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Kazhakootam Assembly constituency

Kazhakootam is No 132 of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2026 assembly elections, the MLA is V. Muraleedharan of BJP.

Kazhakootam
Constituency No. 132 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Technopark at Kazhakootam is first and largest Information Technology park in India.
India
South India
Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram
1965
1,81,771 (2016)
None
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly

Incumbent V Muraleedharan
BJP
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Kazhakootam is No 132 of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2026 assembly elections, the MLA is V. Muraleedharan of BJP.

The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented the constituency:

Election	Name	Party
1965	N. Lakshmanan		Indian National Congress
1967	M. H. Sahib		Indian Union Muslim League
1970	P. Neelakandan		Samyukta Socialist Party
1977	Thalekunnil Basheer		Indian National Congress
1977	A. K. Antony
1980	M. M. Hassan		Indian National Congress (Urs)
1982		Independent
1987	Nabeesa Ummal
1991	M. V. Raghavan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1996	Kadakampally Surendran		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2001	M. A. Vaheed		Independent politician
2006		Indian National Congress
2011
2016	Kadakampally Surendran		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2021
2026	V. Muraleedharan		Bharatiya Janata Party

Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediately previous election.

Party	Candidate	Votes
	BJP	46,564
	CPI(M)	46,136
	INC	37,183
	NOTA
428

	BJP gain from CPI(M)	{{{swing}}}

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	63,690	46.04	9.48
	BJP	40,193	29.06	2.84
	INC	33,995	23.85	4.97
	NOTA	668	0.48
	BSP	1899	0.27	1.12
	Independent	199	0.09
	Independent	22	0.08
	Independent	21	0.06
	Independent	20	0.05
23,497	17.0
1,40,707
	CPI(M) hold

There were 1,81,771 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	50,079	37.38	7.00
	BJP	42,732	31.90	25.04
	INC	38,602	28.82	17.56
	NOTA	822	0.61
	BSP	496	0.37	0.25
	Independent	412	0.31
	Independent	370	0.28
	Independent	108	0.08
	Independent	84	0.06	0.15
	Independent	83	0.06
	Independent	59	0.04
	Independent	58	0.04
	Independent	54	0.04
7,347	5.48
1,33,959	73.70	6.61
	CPI(M) gain from INC

There were 1,63,199 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	50,787	46.38
	CPI(M)	48,591	44.38
	BJP	7,508	6.86
	Independent	986	0.90
	BSP	678	0.62
	SDPI	418	0.38
	Independent	325	0.30
	Independent	205	0.19
2,196	2.00
1,09,498	67.09
	INC hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	51,296	46.89
	CPI(M)	51,081	46.70
	BJP	2,499	2.28
215	0.19
1,09,379
	INC gain from Independent

There were 1,74,313 registered voters in the constituency for the 2001 election.

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	49,917	44.45
	CPI(M)	45,624	40.62
	Independent	10,408	9.27
4,293	3.83
1,12,307	64.43
	Independent gain from CPI(M)

There were 1,68,659 registered voters in the constituency for the 1996 election.

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	56,425	53.87
	Independent	32,368	30.90
	BJP	9,230	8.81
24,057	22.97
1,04,740	63.84
	CPI(M) gain from CMP

There were 1,55,360 registered voters in the constituency for the 1991 election.

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	CMP	51,243	48.38
	CPI(M)	50,554	47.73
	BJP	2,298	2.17
689	0.65
1,05,924	69.47
	CMP gain from Independent

There were 86,434 registered voters in the constituency for the 1977 election.

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	38,463	55.33
	Independent	29,794	42.86
8669	12.47
69,504	80.41
	INC hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	37,014	59.94
	AIML	22,637	36.66
14,377	23.28
61,747	76.61
	INC gain from SSP

Kazhakootam
Thiruvananthapuram district
List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election

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