Ponnai Lok Sabha Constituency Constituency number: 7 Total electors: 1,178,325 (2014 estimates) Female electors: 6,06,384 Male electors: 5,71,941 Reserved: No Delimited: No Assembly Constituencies: Tirurangadi, Tanur, Tirur, Kottakkal, Thavanur, Ponnani, Thrithala Results in last four Lok Sabha elections: GM Bannatwala won the election in 1999. He was succeeded by E Ahamed. ET Muhammed Basheer has been the sitting MP since 2009. All three candidates belong to IUML. Demographics: Of the seven assembly constituencies, six fall in the Malappuram district. Only Thrithala comes under the Palakkad district. The constituency is a Muslim majority area and has been loyal to IUML. Sitting MP ET Muhammed Basheer will run for a third time in the 2019 elections. The Left Front has fielded sitting Nilambur MLA PV Anwar. The CPM politician took a beating last year after he was accused of illegal construction in a water park.
ET Muhammed Basheer has been the sitting MP since the 2009 Lok Sabha election, belonging to IUML.
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