Kunnathur, Kerala Assembly constituency

Kunnathur
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 Kovur
Party	RSP
Alliance	UDF

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 RSP.

Local self-governed segments

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

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

Election	Name		Vote Margin
1951	Aadichan	Indian National Congress	5,316
1951	Madhavan Unnithan	Indian National Congress	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

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

Election	Name
1957	P. R. Madhavan Pillai	Communist Party of India
1957	R. Govindan	Communist Party of India
1960	G. Chandrasekhara Pillai	Indian National Congress
1960	P. C. Adichan	Communist Party of India
1967	K. C. S. Sastri	Indian National Congress
1970	Sathyapalan	Revolutionary Socialist Party
1977	Kallada Narayanan
1980	Kallada Narayanan
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 (Leninist)
2021		Revolutionary Socialist Party (Leninist)
2026	Ullas Kovur	Revolutionary Socialist Party

Election results

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

2026

2026 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kunnathur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RSP	Ullas Kovur	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
	NOTA	None of the above	828	0.5
	Independent	Manthara Velayudhan	404	0.25	0.15
Margin of victory			25,314	15.43	13.69
Turnout			1,64,101
	RSP gain from RSP(L)		Swing

2021

There were 2,02,165 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Assembly election.

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kunnathur
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

There were 2,08,502 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[5]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kunnathur
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
	RSP(L) gain from RSP		Swing

2011

There were 1,94,417 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[6]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kunnathur
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

There were 1,62,149 registered voters in the constituency for the 2006 election.

2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kunnathur
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

There were 1,65,183 registered voters in the constituency for the 2001 election.

2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kunnathur
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

There were 1,55,586 registered voters in the constituency for the 1996 election.

1996 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kunnathur
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

There were 1,49,077 registered voters in the constituency for the 1991 election.

1991 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kunnathur
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

1987

There were 1,20,608 registered voters in the constituency for the 1987 election.

1987 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kunnathur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RSP	T. Nanu Master	52,447	52.3	5.11
	INC	K K Blakrishnan	41,794	41.67	−
	BJP	Raghunath s kallada	4,475	3.5	−
	Independent	Kodiyayyutharavil T Palpu	1,092	1.09
	Independent	K Balakrishnan	402	0.4
	Independent	A K Damodaran	76	0.08
Margin of victory			10,653	10.62	6.25
Turnout			1,00,811	83.59%	3.95
	RSP gain from Independent		Swing

1982

1980

There were 99,368 registered voters in the constituency for the 1980 election.

1980 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kunnathur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RSP	Kallada Narayanan	40,582	55.75	7.55
	JNP	Kottakuzhi Sukumaran	29,686	40.78
	Independent	Sasthamcotta ramechandran	1,919	2.64
	Independent	K S Chellappan	384	0.53
	Independent	R Kochukunju Bhavathar	221	0.3
Margin of victory			10,896	14.97	10.93
Turnout			73,170	73.64%	6.96
	RSP hold		Swing

1977

There were 87,416 registered voters in the constituency for the 1977 election.

1977 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kunnathur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	RSP	Kallada Narayanan	43,347	63.3
	CPI(M)	C K Thankappan	25,103	36.7
Margin of victory			18,244	25.9
Turnout			70,435	80.6%
	RSP hold		Swing

1970

There were 75,961 registered voters in the constituency for the 1970 election.

1970 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kunnathur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	RSP	Sathyapalan	29,008	52.27
	Independent	Onamplam Prabhakaran	17,528	31.58
	KEC	T Krishnan	6,203	11.18
	Independent	C K Kunju Kunju	1,833	3.3
	Independent	Chandran	495	0.89
	Independent	T K Kunju Kunju	428	0.77
Margin of victory			11,480	20.69
Turnout			55,989	73.71%
	RSP gain from INC		Swing

1967

1965

1960

1957

There were 1,08,583 registered voters in the constituency for the 1957 election.

1957 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kunnathur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI	Madhavan Pillai	41,569	24.49
	CPI	Govindan R	37,321	21.99
	INC	Velayudhan Nair K	29,389	17.32
	INC	C Achuthan	25,982	15.31
	RSP	Krishna Sasthri K S	11,698	6.89
	PSP	Gopalan Nair	10,542	6.21
	RSP	Philipose Muthalali N P	8,092	4.77
	PSP	Kochukunju	5,136	3.03
Margin of victory
Turnout			1,69,729	156.31%
	CPI win (new seat)

References

↑ "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.

[1] "CONSTITUENCIES IN KERALA". Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 12 February 2020.

[2] Sudhish, Navamy (7 March 2021). "Kunnathur has mostly leaned towards the Left". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 9 March 2021.

[3] "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.

[4] "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.

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

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

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