Kerala Assembly Election 2021, Udma profile: CPM’s K Kunhiraman has won every election from seat since 2001 – Politics News , NewsGater

Elections to the Udma Assembly 2021 | Udma is an Assembly constituency in the Kasaragod district of Kerala. It belongs to the parliamentary constituency of Kasaragod. The current MLA is K Kunhiraman of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the main constituent of the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF).

The CPM leader had won the seat in 2016 by a margin of 3,832 votes by defeating his closest opponent, K Sudhakaran, from Congress.

A farmer by profession, Kunhiraman has recently been in the news on allegations of false voting during recently concluded local body polls in the state. According to a report in Mathrubhumi, an election official had recently complained to the State Elections Commission (SEC) that Kunhiraman had threatened him for verifying voters’ credentials.

Kerala Prime Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had defended the 72-year-old CPM district leader after the allegations.

Winners and results of previous elections

The Udma Assembly constituency is a UDF stronghold with the CPM winning every election in the constituency since the 1991 Kerala Assembly elections. Incumbent MLA Kunhiraman won the Udma Assembly seat for the first time in 2001 and has withheld it ever since.

Congress, which won the seat only once in the 1987 Assembly elections (KP Kunhikannan had defeated CPM’s Purushothaman K by 7,845 votes), has become the main rival ever since. However, the party has not been able to wrest control of the seat from the CPM.

In 2001, Kunhiraman had won the seat by defeating congressional defender CK Sreedharan by more than 9,000 votes. He won the seat again in 2006, defeating P Gangadharan Nair from Congress with a huge margin of more than 27,000 votes.

Kunhiraman retained the seat in the 2011 election despite Congress putting Sreedharan back in the fray. The margin of victory, however, was just over 10,000 in the 2011 election.

In the 2016 election, Kunhiraman received 70,679, defeating K Sudhakaran from Congress. The margin of victory, however, was reduced to 3,832 votes.

Total voters, electoral participation, population

Electoral participation: Voter turnout in the 2016 Udma Assembly elections was 80.45 percent, the third highest of the seven Assembly segments that make up the Kasaragod parliamentary constituency. The Udma electoral district has 198 electoral colleges according to the latest data from the Kerala Election Commission website.

Electors: According to him Electorate data for 2020, The Kasaragod district (includes the Kasargod, Udma, Kanhangad, Trikaripur and Manjeshwar Assembly segments) has 10,16,193 voters, of which 4,97,130 are men and 5,19,062 women. There is a third registered gender voter in the district.

According to the Election Commission of India, Kerala has 2.62,57,121 electors, 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 2005 delimitation exercise, the electoral districts of the Udma Assembly include Bedadka, Chemnad, Delampady, Kuttikole and Muliyar Panchayats in Kasaragod Taluk and Pallikere, Pullur-Periya and Udma 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 remaining 132 are male MLAs. The Kerala Niyamasabha holder will expire on June 1, 2021.