| 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 | 2,02,165 (2021) |
| Reservation | SC |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 16th Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent Ullas Kovoor | |
| Party | Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) |
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]. This constituency included in Mavelikara Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2026 Assembly elections, the current MLA is Ulllas Kovoor of Revolutionary Socialist Party (India).
Local self-governed segments[edit | edit source]
Kunnathur Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:
| Sl no. | Name | Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality) | Taluk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sooranad North | Grama Panchayath | Kunnathur |
| 2 | Sooranad South | Grama panchayat | Kunnathur |
| 3 | Poruvazhy | Grama panchayat | Kunnathur |
| 4 | Sasthamcotta | Grama panchayat | Kunnathur |
| 5 | Mynagappally | Grama panchayat | Kunnathur |
| 6 | Kunnathur | Grama panchayat | Kunnathur |
| 7 | West Kallada | Grama panchayat | Kunnathur |
| 8 | East Kallada | Grama panchayat | Kollam |
| 9 | Munroethuruth | Grama panchayat | Kollam |
| 10 | Pavithreswaram | Grama panchayat | Kottarakkara |
Electoral history[edit | edit source]
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.[2]
Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly Elections[edit | edit source]
| Election | Name | Party | Vote Margin | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Aadichan | Indian National Congress | 5,316 | |
| 1951 | Madhavan Unnithan | 6,247[3] | ||
| 1954 | P. R. Madhavan Pillai | Communist Party of India | 5,778 | |
| 1954 | K. S. Krishna Sastri | Revolutionary Socialist Party | 5,566[4] | |
Members of the Legislative Assembly[edit | edit source]
The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented the constituency:
| Election | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | P. R. Madhavan Pillai | Communist Party of India | |
| R. Govindan | |||
| 1960 | G. Chandrasekhara Pillai | Indian National Congress | |
| P. C. Adichan | Communist Party of India | ||
| 1967 | K. C. S. Sastri | Indian National Congress | |
| 1970 | Sathyapalan | Revolutionary Socialist Party | |
| 1977 | Kallada Narayanan | ||
| 1980 | |||
| 1982 | M. Kottarakuzhi Sukumaran | Indian National Congress | |
| 1987 | T. Nanoo Master | Revolutionary Socialist Party | |
| 1991 | |||
| 1996 | |||
| 2001 | Kovoor Kunjumon | ||
| 2006 | |||
| 2011 | |||
| 2016 | Revolutionary Socialist Party | ||
| 2021 | |||
Election results[edit | edit source]
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
2026[edit | edit source]
There were x registered voters in the constituency for the 2026 Kerala Assembly election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RSP | Ullas Kovoor | 81,488 | 49.66 | 8.26
| |
| RSP(L) | Kovoor Kunjumon | 56,174 | 34.23 | 8.9 
| |
| BJP | Raji Prasad | 24,841 | 15.14 | 1.62
| |
| Indipendent | Manthara Velayudhan | 828 | |||
| Margin of victory | 25,314 | ||||
| Turnout | 1,64,101 | ||||
| Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) gain from Revolutionary Socialist Party (Leninist) | Swing | ||||
2021[edit | edit source]
There were 2,02,165 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RSP(L) | Kovoor Kunjumon | 69,436 | 43.13 | 4.26
| |
| RSP | Ullas Kovur | 66,646 | 41.40 | 6.86
| |
| BJP | Raji Prasad | 21,760 | 13.52 | ||
| BSP | R.S. Anju | 946 | 0.6 | ||
| Independent | Manthara Velayudhan | 623 | 0.4 | ||
| ADHRMPI | R. Sukumaran | 326 | 0.2 | ||
| Independent | Arunkumar S Uliyacovil | 325 | 0.2 | ||
| Margin of victory | 2,790 | 1.74 | 11.14
| ||
| Turnout | 1,60,062 | 78.1 | 1.44
| ||
| RSP(L) hold | Swing | ||||
2016[edit | edit source]
There were 2,08,502 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.[5]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RSP(L) | Kovoor Kunjumon | 75,725 | 47.39 | 2.61
| |
| RSP | Ullas Kovur | 55,196 | 34.54 | 7.06
| |
| BDJS | Thazhava Sahadevan | 21,742 | 13.61 | ||
| SDPI | Thulaseedharan Pallickal | 1,698 | 1.06 | 0.54
| |
| 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 | 4.44
| ||
| Turnout | 1,59,830 | 76.66 | 2.66
| ||
| Revolutionary Socialist Party (Leninist) gain from Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) | Swing | ||||
2011[edit | edit source]
There were 1,94,417 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[6]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RSP | Kovoor Kunjumon | 71,923 | 50.0 | 6.6
| |
| INC | P. K. Ravi | 59,835 | 41.6 | 4.6
| |
| BJP | Raji Prasad | 5,949 | 4.1 | − | |
| SDPI | Thulaseedharan Pallickal | 2,310 | 1.6 | ||
| Independent | Vallikunnam Prasad | 1,354 | 0.9 | − | |
| BSP | Pulikuzhy Balachandran | 1,145 | 0.8 | 1.6
| |
| Independent | Shylaja P. | 611 | 0.4 | ||
| Independent | Ravi | 525 | 0.4 | ||
| Independent | V. Remadevi | 266 | 0.2 | ||
| Margin of victory | 12,088 | 8.4 | 11.3
| ||
| Turnout | 1,43,918 | 74.0 | 3.1
| ||
| RSP hold | Swing | ||||
2006[edit | edit source]
There were 1,62,149 registered voters in the constituency for the 2006 election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RSP | Kovoor Kunjumon | 65,011 | 56.6 | 7.0
| |
| INC | P Ramabhadran | 42,438 | 37 | 9.8
| |
| BJP | Adv. M. Saraswathy | 4,652 | 4.1 | 0.4
| |
| BSP | P T Prasannakumar | 2,728 | 2.4 | ||
| Margin of victory | 22,573 | 19.7 | 16.9
| ||
| Turnout | 1,14,875 | 70.9% | 3.4
| ||
| RSP hold | Swing | ||||
2001[edit | edit source]
There were 1,65,183 registered voters in the constituency for the 2001 election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RSP | Kovoor Kunjumon | 60,827 | 49.6 | 3.0
| |
| INC | Pandalam Sudhakaran | 57,341 | 46.8 | 4.5
| |
| BJP | P T Bhaskaran | 4,489 | 3.7 | − | |
| Margin of victory | 3,486 | 2.8 | 1.4
| ||
| Turnout | 1,22,662 | 74.3% | 1.4
| ||
| RSP hold | Swing | ||||
1996[edit | edit source]
There were 1,55,586 registered voters in the constituency for the 1996 election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RSP | T Nanoo Master | 51,697 | 46.6 | 2.5
| |
| INC | Visalakshy | 46,934 | 42.3 | 4.5
| |
| PDP | T A Velayudhan | 7,231 | 6.5 | ||
| BJP | K Sadhanandan | 4,098 | 3.7 | 0.2
| |
| Independent | Sasikumar | 525 | 0.5 | ||
| Independent | Janardhanan | 228 | 0.2 | ||
| Samajwadi Jan Parishad | G Balakrishnan | 167 | 0.2 | ||
| Margin of victory | 4,763 | 4.2 | 1.9
| ||
| Turnout | 1,13,483 | 72.9% | 4.3
| ||
| RSP hold | Swing | ||||
1991[edit | edit source]
There were 1,49,077 registered voters in the constituency for the 1991 election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RSP | T Nanoo Master | 56,064 | 49.1 | 3.2
| |
| INC | V Sasidharan | 53,462 | 46.8 | 5.7
| |
| BJP | S Raghunath | 4,006 | 3.5 | 1.0
| |
| Independent | V Janardhanan | 694 | 0.6 | ||
| Margin of victory | 2,602 | 2.3 | 8.3
| ||
| Turnout | 1,15,018 | 77.2% | 6.4
| ||
| RSP hold | Swing | ||||
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "CONSTITUENCIES IN KERALA". Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
- ↑ Sudhish, Navamy (7 March 2021). "Kunnathur has mostly leaned towards the Left". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ↑ "Election to the Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly-1951 and to the Madras Assembly Constituencies in the Malabar Area". Government of Kerala. p. 37. Archived from the original on 21 October 2020. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
- ↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1954 to the Legislative Assembly of Travancore-Cochin" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 118. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
- ↑ "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.