Kunnathur (State Assembly constituency)
Template:Infobox Kerala Niyamasabha Constituency Kunnathur is the only Scheduled Caste reserved legislative assembly constituency in Kollam district of Kerala, India. It is one among the 11 assembly constituencies in the district.[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is Kovoor Kunjumon of RSP(L)
StructureEdit
As per the recent changes on assembly constituency delimitations, the Kunnathur assembly constituency consists of East Kallada, Munroe Island Kunnathur, Mynagappally, Poruvazhy, Sasthamcotta, Sooranad North, Sooranad South, West Kallada, Pavithreswaram Panchayats in Kollam district.[2][3]
Electoral historyEdit
The Kunnathur constituency was a two-member constituency till 1965. It was officially became an SC reserved constituency since Kerala State Assembly Election 1967.[4]
Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly ElectionsEdit
| Year | Winner | Party | Vote Margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Aadichan | Indian National Congress | 5,316 |
| 1951 | Madhavan Unnithan | Indian National Congress | 6,247[5] |
| 1954 | P. R. Madhavan Pillai | CPI | 5,778 |
| 1954 | K. S. Krishna Sastri | RSP | 5,566[6] |
Members of Legislative AssemblyEdit
The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:
Key
CPI INC Independent [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]]
| Election | Niyama
Sabha |
Member | Party | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 1st | P. R. Madhavan Pillai | CPI | 1957–1960 | |
| R. Govindan | |||||
| 1960 | 2nd | G. Chandrasekhara Pillai | INC | 1960–1965 | |
| P. C. Adichan | CPI | ||||
| 1967 | 3rd | K. C. S. Sastri | INC | 1967–1970 | |
| 1970 | 4th | Sathyapalan | RSP | 1970–1977 | |
| 1977 | 5th | Kallada Narayanan | 1977–1980 | ||
| 1980 | 6th | 1980–1982 | |||
| 1982 | 7th | M. Kottarakuzhi Sukumaran | INC | 1982–1987 | |
| 1987 | 8th | T. Nanu | RSP | 1987–1991 | |
| 1991 | 9th | 1991–1996 | |||
| 1996 | 10th | 1996–2001 | |||
| 2001 | 11th | Kovoor Kunjumon | 2001–2006 | ||
| 2006 | 12th | 2006–2011 | |||
| 2011 | 13th | 2011–2016 | |||
| 2016 | 14th | RSP(L) | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| 2021 | 15th | Incumbent | |||
Election resultsEdit
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
Niyamasabha Election 2016Edit
There were 2,08,541 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[7]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Kovoor Kunjumon | 75,725 | 47.38 | ||
| [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]] | Ullas Kovur | 55,196 | 34.54 |  15.43
| |
| [[Bharath Dharma Jana Sena|Template:Bharath Dharma Jana Sena/meta/shortname]] | Thazhava Sahadevan | 21,742 | 13.61 | ||
| SDPI | Thulaseedharan Pallickal | 1,698 | 1.06 | 0.55
| |
| Independent | Kunjumon | 1,516 | 0.95 | - | |
| style="background-color: Template:Peoples Democratic Party (India)/meta/color; width: 5px;" | | [[Peoples Democratic Party (India)|Template:Peoples Democratic Party (India)/meta/shortname]] | 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 | |||
| Turnout | 1,59,808 | 76.63 |  2.62
| ||
| [[Left Democratic Front (Kerala)|Template:Left Democratic Front (Kerala)/meta/shortname]] hold | Swing | ||||
Niyamasabha Election 2011Edit
There were 1,94,463 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[8]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]] | Kovoor Kunjumon | 71,923 | 49.97 | ||
| INC | P. K. Ravi | 59,835 | 41.58 | ||
| BJP | Raji Prasad | 5,949 | 4.13 | ||
| SDPI | Thulaseedharan Pallickal | 2,310 | 1.61 | ||
| Independent | Vallikunnam Prasad | 1,354 | 0.94 | - | |
| BSP | Pulikuzhy Balachandran | 1,145 | 0.80 | ||
| Independent | Shylaja P. | 611 | 0.42 | ||
| Independent | Ravi | 525 | 0.36 | ||
| Independent | V. Remadevi | 266 | 0.18 | ||
| Margin of victory | 12,008 | 8.39 | |||
| Turnout | 1,43,918 | 74.01 | |||
| [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Template:Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)/meta/shortname]] hold | Swing | ||||
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "CONSTITUENCIES IN KERALA". Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
- ↑ "ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES AND THEIR EXTENT – Kerala" (PDF). Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
- ↑ "Constituencies – Kollam District". Chief Electoral Officer – Kerala. 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. 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.