Kottarakkara Assembly constituency

Kottarakara or Kottarakkara is a legislative assembly constituency in Kollam district of Kerala, India. It is one among the 11 assembly constituencies in Kollam district. As of the 2016 assembly elections, the current MLA is K N Balagopal of CPI(M).^[1]

Kottarakkara
Constituency No. 119 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Pulamon Junction in Kottarakara town
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kollam
Established	1957
Total electors	2,00,586 (2016)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent K. N. Balagopal
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election

Structure

As per the recent changes on Assembly constituency delimitations, Kottarakara Assembly constituency consists of the municipality of Kottarakkara and seven neighbouring panchayaths including Ezhukone, Kareepra, Kulakkada, Mylom, Neduvathoor, Veliyam and Ummannoor.^[2][3]

• Municipalities: Kottarakara
• Panchayaths: Ezhukone, Kareepra, Kulakkada, Mylom, Neduvathoor, Ummannoor,Veliyam
• Neighbourhood towns: Thrikkannamangal, Kunnicode, Valakom, Odanavattam

Electoral history

Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly Elections

Year	Winner	Party	Vote Margin	Coalition
1951	Krishnan Nair	Socialist	3,526	NA[4]
1954	B. B. Pandarathil	RSP	6,586	LDF[5]

Members of Legislative Assembly

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

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1957	1st	E. Chandrasekharan Nair		CPI	1957–1960
1960	2nd	D. Damodaran Potti		PSP	1960–1965
1967	3rd	E. Chandrasekharan Nair		CPI	1967–1970
1970*		C. Achutha Menon			1970
1970	4th	Kottara Gopalakrishnan		INC	1970–1977
1977	5th	R. Balakrishna Pillai		KEC	1977–1980
1980	6th				1980–1982
1982	7th				1982–1987
1987	8th				1987–1991
1991	9th			INC	1991–1996
1996	10th			KC(B)	1996–2001
2001	11th				2001–2006
2006	12th	P. Aisha Potty		CPI(M)	2006–2011
2011	13th				2011–2016
2016	14th				2016-2021
2021	15th	K. N. Balagopal			Incumbent

*by-election

Election results

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

2021

There were 2,00,587 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.^[6]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kottarakkara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	K. N. Balagopal	68,770	45.98	9.46
	INC	R. Resmi	57,956	38.75	11.64
	BJP	Vayakkal Soman	21,223	14.19	1.80
	NOTA	None of the above	574	0.38
	Independent	Mathews K. Lukose	136	0.09	−
	Independent	Lal Viswan	103	0.07
Margin of victory			10,814	7.23	21.10
Turnout			1,49,552	74.56	0.48
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	9.46

2016

There were 2,00,527 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[7]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kottarakkara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	P. Aisha Potty	83,443	55.44	1.55
	INC	Savin Sathyan	40,811	27.11
	BJP	Rajeshwary Rajendran	24,062	15.99	11.36
	NOTA	None of the above	742	0.49
	Independent	Madhu B.	491	0.33	−
	BSP	R. Sukumaran	386	0.26	0.40
	SS	Veliyam Shaji	325	0.22
	Independent	Hariprasad	173	0.11
	Independent	Ajaykumar Thankappan	80	0.05
Margin of victory			42,632	28.33	13.35
Turnout			1,50,513	75.04	0.72
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	1.55

2011

There were 1,84,97 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[8]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kottarakkara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	P. Aisha Potty	74,069	53.89
	KC(B)	N. M. Murali	53,477	38.91
	BJP	Vayakkal Madhu	6,370	4.63
	Independent	Dhaneshlal Panavely	1,063	0.77
	BSP	P. T. Prasanna Kumar	911	0.66
	Independent	S. Solomon	773	0.56	−
	Independent	Prakash V.	454	0.33
	Independent	Prakash R.	320	0.23
Margin of victory			20,592	14.98
Turnout			1,37,437	74.32
	CPI(M) gain from KC(B)		Swing