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Alappuzha Assembly constituency

constituency of the Kerala legislative assembly in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ13110290 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alappuzha State assembly constituency is one 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 Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency. The current MLA is A.D. Thomas of INC.

Local self-governed segments

Alappuzha Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:

Members of Legislative Assembly

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

*by-election

Election results

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

2026

2021

There were 1,54,149 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.

2016

There were 1,41,243 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.

2011

There were 1,93,532 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.

2009

There is a bye election will be conducted in Alappuzha assembly constituency at 2009 due to the resignation of sitting MLA K.C. Venugopal.

2006

There were 1,14,200 registered voters in the constituency for the 2006 election.

2001

There were 1,38,117 registered voters in the constituency for the 2001 election.

1996

There were 1,26,537 registered voters in the constituency for the 1996 election.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Alappuzha Assembly constituency” as constituency of the Kerala legislative assembly in India. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026, 2021, 2016, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Alappuzha, Assembly and constituency can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as constituency of the Kerala legislative assembly in India. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13110290. Authority coordinates are 9.510, 76.340. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2026, 2021, 2016 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alappuzha Assembly constituency” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.