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Attingal Assembly constituency

constituency of the Kerala legislative assembly in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ16136708 ↗
Source-derived summary

Attingal 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 Attingal Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2026 assembly elections, the current MLA is O. S. Ambika of CPI(M).

Local self-governed segments

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

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Election results

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

2026

2021

There were 2,02,123 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.

2016

There were 1,98,678 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.

2011

There were 1,71,684 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.

2006

2001

There were 1,36,588 registered voters in the constituency for the 2001 election.

1996

There were 1,26,378 registered voters in the constituency for the 1996 election.

1991

There were 1,30,610 registered voters in the constituency for the 1991 election.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Attingal Assembly constituency” is constituency of the Kerala legislative assembly in India. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Attingal, Assembly and constituency, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. 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. For this dossier, Attingal, Assembly and constituency is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “constituency of the Kerala legislative assembly in India” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

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 May 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16136708. Authority coordinates are 8.690, 76.810. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2026, 2021, 2016 and 2011.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Attingal 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.