Ettumanoor Assembly constituency

Ettumanoor
Ettumanoor
Constituency No. 96 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Famous Ettumanoor mahadeva temple
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
Established	1957
Total electors	1,32,313 (2016)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	16th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Nattakom Suresh
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2026

Ettumanoor State assembly constituency 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 Kottayam Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] The incumbent Member of Legislative Assembly for Ettumanoor is Nattakom Suresh of Indian National Congress.

Local self-governed segments[edit | edit source]

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

Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Ettumanoor	Municipality	Kottayam
2	Aymanam	Grama panchayat	Kottayam
3	Arpookara	Grama panchayat	Kottayam
4	Athirampuzha	Grama panchayat	Kottayam
5	Kumarakom	Grama panchayat	Kottayam
6	Neendoor	Grama panchayat	Kottayam
7	Thiruvarpu	Grama panchayat	Kottayam

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

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

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1957	1st	Joseph George		Indian National Congress	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd	Joseph George	1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	P. P. Wilson		Samyukta Socialist Party	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	P. B. R. Pillai		Socialist Party	1970 – 1977
1977	5th	P. B. R. Pillai		Janata Party	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	Vaikom Vishwan		Communist Party of India	1980 – 1982
1982	7th	E. J. Lukose		Kerala Congress	1982 – 1987
1987	8th	Joseph George		Independent	1987 – 1991
1991	9th	Thomas Chazhikkadan		Kerala Congress	1991 – 1996
1996	10th		1996 – 2001
2001	11th		2001 – 2006
2006	12th		2006 – 2011
2011	13th	K. Suresh Kurup		Communist Party of India	2011 – 2016
2016	14th	K. Suresh Kurup	2016 - 2021
2021	15th	V. N. Vasavan^[3]	2021 - 2026
2026	16^th	Nattakom Suresh		Indian National Congress	2026 – Incumbent

There were 1,68,266 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Ettumanoor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. N. Vasavan	58,289	46.2	5.53
	KEC	Adv. Prince Lukose	43,986	34.86%	0.92
	BJP	T. N. Harikumar	13,746	10.4	10.42
	Independent	Lathika Subhash	7,624	Template:New6.04%	−
	BSP	Jijith K Joy	1,165	0.92	0.58
Margin of victory			14,303	11.34	4.61
Turnout			1,26,949	75.45%	4.51
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

There were 1,65,464 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Ettumanoor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	K. Suresh Kurup	53,085	40.67	7.85
	KC(M)	Thomas Chazhikadan	44,906	33.94	13.06
	BDJS	A. G. Thankappan	27,540	20.82	−
	Independent	Josemon Mundackal	3,774	2.85	−
	SDPI	Abdul Nazar	706	0.53	−
	NOTA	None of the above	600	0.45	−
	BSP	C. P. Rajesh	453	0.34	0.31
	PDP	M. S. Noushad	338	0.26	−
	SUCI(C)	Asharaj	182	0.14	0.24
Margin of victory			8,899	6.73	5.21
Turnout			1,32,304	79.96	1.54
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	7.85

There were 1,50,807 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[5]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Ettumanoor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	K. Suresh Kurup	57,381	48.52
	KC(M)	Thomas Chazhikadan	55,580	47.00	−
	BJP	V. G. Gopakumar	3,385	2.86	−
	BSP	K .T. Thomas	763	0.65	−
	Independent	Justin Mathew	466	0.39	−
	SUCI(C)	E. V. Prakash	454	0.38	−
	Independent	Anish Kumar	228	0.19	−
Margin of victory			1,801	1.52
Turnout			1,18,257	78.42
	CPI (M) gain from Kerala Congress (M)		Swing