Adoor Assembly constituency

Adoor State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies representing Adoor in Pathanamthitta district of Kerala in India. It is also one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency.^[2] The current MLA is Chittayam Gopakumar of CPI.

Adoor
Constituency No. 115 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Adoor Central Junction
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Pathanamthitta
Established	1965
Total electors	208,099 (2021)[1]
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Chittayam Gopakumar
Party	CPI
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Local self-governed segments

Adoor Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:^[3]

Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
Adoor	Municipality	Adoor
Pandalam	Municipality	Adoor
Pandalam Thekkekara	Grama panchayat	Adoor
Kodumon	Grama panchayat	Adoor
Ezhamkulam	Grama panchayat	Adoor
Erathu	Grama panchayat	Adoor
Pallickal	Grama panchayat	Adoor
Kadampanad	Grama panchayat	Adoor
Thumpamon	Grama panchayat	Adoor

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of the Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented the constituency:

Key

  CPI  INC  CPI(M)

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1967	3rd	P. Ramalingom		Communist Party of India	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	Thengamam Balakrishnan			1970 – 1977
1977	5th	Thennala Balakrishna Pillai		Indian National Congress	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	C. P. Karunakaran Pillai		Communist Party of India	1980 – 1982
1982	7th	Thennala Balakrishna Pillai		Indian National Congress	1982 – 1987
1987	8th	R. Unnikrishnan Pillai		Communist Party of India	1987 – 1991
1991	9th	Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan		Indian National Congress	1991 – 1996
1996	10th				1996 – 2001
2001	11th				2001 – 2006
2006	12th				2006 – 2011
2011	13th	Chittayam Gopakumar		Communist Party of India	2011 – 2016
2016	14th				2016 - 2021
2021	15th				Incumbent

Election results

Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.

2021

There were 2,08,099 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.^[1]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Adoor^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Chittayam Gopakumar	66,569	42.83%	6.22
	INC	M. G. Kannan	63,650	40.96%	8.34
	BJP	Adv. Pandalam Prathapan	23,980	15.43%	1.30
	NOTA	None of the above	594	0.38%	0.05
	Independent	R. Kannan S/o Rajan	218	0.14%	N/A
	BSP	Vipin Kanikonathu	178	0.11%	0.15
	SUCI(C)	Saranya Raj	127	0.08%	N/A
	Anna DHRM	Rajan Kulakkada	95	0.06%	N/A
Margin of victory			2,919	1.87%	14.56
Turnout			1,55,411[4][1]	74.68%[1]	0.31
	CPI hold		Swing	6.22

2016

There were 2,08,432 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.^[5]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Adoor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Chittayam Gopakumar	76,034	49.05	2.03
	INC	K. K. Shaju	50,574	32.62	13.95
	BJP	P. Sudheer	25,940	16.73	12.13
	SDPI	Jyothish Perumpulickal	673	0.43
	NOTA	None of the above	672	0.43	−
	BSP	Plavinal Santhosh	410	0.26	0.12
	Independent	Ajitha P.	408	0.26
	PDP	Vishnu Raj T.	307	0.20
Margin of victory			25,460	16.43	15.98
Turnout			1,55,018	74.37	4.76
	CPI hold		Swing	2.03

2011

There were 1,94,014 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[6]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Adoor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Chittayam Gopakumar	63,501	47.02
	INC	Pandalam Sudhakaran	62,894	46.57
	BJP	K. K. Sasi	6,210	4.60	−
	Independent	Olikkulangara Surendran	994	0.74
	BSP	Kodumon Ramachandran	519	0.38	−
	Independent	Piravanthoor Sreedharan	462	0.34
	Independent	Remanan	315	0.23
	Independent	Anil K.	162	0.12
Margin of victory			607	0.45
Turnout			1,35,057	69.61
	CPI gain from INC		Swing