Kundara Assembly constituency

Kundara is a legislative assembly constituency in Kollam district of Kerala, India. It is one among the 11 assembly constituencies in Kollam district.^[1] As of the 2021 Assembly elections, the current MLA is P. C. Vishnunath of the INC.

Kundara
Constituency No. 123 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Kollam Technopark in Kundara
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kollam
Established	1967
Total electors	2,00,163 (2016)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent P. C. Vishnunath
Party	INC
Alliance	UDF
Elected year	2021

History

The constituency was previously named Perinad Assembly constituency. In 1957, it was dissolved and Thrikkadavoor Assembly constituency was established. During the election of 1960, Thrikkadavur was a two-member constituency.^[2] In 1967, Kundara Assembly constituency was formed by dissolving Thrikkadavur. After the general assembly election held in 1967, P. K. Sukumaran of CPI(M) became the first elected member from Kundara Assembly constituency.^[3][4]

Kadavoor Sivadasan and J. Mercykutty Amma were ministers in the state cabinet while representing the constituency.

Structure

As per the recent changes on Assembly constituency delimitations, Kundara Assembly constituency consists of seven panchayaths from Kollam taluk including Elampalloor, Kottamkara, Kundara, Nedumpana, Perayam, Perinad and Thrikkovilvattom.^[5][6]

In 2021, 47.8% of the voters were males and 52.2% females. The Scheduled Caste voters comprise 13.45% of the vote base.

Major institutions in the constituency

• Railway stations: 4 (Kundara, Kundara East, Perinad, Chandanattop)
• Medical college hospital: 1 (Azeezia Medical College, Meeyannoor)
• Government hospitals: 1 (Govt. Taluk Hospital, Kundara)
• Technopark, Kollam

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1967	3rd	Dr. P. K. Sukumaran		Communist Party of India	1967–1970
1970	4th	A. A. Rahim		Indian National Congress	1970–1977
1977	5th				1977–1980
1980	6th	V. V. Joseph		Communist Party of India	1980–1982
1982	7th	Thoppil Ravi		Indian National Congress	1982–1984
1987	8th	J. Mercykutty Amma		Communist Party of India	1987–1991
1991	9th	Alphonsa John		Indian National Congress	1991–1996
1996	10th	J. Mercykutty Amma		Communist Party of India	1996–2001
2001	11th	Kadavoor Sivadasan		Indian National Congress	2001–2006
2006	12th	M. A. Baby		Communist Party of India	2006–2011
2011	13th				2011–2016
2016	14th	J. Mercykutty Amma			2016 - 2021
2021	15th	P. C. Vishnunadh		Indian National Congress	Incumbent

Election results

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

2021

There were 2,05,947 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election.^[7]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kundara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	P C Vishnunadh	76,405	48.85	17.0
	CPI(M)	J. Mercykutty Amma	71,882	45.96	5.85
	BDJS	Vanaja Vidhyadharan	6,100	3.9	−
	RJD	Vinod Bahuleyan	172	0.11	−
	DSJP	Shiju M Varghese	186	0.12	−
	Anna DHRM	Sibu Karamcodu	229	0.15	−
	NOTA	None of the above	710	0.45
	Independent	Santhosh Adooran	260	0.17
	SUCI(C)	R. Rahul	457	0.29	0.08
Margin of victory			4,523	2.89	17.07
Turnout			1,56,401	75.94	0.28
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

2016

There were 2,00,163 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[8]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kundara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	J. Mercykutty Amma	79,047	51.81	0.67
	INC	Rajmohan Unnithan	48,587	31.85	9.07
	BJP	M. S. Shyam Kumar	20,257	13.28	8.60
	SDPI	Sharafath Mallam	1,325	0.87
	PDP	Kabeer Kutty I. Puthezham	1,132	0.74	−
	BSP	S. M. Jaber	698	0.46	0.18
	NOTA	None of the above	687	0.45
	Independent	Vijayakumar	485	0.32
	SUCI(C)	V. Anthony	340	0.22	0.21
Margin of victory			30,460	19.96	9.73
Turnout			1,52,558	76.22	4.75
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	0.67

2011

There were 1,78,990 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[9]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kundara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	M. A. Baby	67,135	52.48
	INC	P. Jermias	52,342	40.92
	BJP	Vellimon Dileep	5,990	4.68
	Independent	Sandhya Pallimon	957	0.75
	BSP	Suseela Mohan	947	0.74
	SUCI(C)	Anthony Vincent	553	0.43
Margin of victory			14,703	11.56
Turnout			1,27,924	71.47
	CPI(M) hold		Swing