Nemom Assembly constituency

Nemom State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala. It is also one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2021 Assembly elections, the current MLA is V. Sivankutty of CPI(M).

Nemom
Constituency No. 135 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Thiruvananthapuram
Established	1957
Total electors	2,04,240 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent V. Sivankutty
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Local self-governed segments

Nemom is composed of wards 37-39, 48-58 and 61-68 of the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation after the delimitation of the constituency in 2008.^[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented Nemom Assembly constituency during the period of various assemblies:^[3]

Election	Name	Political party
1957	M. Sadasivan		Communist Party of India
1960	P. Viswambharan		Praja Socialist Party
1967	M. Sadasivan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1970	G. Kuttapan		Praja Socialist Party
1977	S. Varadarajan Nair		Indian National Congress
1980	E. Ramesan Nair
1982	K. Karunakaran
1987	V. J. Thankappan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991
1996	P. Bhaskaran Venganoor
2001	N. Sakthan		Indian National Congress
2006
Major boundary changes
2011	V. Sivankutty		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2016	O. Rajagopal		Bharatiya Janata Party
2021	V. Sivankutty		Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Election results

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

2021

There were 2,04,240 registered voters in Nemom Assembly constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Nemom

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. Sivankutty	55,837	38.24	3.15
	BJP	Kummanam Rajasekharan	51,888	35.54	11.92
	INC	K. Muraleedharan	36,524	25.10	15.40
	NOTA	None of the above	756	0.53	0.09
Majority			3,949	2.76	3.31
Turnout			1,42,578	69.81	4.43
	CPI(M) gain from BJP		Swing

2016

There were 1,92,459 registered voters in Nemom Assembly constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Nemom

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	O. Rajagopal	67,813	47.46	9.97
	CPI(M)	V. Sivankutty	59,142	41.39	1.60
	JD(U)	V. Surendran Pillai[5]	13,860	9.70	7.68
	NOTA	None of the Above	884	0.62	N/A
Majority			8,671	6.07	0.57
Turnout			1,42,882	74.24	6.72
	BJP gain from CPI(M)		Swing	4.47

2011

This was the first election held after the 2008 delimitation. The boundaries of the constituency were changed, and it presently includes the parts of the previous Thiruvananthapuram East and Nemom Assembly constitutencies. There were 1,72,493 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[6]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Nemom

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. Sivankutty	50,076	42.99	1.20
	BJP	O. Rajagopal	43,661	37.49	31.90
	SJ(D)	Charupara Ravi	20,248	17.38	33.36
Majority			6,415	5.50	3.46
Turnout			1,16,474	67.52	0.65
	CPI(M) win (new seat)

2006

There were 1,79,417 registered voters in the constituency for the 2006 election.^[7]

2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Nemom

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	N. Sakthan	60,884	50.74
	CPI(M)	Venganoor P Bhaskaran	50,135	41.79
	BJP	Malayinkeezhu Radhakrishnan	6,705	5.59
Majority			10,749	8.96
Turnout			1,19,982	66.87
	INC hold		Swing

See also

• Nemom
• Thiruvananthapuram district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election