Kottayam Assembly constituency

Kottayam
Kottayam
Constituency No. 97 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
	CMS College Kottayam, the oldest existing college in India, established in 1815.
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kottayam
Established	1957–present
Total electors	128,625 (2016)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	15th Kerala Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan
Party	INC
Alliance	UDF
Elected year	2019Kerala Legislative Assembly election

Kottayam 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] As of the 2016 assembly elections, the current MLA is Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan of INC.

Local self-governed segments

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

Sl no.	Name	Status (Grama panchayat/Municipality)	Taluk
1	Kottayam	Municipality	Kottayam
2	Panachikkad	Grama panchayat	Kottayam
3	Vijayapuram	Grama panchayat	Kottayam

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member		Tenure
1957	1st	P. Bhaskaran Nair	Communist Party of India	1957–1960
1960	2nd	M. P. Govindan Nair	Indian National Congress	1960–1965
1967	3rd	M. K. George	Communist Party of India	1967–1970
1970	4th	M. Thomas	Communist Party of India	1970–1977
1977	5th	P. P. George	Communist Party of India	1977–1980
1980	6th	K. M. Abraham	Communist Party of India	1980–1982
1982	7th	N. Srinivasan	Socialist Republican Party	1982–1987
1987	8th	T. K. Ramakrishnan	Communist Party of India	1987–1991
1991	9th			1991–1996
1996	10th			1996–2001
2001	11th	Mercy Ravi	Indian National Congress	2001–2006
2006	12th	V. N. Vasavan	Communist Party of India	2006–2011
2011	13th	Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan	Indian National Congress	2011–2016
2016	14th			2016–2021
2021	15th			Incumbent

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

There were 164,097 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.^[3]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Kottayam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan	73,894	57.46	10.62
	CPI(M)	Reji Sakaria	40,262	31.31	14.92
	BJP	M. S. Karunakaran	12,582	9.78	5.04
	BSP	P. K. Geetha Krishnan	651	0.51	1.00
	NOTA	None of the above	483	0.38	−
	SP	Roy Chemmanam	403	0.31	−
	SUCI(C)	Rejitha Jayaram	182	0.14	0.10
	Independent	John Joy	88	0.07	−
	Independent	Payas C. P.	58	0.05	−
Margin of victory			33,632	26.15	25.54
Turnout			1,28,603	78.37	0.85
	INC hold		Swing	10.62

There were 148,225 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[4]

2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election : Kottayam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan	53,825	46.84
	CPI(M)	V. N. Vasavan	53,114	46.23	−
	BJP	Narayanan Namboothiri	5,449	4.74	−
	BSP	V. S. Shajan	1,737	1.51	−
	Independent	Rajeev Abraham	387	0.34	−
	SUCI(C)	N. K. Biju	276	0.24	−
	Independent	George P. Elias	113	0.10
Margin of victory			711	0.61
Turnout			1,14,901	77.52
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing