| Kunnathur | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 118 for theKerala Legislative Assembly | |
 Sasthamcotta Lake in Kunnathur Assembly constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | South India |
| State | Kerala |
| District | Kollam |
| Established | 1957 |
| Total electors | 2,08,541 (2021) |
| Reservation | SC |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 15th Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | RSP(L) |
| Alliance | LDF |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Kunnathur is the onlylegislative assembly constituency reserved for theScheduled Castes inKollam district ofKerala,India. It is one of the 11 assembly constituencies in the district.[1] As of the2021 Assembly elections, the current MLA isKovoor Kunjumon of RSP(L).
As per the recent changes on Assembly constituency delimitations, Kunnathur Assembly constituency consists ofEast Kallada,Munroe Island,Kunnathur,Mynagappally,Poruvazhy,Sasthamcotta,Sooranad North,Sooranad South,West Kallada andPavithreswaram panchayats inKollam district.[2][3]
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.[4]
| Election | Name | Party | Vote Margin | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Aadichan | Indian National Congress | 5,316 | |
| 1951 | Madhavan Unnithan | 6,247[5] | ||
| 1954 | P. R. Madhavan Pillai | Communist Party of India | 5,778 | |
| 1954 | K. S. Krishna Sastri | Revolutionary Socialist Party | 5,566[6] | |
The following list contains all members ofKerala Legislative Assembly who have represented the constituency:
| Election | Niyama Sabha | Name | Party | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 1st | P. R. Madhavan Pillai | Communist Party of India | 1957–1960 | |
| R. Govindan | |||||
| 1960 | 2nd | G. Chandrasekhara Pillai | Indian National Congress | 1960–1965 | |
| P. C. Adichan | Communist Party of India | ||||
| 1967 | 3rd | K. C. S. Sastri | Indian National Congress | 1967–1970 | |
| 1970 | 4th | Sathyapalan | Revolutionary Socialist Party | 1970–1977 | |
| 1977 | 5th | Kallada Narayanan | 1977–1980 | ||
| 1980 | 6th | 1980–1982 | |||
| 1982 | 7th | M. Kottarakuzhi Sukumaran | Indian National Congress | 1982–1987 | |
| 1987 | 8th | T. Nanu | Revolutionary Socialist Party | 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 | |||
Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDF | |||||
| UDF | |||||
| NDA | |||||
| NOTA | None of the above | ||||
| Margin of victory | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Swing | |||||
There were 2,08,541 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.[7]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RSP(L) | Kovoor Kunjumon | 75,725 | 47.38 | ||
| RSP | Ullas Kovur | 55,196 | 34.54 |  15.43 | |
| BDJS | Thazhava Sahadevan | 21,742 | 13.61 | ||
| SDPI | Thulaseedharan Pallickal | 1,698 | 1.06 | 0.55 | |
| 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 | |||
| Turnout | 1,59,808 | 76.63 |  2.62 | ||
| LDFhold | Swing | ||||
There were 1,94,463 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[8]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RSP | 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 | |||
| RSPhold | Swing | ||||