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About the Constituency:
One of the 20 Lok Sabha seats in the southern Indian state of Kerala is Vatakara, which is also known as Badagara. The Vatakara Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 3) consists of 1,071,171 number of electorates in totality, of these 505,692 are males and 565,479 are females as the Election commission of India 2009 data suggests. This Lok Sabha constituency is situated in the Vatakara taluk, with the coastal municipality of Vatakara being the administrative headquarters of the taluk.
About Vatakara:
Being a coastal region, the primary occupation of the land is fishing, which constitutes the bulk of the economy. Commercial and trading centres in the region dot this parliamentary constituency.
Assembly Seats:
A total of seven assembly segments comprise this parliamentary constituency of Vatakara.
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Names of Assembly Constituencies |
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Thalassery |
Kuthuparamba |
Vatakara |
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Kuttiadi |
Nadapuram |
Quilandy |
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Perambra |
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Political Background:
This constituency in the state had as its most renowned political leader, the Congress MP K. P. Unnikrishnan. Unnikrishnan received the support of masses in Vatakara for two decades in a row, being elected as MP from 1971 to 1991.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has been representing this seat for the last few Lok Sabha elections.