Elections in Kerala

Elections in Kerala are regularly held to fill government officials at all levels of government in both Kerala and India as a whole. These range from national elections to regional local body or panchayat elections.

Kerala

The Assembly of Kerala can create laws regarding the conduct of local body elections unilaterally while any changes by the state legislature to the conduct of state level elections need to be approved by the Parliament of India. In addition, the state legislature may be dismissed by the Parliament according to Article 356 of the Indian Constitution and President's rule may be imposed.

State Election Commission prepares the electoral rolls of Panchayats, Municipalities and Municipal Corporation and conduct their elections. The State Election Commissioner is also the Chairman of the Delimitation Commission.[1]

State Legislative Assembly Elections

State-level elections are held to fill the Kerala Legislative Assembly.[2][3] The latest Assembly elections were held on 16 May 2016.[4]

YearWinning Party / CoalitionSeats

won

 Runner upSeats wonOthers Chief Minister
1957Communist Party of India (CPI)60 Indian National Congress (INC)439 E. M. S. Namboodiripad
1960INC + Praja Socialist Party (PSP)83 CPI2911 Pattom Thanu Pillai

R. Sankar

1965 CPI + Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) + Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) 59 INC 43 31 President's Rule
1967United Front (1967-69)104920 E. M. S. Namboodiripad
1970United Front (1970-79)72 CPI(M) 2931 C. Achutha Menon
19771111720 K. Karunakaran

A. K. Anthony

P. K. Vasudevan Nair

President's Rule

1980Left Democratic Front (LDF) (with Kerala Congress and Indian National Congress (Urs))93 UDF 461 E. K. Nayanar

K. Karunakaran

President's Rule

1982United Democratic Front (UDF)77 LDF 630 K. Karunakaran
1987LDF78 UDF 611 E. K. Nayanar
1991UDF 90 LDF 482 K. Karunakaran
1996LDF 80 UDF 591 E. K. Nayanar
2001UDF 99 LDF 401 A. K. Anthony

Oommen Chandy

2006LDF 98 UDF 420 V. S. Achuthanandan
2011UDF 72 LDF 680 Oommen Chandy
2016LDF 91 UDF 472 Pinarayi Vijayan
2021 Scheduled[5]

Lok Sabha elections
Year Lok Sabha Election Winning Party/Coalition Seats won Runnerup Seats won Other parties Seats won
1951 1st Indian National Congress 6 Revolutionary Socialist Party 1 TTC/Independents 1 / 3
1957 2nd Communist Party of India 9 Indian National Congress 6 PSP/Independents 1 / 2
1962 3rd INC/PSP/IUML 8 CPI 6 RSP/ Independents 1 / 3
1967 4th United Front (1967-69) 17 INC 1 Independents 2
1971 5th United Front (1970-79) 16 CPI(M) 2 1
1977 6th 20 0 0
1980 7th LDF 10 UDF 8 2
1984 8th UDF 17 LDF 1 2
1989 9th 17 3 0
1991 10th 15 5 0
1996 11th LDF 10 UDF 10 0
1998 12th UDF 11 LDF 9 0
1999 13th 11 9 0
2004 14th LDF 18 UDF 1 1
2009 15th UDF 16 LDF 4 0
2014 16th 12 8 0
2019 17th 19 1 0

Local Self Government institutions

Panchayat Elections is a term widely used in Kerala, India, for the polls that are held to select the Local Self-government Representatives. There are three branches of local self-government institutions in Kerala. They are Graman Panchayat which can be translated as Village Government, Block Panchayat and District Panchayat. A Grama Panchayat is almost an equivalent to City administration and District Panchayat to a County. There are two more wings namely Municipality which is another form of Block Panchayat that exists only in major towns and Corporations that come only in six major cities. Consequent to the 73rd Amendment to the Constitution of India, the local self-government institutions (LSGIs) are to function as the third tier of government.[6]

At present, there are 1200 local governments in Kerala, which includes 941 Grama Panchayats, 152 Block Panchayats, 14 District Panchayats, 77 Taluks, 87 Municipalities and 6 Municipal Corporations.[7]

The last Election to the Local Self-government Institutions in Kerala (Panchayat Elections) was held in 2020 december. The results were announced on 16 december 2020.[8] Next local body elections are scheduled to be held in 2025.[9]

Year Local body Party/Alliance
LDF UDF BJP OTH
2015 Gram Panchayat 551 362 14 14
Dist. Panchayat 7 7 0 0
Block Panchayat[10] 90 61 0 1
Corporation 4 2 0 0
Municipality 43 41 1 1

See also

Notes
    1. "Messages". sec.kerala.gov.in. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
    2. "History of kerala legislature - Government of Kerala, India". kerala.gov.in. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
    3. http://www.keralaassembly.org/
    4. "Kerala Assembly Election Schedule 2016". Election Commission India.
    5. "What will force Mr Modi to change course will be the outcome of the state elections in 2020-21". The Indian Express. 29 December 2019. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
    6. Jha, B. K. "All About India's Panchayati Raj System". ruralmarketing.in. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
    7. "Local Self-Governance - Government of Kerala, India". kerala.gov.in. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
    8. "Local body polls in Kerala to be held on November 2 and 5". The Hindu. Special Correspondent. 4 October 2015. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 11 September 2020.CS1 maint: others (link)
    9. Suresh, M. K. "Kerala to conduct local body elections in October". Mathrubhumi. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
    10. "Kerala civic poll results: LDF takes lead, big gains for BJP". The Indian Express. 7 November 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
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