Adoor Assembly constituency
| Adoor | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 115 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
 Adoor Central Junction | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | South India |
| State | Kerala |
| District | Pathanamthitta |
| Established | 1965 |
| Total electors | 208,099 (2021)[1] |
| Reservation | SC |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 15th Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | CPI |
| Alliance | LDF |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Adoor State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies representing Adoor in Pathanamthitta district of Kerala in India. It is also one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency.[2] The current MLA is Chittayam Gopakumar of CPI.
Local self-governed segments
[edit | edit source]Adoor Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:[3]
| Name | Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality) | Taluk |
|---|---|---|
| Adoor | Municipality | Adoor |
| Pandalam | Municipality | Adoor |
| Pandalam Thekkekara | Grama panchayat | Adoor |
| Kodumon | Grama panchayat | Adoor |
| Ezhamkulam | Grama panchayat | Adoor |
| Erathu | Grama panchayat | Adoor |
| Pallickal | Grama panchayat | Adoor |
| Kadampanad | Grama panchayat | Adoor |
| Thumpamon | Grama panchayat | Adoor |
Members of the Legislative Assembly
[edit | edit source]The following list contains all members of the Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented the constituency:
Key
| Election | Niyama
Sabha |
Member | Party | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 3rd | P. Ramalingom | Communist Party of India | 1967 – 1970 | |
| 1970 | 4th | Thengamam Balakrishnan | 1970 – 1977 | ||
| 1977 | 5th | Thennala Balakrishna Pillai | Indian National Congress | 1977 – 1980 | |
| 1980 | 6th | C. P. Karunakaran Pillai | Communist Party of India | 1980 – 1982 | |
| 1982 | 7th | Thennala Balakrishna Pillai | Indian National Congress | 1982 – 1987 | |
| 1987 | 8th | R. Unnikrishnan Pillai | Communist Party of India | 1987 – 1991 | |
| 1991 | 9th | Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan | Indian National Congress | 1991 – 1996 | |
| 1996 | 10th | 1996 – 2001 | |||
| 2001 | 11th | 2001 – 2006 | |||
| 2006 | 12th | 2006 – 2011 | |||
| 2011 | 13th | Chittayam Gopakumar | Communist Party of India | 2011 – 2016 | |
| 2016 | 14th | 2016 - 2021 | |||
| 2021 | 15th | Incumbent | |||
Election results
[edit | edit source]Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election.
2021
[edit | edit source]There were 2,08,099 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[1]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI | Chittayam Gopakumar | 66,569 | 42.83% |  6.22
| |
| INC | M. G. Kannan | 63,650 | 40.96% | Error creating thumbnail: 8.34 | |
| BJP | Adv. Pandalam Prathapan | 23,980 | 15.43% | 1.30
| |
| NOTA | None of the above | 594 | 0.38% | 0.05
| |
| Independent | R. Kannan S/o Rajan | 218 | 0.14% | N/A | |
| BSP | Vipin Kanikonathu | 178 | 0.11% | 0.15
| |
| SUCI(C) | Saranya Raj | 127 | 0.08% | N/A | |
| Anna DHRM | Rajan Kulakkada | 95 | 0.06% | N/A | |
| Margin of victory | 2,919 | 1.87% | 14.56
| ||
| Turnout | 1,55,411[4][1] | 74.68%[1] | Error creating thumbnail: 0.31 | ||
| CPI hold | Swing | 6.22
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2016
[edit | edit source]There were 2,08,432 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.[5]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI | Chittayam Gopakumar | 76,034 | 49.05 | Error creating thumbnail: 2.03 | |
| INC | K. K. Shaju | 50,574 | 32.62 | 13.95
| |
| BJP | P. Sudheer | 25,940 | 16.73 | Error creating thumbnail: 12.13 | |
| SDPI | Jyothish Perumpulickal | 673 | 0.43 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 672 | 0.43 | − | |
| BSP | Plavinal Santhosh | 410 | 0.26 | 0.12
| |
| Independent | Ajitha P. | 408 | 0.26 | ||
| PDP | Vishnu Raj T. | 307 | 0.20 | ||
| Margin of victory | 25,460 | 16.43 | Error creating thumbnail: 15.98 | ||
| Turnout | 1,55,018 | 74.37 | Error creating thumbnail: 4.76 | ||
| CPI hold | Swing | Error creating thumbnail: 2.03 | |||
2011
[edit | edit source]There were 1,94,014 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[6]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI | Chittayam Gopakumar | 63,501 | 47.02 | ||
| INC | Pandalam Sudhakaran | 62,894 | 46.57 | ||
| BJP | K. K. Sasi | 6,210 | 4.60 | − | |
| Independent | Olikkulangara Surendran | 994 | 0.74 | ||
| BSP | Kodumon Ramachandran | 519 | 0.38 | − | |
| Independent | Piravanthoor Sreedharan | 462 | 0.34 | ||
| Independent | Remanan | 315 | 0.23 | ||
| Independent | Anil K. | 162 | 0.12 | ||
| Margin of victory | 607 | 0.45 | |||
| Turnout | 1,35,057 | 69.61 | |||
| CPI gain from INC | Swing | ||||
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