Kerala Assembly Election 2021, Payyannur profile: Constituency has been LDF stronghold since 1965; CPM’s C Krishnan had won in 2016 – Politics News , NewsGater

Election of the Assembly of Payyannur 2021 | The electoral district of the Payyannur Assembly is a stronghold of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in the district of Kannur. The constituency has continually elected CPM leaders since the 1965 Assembly election.

The main opposition in the Assembly electoral district is Congress.

Payyannur’s current MLA is CPM leader C Krishnan, who won the constituency in the 2016 election by a margin of more than 40,000 votes and received 58.02 percent of the total votes surveyed. Krishnan also won the seat in 2011 and will be considering a third term from the constituency.

However, reports have said the party is likely to present new faces from the electorate. According to a report in Mathurbhoomi, Krishnan is among the 20 incumbent MLAs who will likely have no chance in the 2021 Assembly elections.

Kerala Prime Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had contested since the seat in 1996 and won by a margin of more than 28,000 votes.

Although the Payannur Assembly constituency falls under the Kannur district, it comes under the Kasargod parliamentary constituency. Kalliasseri is another Kannur District Assembly constituency belonging to the Kasargod parliamentary constituency.

Winners and results of previous elections

In the 2011 Assembly elections, Krishnan had defeated his closest opponent, Congressional attorney K Brijesh Kumar, by a margin of 32,124 votes.

Krishan had won the seat for the first time that year. Before Krishnan, CPM leader PK Sreemathy, also known as PK Sreemathy Teacher, had won the seat in 2001 by defeating ‘M Narayanan Kutty Congress and in 2006 by defeating’ K Surendran Congress.

Vijayan, who had run since Payyannur and won in the 1996 Assembly elections, had defeated KN Kannoth from Congress by a margin of more than 28,000 votes.

Congress has been trying to wrest the seat from the CPM since the 1960s, but has yet to do so.

Total voters, electoral participation, population

Electoral participation: Electoral participation in the 2016 Payyannur Election of the Assembly it was 81.76 percent. The constituency had registered a electoral participation 82.27 percent in the 2011 Assembly elections. In the 2006 Assembly election, the Payannur Assembly electoral district had registered a 76.55 percent turnout.

The constituency has 180 votes seasons according to latest data from the Kerala Election Commission website.

Electors: According to the final electoral roll published on January 20, 2021, The seat of the Payyannur Assembly has 1,80,460 electors, of which 85,145 electors are men and 95,313 women. There are two transgender voters in the constituency.

According to the latest electoral data, the Kannur district (includes Payyannur, Kalliasseri, Taliaparamba, Irikkur, Azhikode, Kannur, Dharmadam, Mattannur, Thalassery, Peravoor, Kuthuparamba Assembly) has 20,13,846 voters of which 9,48,583 are men and 10 65,248 women. There are 15 registered third-gender voters in the district.

According to the 2005 delimitation exercise, out of the total of 11 Assembly segments in Kannur district, two, Payyannur and Kalliasseri, belong to the Kasargod parliament constituency along with the Assembly segments in Kasargod, Udma, Kanhangad, Trikaripur and Manjeshwar from the Kasargod district.

Seven segments of the Assembly (Taliparamba, Irikkur, Azhikode, Kannur, Dharmadam, Mattannur and Peravoor) form the Kannur parliamentary constituency, while two segments of the District Assembly, Thalassery and Kuthuparamba, are part of the Vadakara parliamentary constituency together with Vadakara, Kuttiadi, Nadapuram, Quilandy and Perambra Assembly Segments of Kozhikkode district.

According to the Election Commission of India, a total of 2,67,31,509 voters will exercise their right to vote in the next Assembly elections, of which 1,29,52,025 are men, 1,37,79,263 are women and 221 voters third gender.

Of the total registered voters, 90,709 are foreign voters, who will vote by postal ballot in the 2021 State Assembly elections. The majority of voters abroad are men (84,860), followed by women (5,838) and 11 third gender voters.

Population: According to the 2005 delimitation exercise, the electoral district of the Payyannur Assembly includes the municipality of Payyannur and Cherupuzha, Eramamkuttoor, Kankole-Alapadamba, Karivellur Peralam, Peringome Vayakkara and Ramanthali Panchayats in Taliparamba Taluk.

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.

Political alliances and Kerala

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 election, 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 uphill 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 tally 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.

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 constituent of the UDF led by Congress, it 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.