Kunnathur | |
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Constituency No. 118 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | South India |
State | Kerala |
District | Kollam |
Established | 1957 |
Total electors | 2,08,541 (2021) |
Reservation | SC |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent | |
Party | RSP(L) |
Alliance | LDF |
Elected year | 2021 |
Kunnathur is the only Scheduled Caste reserved legislative assembly constituency in Kollam district of Kerala, India. It is one among the 11 assembly constituencies in the district.[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is Kovoor Kunjumon of RSP(L).
As per the recent changes on assembly constituency delimitations, the Kunnathur assembly constituency consists of East Kallada, Munroe Island, Kunnathur, Mynagappally, Poruvazhy, Sasthamcotta, Sooranad North, Sooranad South, West Kallada, Pavithreswaram Panchayats in Kollam district.[2][3]
The Kunnathur constituency was a two-member constituency till 1965. It officially became an SC reserved constituency since Kerala State Assembly Election 1967.[4]
Year | Winner | Party | Vote Margin |
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1951 | Aadichan | Indian National Congress | 5,316 |
1951 | Madhavan Unnithan | Indian National Congress | 6,247[5] |
1954 | P. R. Madhavan Pillai | CPI | 5,778 |
1954 | K. S. Krishna Sastri | RSP | 5,566[6] |
The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:
Key
Election | Niyama
Sabha |
Member | Party | Tenure | |
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1957 | 1st | P. R. Madhavan Pillai | CPI | 1957–1960 | |
R. Govindan | |||||
1960 | 2nd | G. Chandrasekhara Pillai | INC | 1960–1965 | |
P. C. Adichan | CPI | ||||
1967 | 3rd | K. C. S. Sastri | INC | 1967–1970 | |
1970 | 4th | Sathyapalan | RSP | 1970–1977 | |
1977 | 5th | Kallada Narayanan | 1977–1980 | ||
1980 | 6th | 1980–1982 | |||
1982 | 7th | M. Kottarakuzhi Sukumaran | INC | 1982–1987 | |
1987 | 8th | T. Nanu | RSP | 1987–1991 | |
1991 | 9th | 1991–1996 | |||
1996 | 10th | 1996–2001 | |||
2001 | 11th | Kovoor Kunjumon | 2001–2006 | ||
2006 | 12th | 2006–2011 | |||
2011 | 13th | 2011–2016 | |||
2016 | 14th | RSP(L) | 2016 - 2021 | ||
2021 | 15th | Incumbent |
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
There were 2,08,541 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[7]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Kovoor Kunjumon | 75,725 | 47.38 | ||
RSP | Ullas Kovur | 55,196 | 34.54 | 15.43 | |
BDJS | Thazhava Sahadevan | 21,742 | 13.61 | ||
SDPI | Thulaseedharan Pallickal | 1,698 | 1.06 | 0.55 | |
Independent | Kunjumon | 1,516 | 0.95 | - | |
PDP | C. K. Gopi | 1,422 | 0.89 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 1,051 | 0.66 | ||
BSP | V. Remadevi | 740 | 0.46 | 0.34 | |
Independent | Manilal M. R. | 718 | 0.45 | ||
Margin of victory | 20,529 | 12.84 | |||
Turnout | 1,59,808 | 76.63 | 2.62 | ||
LDF hold | Swing |
There were 1,94,463 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[8]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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RSP | Kovoor Kunjumon | 71,923 | 49.97 | ||
INC | P. K. Ravi | 59,835 | 41.58 | ||
BJP | Raji Prasad | 5,949 | 4.13 | ||
SDPI | Thulaseedharan Pallickal | 2,310 | 1.61 | ||
Independent | Vallikunnam Prasad | 1,354 | 0.94 | - | |
BSP | Pulikuzhy Balachandran | 1,145 | 0.80 | ||
Independent | Shylaja P. | 611 | 0.42 | ||
Independent | Ravi | 525 | 0.36 | ||
Independent | V. Remadevi | 266 | 0.18 | ||
Margin of victory | 12,008 | 8.39 | |||
Turnout | 1,43,918 | 74.01 | |||
RSP hold | Swing |