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Kundara
Kundara
Indian electoral constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
District	Kollam
Party	INC

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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 INC.

History[edit | edit source]

The constituency was previously named as Perinad Assembly Constituency. In 1957, it was dissolved and formed Thrikkadavoor constituency. During the election of 1960, Thrikkadavur was a two-member constituency.^[2] Later in 1967, Kundara 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]

Structure[edit | edit source]

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

Major institutions in the constituency[edit | edit source]

Panchayaths: 5 (Elampalloor, Kottamkara, Nedumpana, Perayam, Perinad, Kundara)
Railway stations: 3 (Kundara, Kundara East, Perinad)
Medical college hospital: 1 (Azeezia Medical College, Meeyannoor)
Government hospitals: 1 (Govt. Taluk Hospital, Kundara)

Members of Legislative Assembly[edit | edit source]

The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:

Key

INC CPI (M)

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

Election results[edit | edit source]

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

Niyamasabha Election 2016[edit | edit source]

There were 2,00,163 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.^[7]

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

Niyamasabha Election 2011[edit | edit source]

There were 1,78,990 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[8]

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

References[edit | edit source]

↑ "CONSTITUENCIES IN KERALA". Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
↑ "Interim Elections to the Kerala Assembly – 1960". Government of Kerala. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
↑ "Kerala Assembly Election – 1967". Elections.in. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
↑ "CONSTITUENCIES IN KERALA". Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
↑ "ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES AND THEIR EXTENT – Kerala" (PDF). Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
↑ "Constituencies – Kollam District". Chief Electoral Officer – Kerala. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
↑ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.
↑ "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.

[1] "CONSTITUENCIES IN KERALA". Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 10 December 2018.

[2] "Interim Elections to the Kerala Assembly – 1960". Government of Kerala. Retrieved 10 December 2018.

[3] "Kerala Assembly Election – 1967". Elections.in. Retrieved 10 December 2018.

[4] "CONSTITUENCIES IN KERALA". Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 10 December 2018.

[5] "ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES AND THEIR EXTENT – Kerala" (PDF). Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 10 December 2018.

[6] "Constituencies – Kollam District". Chief Electoral Officer – Kerala. Retrieved 10 December 2018.

[7] "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in.

[8] "Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India". eci.gov.in. Retrieved 11 March 2020.

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 == Election results ==
 Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
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-  |votes      = 76,405
-  |percentage = 48.85
-  |change     = {{gain}}17.00
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-  |party      = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
-  |candidate  = J.Mercykutty Amma
-  |votes      = 66,882
-  |percentage = 45.96
-  |change     ={{loss}}9.85
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-{{Election box candidate with party link
-  |party      = Bharath Dharma Jana Sena
-  |candidate  = Vanaja Vidyadharan
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-  |percentage = 3.9
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-   |percentage = 73.96
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