Palakkad Assembly constituency, formerly known as Palghat 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 Palakkad Lok Sabha constituency.

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

Sl no.NameStatus (Gram panchayat/municipality)Taluk1PalakkadMunicipalityPalakkad2KannadiGrama panchayatPalakkad3PirayiriGrama panchayatPalakkad4MathurGrama panchayatAlathur

Members of the Legislative Assembly The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented Palakkad Assembly constituency during the period of various assemblies:

ElectionNiyama SabhaNamePartyTenureMadras State 1952 1st K. Ramakrishnan 1952 – 1957Kerala State 1957 1st R. Raghava Menon 1957 – 1960 1960 2nd 1960 – 1965 1967 3rdR. Krishnan 1967 – 1970 1970 4th 1970 – 1977 1977 5thC. M. Sundaram 1977 – 1980 1980 6th 1980 – 1982 1982 7th 1982 – 1987 1987 8th 1987 – 1991 1991 9th 1991 – 1996 1996 10th T. K. Noushad 1996 – 2001 2001 11th K. Sankaranarayanan 2001 – 2006 2006 12th K. K. Divakaran 2006 – 2011 2011 13thShafi Parambil 2011 – 2016 2016 14th 2016 – 2021 202115th 2021 – 2024 2024^ Rahul Mamkootathil 2024 – 2026202616thRamesh Pisharody2026 – present ^by-election

Election history ElectionVotes polledWinnerRunner-up 1Runner-up 2Margin of victory Year Name PartyVotes Name PartyVotes Name PartyVotes Votes Percent2026147192 Ramesh Pisharody6219942.26%Sobha Surendran4905233.33%N.M.R. Razack3393123.05%13,1478.93%2024*138120 (70.93%) Rahul Mamkootathil58389 44.27% C. Krishnakumar3954928.63%P. Sarin 3729324.52%18,84013.64 %2021 142104Shafi Parambil5407938.06% E. Sreedharan5022035.34%C. P. Pramod3643325.64%38592.71 % 2016 137804 (77.25%) Shafi Parambil 57559 41.77% Sobha Surendran 40076 29.08% N. N. Krishnadas 38675 28.07% 17483 12.69% 2011 112347 (72.78%) Shafi Parambil 47641 42.41% K. K. Divakaran 40238 35.82% C. Udaybhaskar 22317 19.86% 7403 6.59%Major delimitation of constituency 2006 111346 (71.60%) K. K. Divakaran 41166 36.97% A. V. Gopinathan 39822 35.76% O. Rajagopal 27667 24.85% 1344 1.21% 2001 110964 (68.05%) K. Sankaranarayanan 53831 48.51% T. K. Noushad 43026 38.77% Rema Raghunandan 12159 10.96% 10805 9.74% 1996 89872 (62.06%) T. K. Noushad 39198 43.20% C. M. Sundaram 38602 42.54% S. R. Balasubramanian 11446 12.61% 596 0.66% 1991 91895 (66.34%) C. M. Sundaram 41432 45.09% M.S. Gopalakrishnan 37925 41.27% T. M. P. Iyer 10648 11.59% 3507 3.82% 1987 87434 (76.18%) C. M. Sundaram 38774 44.35% Girija Surendran 32709 37.41% V. S. Muthuswamy 12489 14.28% 6065 6.94% 1982 65246 (68.47%) C. M. Sundaram 29011 44.46% N. A. Kareem 25841 39.61% O. Rajagopal 9554 14.64% 3170 4.86% 1980 62884 (60.57%) C. M. Sundaram 35902 57.09% K. A. Chandran 25695 40.86% C. K. Chinnan Master 1099 1.75% 10207 16.23% 1977 60315 (74.92%) C. M. Sundaram 30160 50.00% R. Krishnan 27357 45.36% V. R. Purushothaman 1121 1.86% 2803 4.65%Major delimitation of constituency 1970 57068 (69.92%) R. Krishnan 23113 40.50% A. Chandran Nair 17653 30.93% O. Rajagopal 15646 27.42% 5460 9.57% 1967 45494 (68.75%) R. Krishnan 24627 54.13% K. Sankaranarayanan 14996 32.96% O. Rajagopal 4649 10.22% 9631 21.17% 1965 42804 (66.23%) M. V. Vasu 17747 41.46% K. Pyarijan Sunna Saheb 13260 30.98% P. K. Krishnaswamy 5279 12.33% 4487 10.48%Major delimitation of constituency 1960 51334 (80.64%) R. Raghava Menon 26546 51.71% K. C. Gopalanunni 24788 48.29%Only two candidates contested 1758 3.42% 1957 35179 (59.31%) R. Raghava Menon 14873 42.28% M. P. Kunhiraman 14248 40.50% C. K. Moosath 6058 17.22% 625 1.78%Madras State 1952 45555 (59.29%) K. Ramakrishnan 26469 58.10% P. Vasu Menon 14342 31.48% V. Echara Menon 2484 5.45% 12127 26.62%

Detailed election results

Local body elections

2025 SegmentsLDFNDAUDFINDSDPIWPIAAPLeading alliancePalakkad189412693326316368546114991277847NDAKannadi7750298660134060023817393LDFPirayiri1050451891093626030128027510UDFMathur80402894630946000017703LDFTotal43385380024957471544611627250140453%30.8893366527.0567378435.29579295.0935188280.32822367621.1583946230.177995486

Assembly elections

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

2026

By local self-governed segment: +Status (Gram panchayat/municipality)Votes Ramesh Pisharody Sobha Surendran NMR Razack Palakkad33,40931,07515,684Pirayiri15,4867,2606,246Mathur6,5104,5785,878Kannadi5,9745,2795,724Postal Ballots820860399

2024 by-election

There were 1,94,706 eligible voters in Palakkad Assembly constituency for the 2024 by-election.

By local self-governed segment: +Status (Gram panchayat/municipality)VotesUDFNDALDFPalakkad31,78727,19716,719Pirayiri13,4645,3426,846Mathur6,5293,0896,926Kannadi6,2723,6186,665

2021

There were 1,88,789 eligible voters in Palakkad Assembly constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.

By local self-governed segment: +Status (Gram panchayat/municipality)VotesUDFNDALDFPalakkad27,90534,14316,455Pirayiri12,8156,3556,614Mathur6,4453,9606,475Kannadi5,9654,6976,078

2016 There were 1,78,387 eligible voters in Palakkad Assembly constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.

2011 There were 1,54,374 eligible voters in Palakkad Assembly constituency for the 2011 Kerala Assembly election.

2006 There were 155,550 eligible voters in Palghat Assembly constituency for the 2006 Kerala Assembly election.

2001 There were 163,131 eligible voters in Palghat Assembly constituency for the 2001 Kerala Assembly election.

1996 There were 149,171 eligible voters in Palghat Assembly constituency for the 1996 Kerala Assembly election.

1991 There were 140,683 eligible voters in Palghat Assembly constituency for the 1991 Kerala Assembly election.

1987 There were 115,949 eligible voters in Palghat Assembly constituency for the 1987 Kerala Assembly election.

1982 There were 96,367 eligible voters in Palghat Assembly constituency for the 1982 Kerala Assembly election.

1980 There were 104,428 eligible voters in Palghat Assembly constituency for the 1980 Kerala Assembly election.

1977 There were 84,546 eligible voters in Palghat Assembly constituency for the 1977 Kerala Assembly election.

1970 There were 83,098 eligible voters in Palghat Assembly constituency for the 1970 Kerala Assembly election.

1967 There were 69,273 eligible voters in Palghat Assembly constituency for the 1967 Kerala Assembly election.

1965 There were 65,960 eligible voters in Palghat Assembly constituency for the 1965 Kerala Assembly election.

1960 There were 64,542 eligible voters in Palghat Assembly constituency for the 1960 Kerala Assembly election.

1957 There were 59,314 eligible voters in Palghat Assembly constituency for the 1957 Kerala Assembly election.

1952 There were 76,828 eligible voters in Palghat Assembly constituency for the 1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election.

See also Palakkad Palakkad district List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election

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