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Peringalam Assembly constituency

constituency of the Kerala Legislative Assembly

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMay 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ16135985 ↗
Source-derived summary

Peringalam State Assembly constituency was one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala in southern India, before the 2008 delimitation of constituencies. It was one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Vatakara Lok Sabha constituency until the 2008 delimitation. The last election to the constituency was conducted in 2006, and the MLA was K. P. Mohanan of JD(S).

After the delimitation in 2008, Kariyad, Kunnothuparamba, Mokeri, Panoor, Pattiom, Peringalam, and Thrippangottur Gram Panchayats became a part of Kuthuparamba Assembly constituency, whereas Chokli and Panniyannur were added to Thalassery Assembly constituency.

Local self-governed segments

Peringalam Assembly constituency was composed of the following local self-governed segments:

Election history

* Bypoll

Election results

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

2006

There were 1,48,842 registered voters in Peringalam Constituency for the 2006 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.

2001

There were 1,44,564 registered voters in Peringalam Constituency for the 2001 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.

See also

Peringalam

Kuthuparamba (State Assembly constituency)

Kannur district

List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly

2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election

References

External links

"Statistical reports of assembly elections". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010.

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

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2006, 2001, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Peringalam, Assembly and constituency is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Peringalam 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.