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Peringalam Assembly Constituency
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kannur District
Kannur () is one of the 14 Districts of Kerala, districts along the west coast in the state of Kerala, India. The city of Kannur is the district headquarters and gives the district its name. The old name, Cannanore, is the anglicized form of the Malayalam name "Kannur". Kannur district is bounded by Kasaragod District to the north, Kozhikode district to the south, Mahé district to the southwest and Wayanad District to the southeast. To the east, the district is bounded by the Western Ghats, which forms the border with the state of Karnataka (Kodagu district). The Arabian Sea lies to the west. Paithalmala is the highest point in Kannur District (1,372m). Enclosed within the southern part of the district is the Mahé district of the Union Territory of Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry. The district was established in 1957. Kannur Municipal Corporation is the sixth-largest urban local body in the state and Kannur Cantonment is the only Cantonment Board in Kerala. Indian Nav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thalassery Assembly Constituency
Thalassery State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala. It is also one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Vatakara Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2021 Assembly elections, the MLA is A. N. Shamseer of CPI(M). Local self-governed segments Thalassery 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 Thalassery Assembly constituency during the period of various assemblies: Key *by-election Election results 2021 There were 1,75,143 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 election. 2016 There were 1,67,024 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election. 2011 There were 1,49,689 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election. 1952 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Kerala Legislative Assembly Election
The elections to the Eighth Kerala Assembly were held on 23 March 1987. The UDF and the LDF were the two major political fronts in the arena. The UDF had the INC(I), IUML, KC(J), KC(M), NDP (P), SRP(S) and the RSP(S) as its constituents. The LDF consisted of the CPI(M), CPI, RSP, IC(S), Janata Party and the Lok Dal. Background Kerala saw polarisation and splits of political forces since the formation of the United Democratic Front Ministry on 24 May 1982. The merger of the two factions of the Indian National Congress, the INC (I) and the INC (A), in November 1982 marked the beginning of the political polarization. Another important event was the reunion of the IUML and the AIML in August 1985. Before the election, the Kerala Congress once again split into two; each faction continuing to remain in the UDF. A faction of the Congress (S) and the Janata (G) also joined the INC (I). In the meantime, there were splits in the NDP and the Socialist Republican Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Kerala Legislative Assembly Election
The 1991 Kerala Legislative Assembly election was held on 18 June 1991 to elect members to the Kerala Legislative Assembly, Niyamasabha. The incumbent Left Democratic Front (Kerala), LDF government, which was in power from 1987, decided to seek a fresh mandate one year ahead of the expiry of its term. The decision was prompted by the announcement of the elections to the Lok Sabha and the Front's good showing in the elections to the local bodies held in the previous year. The elections saw the LDF losing power and the United Democratic Front (Kerala), UDF returning to power after four years. K. Karunakaran, the leader of the UDF alliance, was sworn in as the Chief Minister of the state on 24 June 1991. This was the final election in which the two major fronts were led by K. Karunakaran and E.K. Nayanar respectively. Results Kerala Assembly Election Results in 1991. References External links Kerala Assembly Election DATABASE {{Kerala Niyamasabha elections 1991 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janata Dal
Janata Dal () was an List of political parties in India, Indian political party which was formed through the merger of Lok Dal, Indian National Congress (Jagjivan), and the Jan Morcha on 11 October 1988—the birth anniversary of Jayaprakash Narayan under the leadership of V. P. Singh. History V. P. Singh united the entire disparate spectrum of parties ranging from regional parties such as the Telugu Desam Party, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, and the Asom Gana Parishad, together and formed the National Front (India), National Front with N. T. Rama Rao as President and Vishwanath Pratap Singh, V. P. Singh as convenor. The front also included outside support from the Right-wing politics, right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left-wing politics, left-wing Left Front, led by the Communist Party of India and Communist Party of India (Marxist). They defeated Rajiv Gandhi's Congress (I) in the 1989 parliamentary elections. His government fell after Lalu Prasad Yadav got L. K. Adva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Kerala Legislative Assembly Election
The 1996 Kerala Legislative Assembly election was held in May 1996 to elect members to the Kerala State Assembly. Polls were held simultaneously in all 140 seats and resulted in a voter turnout of 71.16%. The then Leader of opposition, V. S. Achuthanandan lost from Mararikulam, a Marxist bastion. It is only the second instance in Kerala that the chief ministerial candidate of a major party lost in an election (In 1965, R. Sankar, former Congress Chief Minister lost from the Attingal constituency. However, in that election, no party was able to form a government). On 20 May 1996, a 14 member cabinet of Left Democratic Front led by former Chief Minister E. K. Nayanar was sworn in. Nayanar was not an elected member of the assembly at that time, and was later elected from Thalassery Constituency. Nayanar subsequently went on to become the longest serving Chief Minister of the state. Results By-constituency By-election : References External links Kerala Asse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly Election
The 2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election was held on 10 May 2001 to elect members to the Kerala State Assembly. Polls were held simultaneously in all 140 seats and resulted in a voter turnout of 72.47%. The election saw a change of guard in the state with the United Democratic Front winning 99 seats as opposed to the 40 won by the Left Democratic Front. The remaining seat was won by a UDF rebel candidate. This election remains to have been the last one in which the Indian National Congress was the largest party in the legislative assembly, with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) emerging as the leading party in every successive election, including in 2011, when the UDF won by a wafer-thin margin of 2 seats. Parties and Alliances Results Constituency-Wise results References {{Kerala Niyamasabha elections Kerala 2011 2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's Bharatiya Jana Sangh. Since 2014, it has been the List of ruling political parties by country, ruling political party in India under the incumbent Prime Minister of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP is aligned with right-wing politics and has close ideological and organisational links to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Far-right politics, far-right Paramilitary organization, paramilitary organisation. Its policies adhere to Hindutva, a Hindu nationalism, Hindu nationalist ideology. it is the country's biggest political party in terms of representation in the Parliament of India as well as State legislature (India), state legislatures. The party's origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which was founded in 1951 by In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Union Muslim League
Indian Union Muslim League (abbreviated as the IUML or Muslim League) is a political party primarily based in Kerala. It is recognised as a List of political parties in India, State Party in Kerala by the Election Commission of India. After the Partition of India, the first Council of the Indian segment of the All-India Muslim League was held on 10 March 1948 at the south Indian city of Madras (now Chennai).Wright, T. (1966). The Muslim League in South India since Independence: A Study in Minority Group Political Strategies. ''The American Political Science Review,'' ''60''(3), 579-599. The party renamed itself as the 'Indian Union Muslim League' and adopted a new constitution on 1 September 1951. IUML is a major member of the opposition United Democratic Front (Kerala), United Democratic Front, the Indian National Congress, INC-led pre-poll state level alliance in Kerala.James Chiriyankandath (1996) Changing Muslim politics in Kerala: identity, interests and political strategie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thalassery (State Assembly Constituency)
Thalassery State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala. It is also one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Vatakara Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2021 Assembly elections, the MLA is A. N. Shamseer of CPI(M). Local self-governed segments Thalassery 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 Thalassery Assembly constituency during the period of various assemblies: Key *by-election Election results 2021 There were 1,75,143 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 election. 2016 There were 1,67,024 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election. 2011 There were 1,49,689 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election. 1952 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuthuparamba (State Assembly Constituency)
Kuthuparamba 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 Vatakara Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2021 Assembly elections, the current MLA is K. P. Mohanan of Loktantrik Janata Dal. Local self-governed segments Seven out of the nine local bodies included by the 2008 delimitation in the current Kuthuparamba Assembly constituency were parts of the erstwhile Peringalam Assembly constituency before the delimitation. In 2015, the Gram panchayats of Panoor, Peringalam, and Kariyad were merged to form Panoor Municipality. Kuthuparamba 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 2021 2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thalassery
Thalassery () (also called Tellicherry) is a city and municipality on the Malabar Coast in Kannur district in the state of Kerala, India, bordered by the districts of Mahe and Kozhikode. Thalassery municipality has a population of just under 100,000 as of 2011 census. Thalassery Heritage City has an area of . Thalassery has an altitude ranging from above mean sea-level. It is located 25 km (15 mi) from Vadakara, 15 km (10 mi) from Mahé and 22 km (13 mi) from Kannur. Tellicherry municipality was formed on 1 November 1866 according to the Madras Act 10 of 1865 (Amendment of the Improvements in City act 1850) of the British Indian Empire, making it the second oldest municipality in the state. At that time, the municipality was known as Tellicherry Commission and Tellicherry was the capital of North Malabar. G. M. Ballard, the Malabar collector, was the first president of the municipal commission. A European barrister, A. F. Lamaral, would later become the first Chairman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
