Ottapalam is an Assembly constituency in the Palakkad district, in the Cochin region of Kerala. The Ottapalam constituency went to the polls on April 6, 2021. The assembly seat is reserved for the General category.
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In the 2016 Assembly elections, Ottapalam was won by P Unni of INC. Before that, in the 2011 elections, the seat was held by M. Hamza of CPIM. In the 2016 assembly polls, P Unni garnered 67161 votes, securing over 44.71 percent of the vote share, and winning the seat by a margin of 16088 votes.
In percentage terms, the victory margin was 10.71 percent. The constituency polled 150224 votes in the 2016 Kerala assembly polls with a voter turnout of 76.01 percent. The Ottapalam constituency has a literacy level of 88.49 percent. A total of 9 candidates stood in the 2016 elections.
(Edited by : Jomy)