Ettumanoor Assembly constituency

Ettumanoor
Ettumanoor
Constituency No. 96 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Kumarakom
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kottayam
Established	1957 - present
Total electors	1,32,313 (2016)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent V. N. Vasavan
Party	CPI(M)
Alliance	LDF
Elected year	2021

Ettumanoor State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies at the state Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Kottayam Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] Incumbent Member of Legislative Assembly for Ettumanoor is V. N. Vasavan of CPI(M).

Local self governed segments

Ettumanoor Niyama Sabha constituency is composed of the following local self governed segments:^[2]

Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Ettumanoor	Municipality	Kottayam
2	Aymanam	Grama panchayat	Kottayam
3	Arpookara	Grama panchayat	Kottayam
4	Athirampuzha	Grama panchayat	Kottayam
5	Kumarakom	Grama panchayat	Kottayam
6	Neendoor	Grama panchayat	Kottayam
7	Thiruvarpu	Grama panchayat	Kottayam

The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member		Tenure
1957	1st	Joseph George	Indian National Congress	1957 – 1960
1960	2nd	Joseph George	Indian National Congress	1960 – 1965
1967	3rd	P. P. Wilson	Samyukta Socialist Party	1967 – 1970
1970	4th	P. B. R. Pillai	Socialist Party	1970 – 1977
1977	5th	P. B. R. Pillai	Bharatiya Lok Dal	1977 – 1980
1980	6th	Vaikom Vishwan	Communist Party of India	1980 – 1982
1982	7th	E. J. Lukose	Kerala Congress	1982 – 1987
1987	8th	Joseph George	Independent	1987 – 1991
1991	9th	Thomas Chazhikkadan	Kerala Congress	1991 – 1996
1996	10th			1996 – 2001
2001	11th			2001 – 2006
2006	12th			2006 – 2011
2011	13th	K. Suresh Kurup	Communist Party of India	2011 – 2016
2016	14th	K. Suresh Kurup		2016 - 2021
2021	15th	V. N. Vasavan^[3]		2021 - Incumbent

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

There were 1,68,266 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Ettumanoor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	V. N. Vasavan	58,289	46.2	5.53
	KEC	Adv. Prince Lukose	43,986	34.86%	0.92
	BJP	T N Harikumar	13,746	10.4	10.42
	Independent	Lathika Subhash	7,624	6.04%	−
	BSP	Jijith K Joy	1,165	0.92	0.58
Margin of victory			14,303	11.34	4.61
Turnout			1,26,949	75.45%	4.51
	CPI(M) hold		Swing

There were 1,65,464 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.^[4]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Ettumanoor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	K. Suresh Kurup	53,085	40.67	7.85
	KC(M)	Thomas Chazhikadan	44,906	33.94	13.06
	BDJS	A. G. Thankappan	27,540	20.82	−
	Independent	Josemon Mundackal	3,774	2.85	−
	SDPI	Abdul Nazar	706	0.53	−
	NOTA	None of the above	600	0.45	−
	BSP	C. P. Rajesh	453	0.34	0.31
	PDP	M. S. Noushad	338	0.26	−
	SUCI(C)	Asharaj	182	0.14	0.24
Margin of victory			8,899	6.73	5.21
Turnout			1,32,304	79.96	1.54
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	7.85

There were 1,50,807 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[5]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Ettumanoor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	K. Suresh Kurup	57,381	48.52
	KC(M)	Thomas Chazhikadan	55,580	47.00	−
	BJP	V. G. Gopakumar	3,385	2.86	−
	BSP	K .T. Thomas	763	0.65	−
	Independent	Justin Mathew	466	0.39	−
	SUCI(C)	E. V. Prakash	454	0.38	−
	Independent	Anish Kumar	228	0.19	−
Margin of victory			1,801	1.52
Turnout			1,18,257	78.42
	CPI(M) gain from KC(M)		Swing