Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Mavelikkara, Kerala
Lok Sabha Elections 2019 constituency watch of Mavelikkara, Kerala.
Mavelikkara is one of the 20 Lok Sabha constituencies of Kerala.

Formed in 1960 and spread over three districts, the Mavelikkara Lok Sabha constituency carries on its shoulders the legacy of being a princely state and culture derived on the banks of river Achankovil.
The United Democratic Front has won the constituency 10 times in the past. The only one time that the UDF was defeated by the Left Democratic Front (LDF) since 1989 was in 2004 when CS Sujatha of the CPI(M) defeated Congress’s Ramesh Chennithala with a slim margin of 7,414 votes.
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In 2008, after the delimitation exercise, the Mavelikkara constituency was reserved for the Scheduled Caste community .
In 2014, the Congress’s Kodikkunnil Suresh had handed the CPI’s Chengara Surendran a sound defeat with a margin of 32,737 votes
In the 2016 assembly election, the LDF had come out victorious in five of the seven assembly segments in the Mavelikkara Lok Sabha constituency, indicating a possible tilt towards the Left.
The general elections will be held across India in seven phases beginning April 11 and the counting of votes will take place on May 23.
Here’s all you need to know about the Mavelikkara Lok Sabha constituency:
State: Kerala
Name of the Lok Sabha constituency: Mavelikkara
Sitting MP, Party: Kodikunnil Suresh, Congress
Winning margin in 2014: 32,737
Runner up name, party: Chengara Surendran, CPI
Number of voters in 2014: 889,269
Percentage of votes polled in 2014: 81
Number of polling booths in 2014: 1,147
Number of women voters: 472,091