Kottayam Assembly constituency

Kottayam State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Kottayam Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2016 Assembly elections, the current MLA is Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan of INC.

Kottayam
Constituency No. 97 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
CMS College Kottayam, the oldest existing college in India, established in 1815.
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kottayam
Established	1957
Total electors	128,625 (2016)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan
Party	INC
Alliance	UDF
Elected year	2021

Local self-governed segments

Kottayam Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:^[2]

Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Kottayam	Municipality	Kottayam
2	Panachikkad	Grama panchayat	Kottayam
3	Vijayapuram	Grama panchayat	Kottayam

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1957	1st	P. Bhaskaran Nair		Communist Party of India	1957–1960
1960	2nd	M. P. Govindan Nair		Indian National Congress	1960–1965
1967	3rd	M. K. George		Communist Party of India	1967–1970
1970	4th	M. Thomas			1970–1977
1977	5th	P. P. George		Communist Party of India	1977–1980
1980	6th	K. M. Abraham		Communist Party of India	1980–1982
1982	7th	N. Srinivasan		Socialist Republican Party	1982–1987
1987	8th	T. K. Ramakrishnan		Communist Party of India	1987–1991
1991	9th				1991–1996
1996	10th				1996–2001
2001	11th	Mercy Ravi		Indian National Congress	2001–2006
2006	12th	V. N. Vasavan		Communist Party of India	2006–2011
2011	13th	Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan		Indian National Congress	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

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kottayam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan	65,401	53.72
	CPI(M)	Adv K. Anilkumar	46658	38.33
	BJP	Minerva Mohan	8611	7.07
	NOTA	None of the above	473	0.39
	BSP	Sreekumar Chakkala	374	0.31
	SUCI(C)	M. K Shahazad	144	0.12
	ABHM	Arun Mangattu	77	0.06	−
Margin of victory			18743	15.27
Turnout
	INC hold		Swing

2016

There were 164,097 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[3]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kottayam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan	73,894	57.46	10.62
	CPI(M)	Reji Sakaria	40,262	31.31	14.92
	BJP	M. S. Karunakaran	12,582	9.78	5.04
	BSP	P. K. Geetha Krishnan	651	0.51	1.00
	NOTA	None of the above	483	0.38	−
	SP	Roy Chemmanam	403	0.31	−
	SUCI(C)	Rejitha Jayaram	182	0.14	0.10
	Independent	John Joy	88	0.07	−
	Independent	Payas C. P.	58	0.05	−
Margin of victory			33,632	26.15	25.54
Turnout			1,28,603	78.37	0.85
	INC hold		Swing	10.62

2011

There were 148,225 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[4]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kottayam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan	53,825	46.84
	CPI(M)	V. N. Vasavan	53,114	46.23	−
	BJP	Narayanan Namboothiri	5,449	4.74	−
	BSP	V. S. Shajan	1,737	1.51	−
	Independent	Rajeev Abraham	387	0.34	−
	SUCI(C)	N. K. Biju	276	0.24	−
	Independent	George P. Elias	113	0.10
Margin of victory			711	0.61
Turnout			1,14,901	77.52
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

See also

• Kottayam
• Kottayam district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election
• 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election