Kundara Assembly constituency

Kundara is a legislative assembly constituency in Kollam district of Kerala, India. It is one among the 11 assembly constituencies in Kollam district.^[1] As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is P. C. Vishnunath of INC.

History

The constituency was previously named as Perinad Assembly Constituency. In 1957, it was dissolved and formed Thrikkadavoor constituency. During the election of 1960, Thrikkadavur was a two-member constituency.^[2] Later in 1967, Kundara constituency was formed by dissolving Thrikkadavur. After the general assembly election held in 1967, P. K. Sukumaran of CPI(M) became the first elected member from Kundara assembly constituency.^[3][4]

Kadavoor Sivadasan and J. Mercykutty Amma were ministers in the state cabinet while representing the constituency.

Structure

As per the recent changes on assembly constituency delimitations, Kundara assembly constituency consists of 7 panchayaths from Kollam Taluk including Elampalloor, Kottamkara, Kundara, Nedumpana, Perayam, Perinad and Thrikkovilvattom.^[5][6]

In 2021, 47.8% of the voters were males and 52.2% females. The Scheduled Caste voters comprise 13.45% of the vote base.

Major institutions in the constituency

• Railway stations: 4 (Kundara, Kundara East, Perinad, Chandanattop)
• Medical college hospital: 1 (Azeezia Medical College, Meeyannoor)
• Government hospitals: 1 (Govt. Taluk Hospital, Kundara)
• Technopark, Kollam

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

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

Niyamasabha Election 2021

There were 2,05,947 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election.^[7]

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kundara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	P C Vishnunadh	76,405	48.85	17.0
	CPI(M)	J. Mercykutty Amma	71,882	45.96	5.85
	BDJS	Vanaja Vidhyadharan	6,100	3.9	-
	RJD	Vinod Bahuleyan	172	0.11	-
	DSJP	Shiju M Varghese	186	0.12	-
	Anna DHRM	Sibu Karamcodu	229	0.15	-
	NOTA	None of the above	710	0.45
	Independent	Santhosh Adooran	260	0.17
	SUCI(C)	R. Rahul	457	0.29	0.08
Margin of victory			4,523	2.89	17.07
Turnout			1,56,401	75.94	0.28
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 2,00,163 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.^[8]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kundara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	J. Mercykutty Amma	79,047	51.81	0.67
	INC	Rajmohan Unnithan	48,587	31.85	9.07
	BJP	M. S. Shyam Kumar	20,257	13.28	8.60
	SDPI	Sharafath Mallam	1,325	0.87
	PDP	Kabeer Kutty I. Puthezham	1,132	0.74	-
	BSP	S. M. Jaber	698	0.46	0.18
	NOTA	None of the above	687	0.45
	Independent	Vijayakumar	485	0.32
	SUCI(C)	V. Anthony	340	0.22	0.21
Margin of victory			30,460	19.96	9.73
Turnout			1,52,558	76.22	4.75
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	0.67

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,78,990 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[9]

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