,428 are men and 2,445 women.

Population: According to the 2011 census, of Kerala’s 3.34 million rupee population, 54.73 percent are followers of Hinduism, followed by 26.56 percent of followers of Islam and 18.38 percent of Christians. Hinduism is the main religion in 13 of the 14 districts of the state.

Malappuram is the only district in Kerala where Islam is the main religion, with 70.24 percent of the district’s total population following the religion.

The state has a small population that follows Jainism (0.01 percent), Sikhism (0.01 percent), Buddhism (0.01 percent), and 0.02 percent (other religions). Almost 0.26 percent in the state did not declare their religion during the 2011 census.

Election date and time

The Kerala / Niyama Sabha Assembly elections are likely to be held in April-May 2021 alongside Assam, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry.

The Kerala Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) has a total of 140 seats, of which 14 seats are reserved for scheduled castes and two seats are reserved for scheduled tribes.

The outgoing Assembly has eight female MLAs and the remaining 132 are male MLAs. The Kerala Niyamasabha holder will expire on June 1, 2021.

Elections in Kerala have traditionally been a contest between the UDF and the LDF with a power swing between the two groups.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress-led UDF had won 19 of the state’s 20 Lok Sabha seats relying on incumbency against the ruling LDF. However, repeating a similar feat in the Assembly polls will be an arduous task for the UDF.

The LDF has not only managed to overcome anti-incumbency in the 2020 local body polls, but also managed to break into the UDF vote banks, particularly in the districts of Thrissur, Ernakulam and Kottayam.

The NDA, which is shaping up to be a third front in Kerala, hopes to increase its count in Assembly polls. However, with the BJP-led NDA falling short of expectations in 2020 local body polls despite making a profit, its ability to impact the UDF or LDF prospects in Assembly elections remains lacking. clear.