Congress has been trying to wrest the seat from the CPM since the 1970s, but has yet to do so.
Trikaripur Assembly Elections 2020 | The constituency is one of the oldest and most loyal strongholds of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in the Kasargod district, voting for the party’s candidate for power in every election in the last three decades. The Trikaripur Assembly constituency belongs to the Kasaragod parliamentary constituency.
The current MLA is CPM leader M Rajagopalan, who had twice replaced MLA from constituency K Kunhiraman in the 2016 Assembly elections.
Rajagopalan had won the seat in 2016 for the CPM, a constituent of the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF), by a 16,959 vote margin defeating his closest opponent, KP Kunhikannan, from Congress.
Rajagopalan is running for a second term in the constituency.
Winners and results of previous elections
Trikaripur The Assembly constituency is a stronghold of the LDF with the CPM winning the seat in every election since 1977. In the 2011 Assembly elections, Kunhiraman had defeated his closest opponent, KV Gangadharan, by a margin of more than of 8,000 votes.
Kunhiraman had won the seat for the second time for CPM that year. Previously, he had won the seat in the 2006 Assembly elections, defeating lawyer Vamana Kumar AV, also from Congress, by almost 24,000 votes.
Congress has been trying to wrest the seat from the CPM since the 1970s, but has yet to do so.
Total voters, electoral participation, population
Electoral participation: Electoral participation in the Trikaripur Assembly Election 2016 it was 81.88 percent, the highest voter turnout in the Kasargod district in that election. The constituency had recorded the highest voter turnout in the district also in the elections to the Assembly of 2011, with 80.39 percent. In the 2006 Assembly elections, turnout was 78.01 percent.
The constituency has 194 polling stations according to the latest data from the Kerala Election Commission website.
Voters: According to the final electoral roll published on January 20, 2021, the Trikaripur Assembly has 1,98,460 voters, of which 94,110 are men and 1,04,349 are women and one is transgender.
According to the latest electoral data, the Kasaragod district (includes the Assembly segments of Kasargod, Udma, Kanhangad, Trikaripur and Manjeshwar) has 10,35,042 voters of which, 5,05,798 are men and 5,29,241 women. There are three registered third-gender voters in the district.
According to the Election Commission of India, Kerala has overall 2.67,31,509 voters, of which 1,29,52,025 are men, 1.37,79,263 are women and 221 third-gender voters.
Of the total registered voters, 90,709 are foreign voters. The 2021 Kerala Assembly election is the first time that state voters abroad will be able to cast their votes from abroad via postal ballots. The majority of overseas voters 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 Kanhangad Assembly includes the municipality of Kanhangad and Ajanur, Balal, Kallar, KinanoorKarindalam, Kodom-Belur, Madikai and Panathady Panchayats in Hosdurg 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 remainder 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 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.
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.
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