Balussery Assembly constituency

Balussery Assembly Constituency
Balussery Assembly Constituency
Constituency No. 24 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Balussery Bus Terminal
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kozhikode
Established	1957
Total electors	2,24,239 (2021)
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent K. M. Sachin Dev
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Balussery is one of the largest 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] Since May 2021 assembly elections, K M Sachin Dev of CPI(M), is MLA from Balussery preceded by Purushan Kadalundy.

Local self-governed segments

Balussery Assembly Constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments:^[2]

Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
Atholi	Grama panchayat	Koyilandy
Balussery	Grama panchayat	Koyilandy
Kayanna	Grama panchayat	Koyilandy
Koorachundu	Grama panchayat	Koyilandy
Kottur	Grama panchayat	Koyilandy
Naduvannur	Grama panchayat	Koyilandy
Ulliyeri	Grama panchayat	Koyilandy
Panangad	Grama panchayat	Thamarassery
Unnikulam	Grama panchayat	Thamarassery

The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:

Key

INC CPI(M) PSP INC(U) IC(S) BLD

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member		Tenure
1957	1st	M. Narayana Kurup	Praja Socialist Party	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd	M. Narayana Kurup	Praja Socialist Party	1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	A. K. Appu	Samyukta Socialist Party	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	A. C. Shanmukhadas	Indian National Congress	1970 – 1977
1977	5th	P. K. Sankarankutty	Bharatiya Lok Dal	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	A. C. Shanmukhadas	Indian National Congress	1980 – 1982
1982	7th		Indian Congress	1982 – 1987
1987	8th		Indian Congress (Socialist) – Sarat Chandra Sinha	1987 – 1991
1991	9th		Indian Congress (Socialist) – Sarat Chandra Sinha	1991 – 1996
1996	10th		Indian Congress	1996 – 2001
2001	11th		Nationalist Congress Party	2001 – 2006
2006	12th	A. K. Saseendran	Nationalist Congress Party	2006 – 2011
2011	13th	Purushan Kadalundi	Communist Party of India	2011 – 2016
2016	14th	Purushan Kadalundi		2016-2021
2021	15th	K. M. Sachin Dev		Incumbent

There were 2,24,239 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 election.^[3]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Balussery
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	K. M. Sachin Dev	91,839	50.39	2.89
	INC	Dharmajan Bolgatty	71,467	38.54	−
	BJP	Libin Balussery	16,490	9.04	2.03
	WPOI	Chandrika	889	0.48	0.11
	BSP	Jobish Balussery	476	0.26	0.12
	Independent	Dharmendran	247	0.13	−
	RPI	Mohandas	115	0.06	−
Margin of victory			20,372	TBD	TBD
Turnout			182,253	81.27
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	TBD

There were 2,09,667 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.^[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Balusseri
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Purushan Kadalundy	82,914	47.50	1.68
	IUML	U. C. Raman Padanilam	67,450	38.64	−
	BJP	P. K. Supran	19,324	11.07	4.91
	SDPI	Balan Nadavannur	1,764	1.01	0.08
	WPOI	Saseendran Bappankad	959	0.59	−
	Independent	Raman Thachampoyil Meethal	710	0.41	−
	NOTA	None of the above	638	0.37	−
	Independent	K. T. Sivan	497	0.28	−
	Independent	Jayarajan	312	0.18	−
Margin of victory			15,464	8.86	2.97
Turnout			1,74,568	83.26	1.68
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	1.68

There were 1,85,109 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[5]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Balusseri
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Purushan Kadalundi	74,259	49.18
	INC	A. Balaram	65,377	43.29
	BJP	T. K. Raman	9,304	6.16
	SDPI	Bhadran M. P.	1,404	0.93
	BSP	K. K. Satheesh	660	0.14
Margin of victory			9,882	5.89
Turnout			1,51,004	81.58
	CPI(M) gain from NCP		Swing