Kasaragod district has four types of administrative hierarchies:

• Taluk and Village administration managed by the provincial government of Kerala
• Panchayath Administration managed by the local bodies
• Parliament Constituencies for the federal government of India
• Assembly Constituencies for the provincial government of Kerala

Villages in Kasaragod District

Kasaragod Area

• Badiadka, Mogral Puthur, Madhur and Kumbadaje
• Bellur, Karadka, Chengala, Muliyar, Chemnad, Cheroor and Menangod.
• Bedadka, Kuttikkol, Uduma and Pullur-Periya

Kanhangad Area

• Ajanur, Kodom-Bellur, Madikai, Kinanoor-Karinthalam and Ballal
• West Eleri, East Eleri, Kallar, Parappa and Panathadi

Nileshwar Area

• Nileshwar,Kinavoor, Kayyur-Cheemeni and Trikaripur
• Padanna, Valiyaparamba and Pilikkode

Manjeshwar Area

• Vorkadi, Meenja, Paivalike and Enmakaje
• Mangalpadi, Kumbla and Puthige

Kasaragod Parliament Constituency

Kasaragod is a Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala.

Assembly segments

Kasaragod Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:^[1]

1. Manjeshwaram
2. Kasaragod
3. Udma
4. Kanhangad
5. Thrikaripur
6. Payyanur
7. Kalliasseri

Members of Parliament

• 1957: A.K. Gopalan, Communist Party of India
• 1962: A.K. Gopalan, Communist Party of India
• 1967: A.K. Gopalan, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• 1971: Ramachandran Kadannappalli, Indian National Congress
• 1977: Ramachandran Kadannappalli, Indian National Congress
• 1980: Ramanna Rai, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• 1984: I. Rama Rai, Indian National Congress (I)
• 1989: Ramanna Rai, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• 1991: Ramanna Rai, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• 1996: T. Govindan, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• 1998: T. Govindan, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• 1999: T. Govindan, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• 2004: P. Karunakaran, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• 2009: P. Karunakaran, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• 2014: P. Karunakaran, Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Indian general election, 2014

Left Democratic Front (LDF) has fielded sitting MP and veteran parliamentarian P. Karunakaran as the candidate in the Lok Sabha Elections 2014. T. Siddique was the United Democratic Front (UDF) candidate while K. Surendran was the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate.^[2]