Kunnathur, Kerala Assembly constituency

Kunnathur is the only legislative assembly constituency reserved for the Scheduled Castes in Kollam district of Kerala, India. It is one of the 11 assembly constituencies in the district.^[1] As of the 2021 Assembly elections, the current MLA is Kovoor Kunjumon of RSP(L).

Kunnathur
Constituency No. 118 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Sasthamcotta Lake in Kunnathur Assembly constituency
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 Kovoor Kunjumon
Party	RSP(L)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Structure

As per the recent changes on Assembly constituency delimitations, Kunnathur Assembly constituency consists of East Kallada, Munroe Island, Kunnathur, Mynagappally, Poruvazhy, Sasthamcotta, Sooranad North, Sooranad South, West Kallada and Pavithreswaram panchayats in Kollam district.^[2][3]

Electoral history

Kunnathur Assembly constituency was a two-member constituency until 1965. It officially became an constituency reserved for the Scheduled Castes in the 1967 Kerala State Assembly election.^[4]

Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly Elections

Election	Name	Party		Vote Margin
1951	Aadichan		Indian National Congress	5,316
1951	Madhavan Unnithan			6,247[5]
1954	P. R. Madhavan Pillai		Communist Party of India	5,778
1954	K. S. Krishna Sastri		Revolutionary Socialist Party	5,566[6]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Election	Niyama Sabha	Name	Party		Tenure
1957	1st	P. R. Madhavan Pillai		Communist Party of India	1957–1960
		R. Govindan
1960	2nd	G. Chandrasekhara Pillai		Indian National Congress	1960–1965
		P. C. Adichan		Communist Party of India
1967	3rd	K. C. S. Sastri		Indian National Congress	1967–1970
1970	4th	Sathyapalan		Revolutionary Socialist Party	1970–1977
1977	5th	Kallada Narayanan			1977–1980
1980	6th				1980–1982
1982	7th	M. Kottarakuzhi Sukumaran		Indian National Congress	1982–1987
1987	8th	T. Nanu		Revolutionary Socialist Party	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			Independent	2016 - 2021
2021	15th				Incumbent

Election results

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

2016

There were 2,08,541 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[7]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kunnathur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RSP(L)	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

2011

There were 1,94,463 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[8]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kunnathur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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