Taliparamba Assembly constituency

Taliparamba 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 Kannur Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2021 Assembly elections, the current MLA is M. V. Govindan of CPI(M).

Local self-governed segments

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

Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Anthoor	Municipality	Taliparamba
2	Taliparamba	Municipality	Taliparamba
3	Chapparapadavu	Grama panchayat	Taliparamba
4	Kolachery	Grama panchayat	Taliparamba
5	Kurumathur	Grama panchayat	Taliparamba
6	Kuttiattoor	Grama panchayat	Taliparamba
7	Malapattam	Grama panchayat	Taliparamba
8	Mayyil	Grama panchayat	Taliparamba
9	Pariyaram	Grama panchayat	Taliparamba

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

Election	Niyama Sabha	Name	Party	Tenure
1967	3rd	K. P. R. Poduval		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	C. P. Govindan Nambiar		Indian National Congress	1970 – 1977
1977	5th	M. V. Raghavan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	C. P. Moosankutty	1980 – 1982
1982	7th	1982 – 1987
1987	8th	K. K. N. Pariyaram	1987 – 1991
1991	9th	Pacheni Kunhiraman	1991 – 1996
1996	10th	M. V. Govindan	1996 – 2001
2001	11th	2001 – 2006
2006	12th	C. K. P. Padmanabhan	2006 – 2011
2011	13th	James Mathew	2011 – 2016
2016	14th	2016-2021
2021	15th	M. V. Govindan	Incumbent

There were 2,13,096 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 election.

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Taliparamba
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	M. V. Govindan	92,870	52.14	4.81
	INC	V. P. Abdul Rasheed	70,181	39.40	7.84
	BJP	A. P. Gangadharan	13,058	7.33	1.88
	NOTA	None of the above	789	0.44	−
	Independent	K. O. P. Shijith	508	0.29	−
	Independent	Abdul Rasheed s/o Ismail	365	0.20	−
	Independent	C. Balakrishnan Yadav	191	0.11	−
	Independent	Govindan Karayapath	150	0.08	−
Margin of victory	22,689	10.74	14.65
Turnout	1,78,112	83.58	2.61
	CPI(M) hold	Swing	4.81

There were 1,97,568 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Taliparamba
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	James Mathew	91,106	56.95	0.82
	KC(M)	Rajesh Nambiar	50,489	31.56	5.27
	BJP	P. Balakrishnan	14,742	9.21	4.71
	SDPI	Ibrahim Thiruvatoor	1,323	0.83	0.51
	NOTA	None of the above	867	0.54	−
	BSP	P. K .Ayyappan	675	0.42	0.22
	Independent	K. Sadanandan	288	0.18	−
	Independent	K. Rajesh Kumar	287	0.18	−
	Independent	P. V. Anil	203	0.13	−
Margin of victory	40,617	25.39	6.09
Turnout	1,59,980	80.97	1.62
	CPI(M) hold	Swing	0.82

There were 1,74,788 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Taliparamba
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	James Mathew	81,031	56.13
	KC(M)	Job Michel	53,170	36.83
	BJP	K. Jayaprakash	6,492	4.50
	SDPI	Muhammadali S. P.	1,930	1.34
	BSP	Nidheesh Thillankeri	927	0.64
	Independent	Thomas M. V.	813	0.56
Margin of victory	27,861	19.30
Turnout	1,44,363	82.59
	CPI(M) hold	Swing

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Thaliparamba
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	T. C. Narayanan Nambiar	31,988	64.82%
	INC	V. V. Damodaran Nayanar	13,658	27.67%	27.67%
	Independent	N. Abuchengalan	2,002	4.06%
	Independent	K. V. George	1,704	3.45%
Margin of victory	18,330	37.14%
Turnout	49,352	67.24%
Registered electors	73,401
	CPI win (new seat)