Ollur Assembly constituency

Ollur State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Thrissur Lok Sabha constituency.^[1][2] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is K. Rajan of CPI.

Ollur was a citadel of Indian National Congress for a long time, yet occasionally it had gone to Communist Party of India. The constituency has 1,00,750 male and 1,07,128 female voters. Ollur has been a bellwether constituency since 1982. Every MLA since 1982 has been part of the ruling party or alliance in Kerala.

Local self governed segments

Ollur Niyama Sabha constituency is composed of the following 14 wards of the Thrissur Municipal Corporation (Ollur zone, Mannuthy zone and Koorkenchery zone), and 4 Gram Panchayats in Thrissur Taluk:^[3]

Members of Legislative Assembly

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

Key

  CPI   INC   CPI(M)

Election results

2021

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Ollur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	K. Rajan	76,657	49.09	1.54
	INC	Jose Valloor	55,151	35.31	3.45
	BJP	Adv. B.Gopalakrishnan	22,295	14.28	2.54
	NOTA	None of the above	827	0.51	-
	BSP	P K Subramanian	282	0.18	-
	Independent	{{{candidate}}}	628	0.4	-
	Independent	Benny Kodiyatil	331	0.21	-
Margin of victory			21,506	13.78
	CPI hold		Swing	1.54
Turnout			1,56,171	{{{percentage}}}

2016

There were 1,93,404 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.^[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Ollur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	K. Rajan	71,666	47.55	3.08
	INC	M. P. Vincent	58,418	38.76	10.45
	BDJS	P. K. Santosh	17,694	11.74	-
	NOTA	None of the above	1,151	0.76	-
	PDP	Majeed Mullakara	696	0.46	-
	CPI(ML) Red Star	Sajimon Manjamattam	334	0.22	-
	Independent	Vincent M. D. Marottikkal	279	0.19	-
	Independent	K. G. Rajan	267	0.18
	Independent	V. N. Asokhan	214	0.14	-
Margin of victory			13,248	8.79
	CPI gain from INC		Swing	3.08
Turnout			1,50,719	77.93	3.46

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,76,875 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[5]

References

10°29′N 76°14′E / 10.49°N 76.24°E / 10.49; 76.24