Pathanapuram Assembly constituency

Pathanapuram 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 Mavelikara Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2016 Assembly elections, the current MLA is K. B. Ganesh Kumar of KC(B).

Pathanapuram
Constituency No. 120 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
College of Engineering, Pathanapuram
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kollam
Established	1957
Total electors	1,84,282 (2021)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent K. B. Ganesh Kumar
Party	KC(B)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Local self-governed segments

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

Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Pathanapuram	Grama panchayat	Pathanapuram[3]
2	Pattazhy	Grama panchayat	Pathanapuram
3	Pattazhy Vadakkekara	Grama panchayat	Pathanapuram
4	Piravanthoor	Grama panchayat	Pathanapuram
5	Thalavoor	Grama panchayat	Pathanapuram
6	Vilakkudy	Grama panchayat	Pathanapuram
7	Melila	Grama panchayat	Kottarakkara
8	Vettikkavala	Grama panchayat	Kottarakkara

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented Pathanapuram Assembly constituency during the period of various assemblies:^[4]

Key

  KC(B)   CPI   INC   KEC

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1957	1st	N. Rajagopalan Nair		Communist Party of India	1957–1960
1960	2nd	R. Balakrishna Pillai		Indian National Congress	1960–1965
1967	3rd	P. K. Raghavan	CPI		1967–1970
1970	4th				1970–1977
1977	5th	E. K. Pillai			1977–1980
1980	6th				1980–1982
1982	7th	A. George		Kerala Congress	1982–1987
1987	8th	E. Chandrasekharan Nair	CPI		1987–1991
1991	9th	K. Prakash Babu			1991–1996
1996	10th				1996–2001
2001	11th	K. B. Ganesh Kumar	KC(B)		2001–2006
2006	12th				2006–2011
2011	13th				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.

2016

There were 1,89,837 registered voters in Pathanapuram Assembly constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[5]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Pathanapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KC(B)	K. B. Ganesh Kumar	74,429	52.39%	3.25
	INC	P. V. Jagadish Kumar	49,867	35.10%
	BJP	Raghu Damodharan	11,700	8.24%	3.03
	SDPI	Faizy M. Pasha	3,843	2.71%
	BSP	Perinadu Gopalakrishnan	846	0.60%	0.07
	NOTA	None of the above	454	0.32%
	Independent	Rekhu P.	366	0.26%
	SS	Sudheer M. G.	254	0.18%
	Independent	Chandrasekhara Pillai M. G.	194	0.14%
	Independent	Madhu R.	105	0.07%
Margin of victory			24,562	17.29%	−
Turnout			1,42,058	74.83%	0.61
	KC(B) hold		Swing	3.25

2011

There were 1,72,946 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[6]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Pathanapuram

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	KC(B)	K. B. Ganesh Kumar	71,421	55.64%
	CPI(M)	K. Rajagopal	51,019	39.74%
	BJP	R. Subhash Pattazhy	2,839	2.21%
	Independent	Aneesh Anthony	1,613	1.26%
	BSP	Punalur Salim	864	0.67%
	Independent	N. Sunilkumar	611	0.48%
Margin of victory			20,402	17.29%
Turnout			1,28,367	74.22%
	KC(B) hold		Swing

See also

• Pathanapuram
• Kollam district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election