Kunnamkulam (Kerala) Assembly Constituency Election

About Kunnamkulam Assembly Constituency

Kunnamkulam is constituency No. 62 of Kerala legislative assembly. This unreserved constituency is situated in Thrissur district and comes under the Alathur Lok Sabha constituency. The Alathur Lok Sabha constituency, which came into being in 2008 following delimitation, is reserved for scheduled castes.

According to the Election Commission of India, Kunnamkulam has total 1,74,161 registered voters. It comprises 82,226 male and 91,935 female registered voters.

In the 2011 assembly elections, the CPI(M) won this seat by a slim margin of just 481 votes. Babu M. Palissery, the winning CPI(M) candidate, got 58,244 votes. C.P. John of CMPKSC, who got 57,763 votes, was the runner-up. The voter turnout was 75.42 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Kunnamkulam Assembly Constituency

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Kunnamkulam assembly elections conducted so far.

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
1957	69	Kunnamkulam	GEN	Krishnan T. K.	M	CPI	21161	Velayudhan K. I.	M	INC	18788
1960	69	Kunnamkulam	GEN	P. R. Krishnan	M	INC	29450	T. K. Krishnan	M	CPI	26878
1965	51	Kunnamkulam	GEN	T. K. Krishnan	M	CPI(M)	26448	M. K. Raja	M	INC	25354
1967	51	Kunnamkulam	GEN	A.S.N.Nambissan	M	CPM	27014	A.K.Kunhunny	M	INC	24930
1970	51	Kunnamkulam	GEN	T. K. Krishnan	M	CPM	31767	K. P. Vishwanathan	M	INC	27439
1977	56	Kunnamkulam	GEN	K. P. Viswanathan	M	INC	35230	T. K. Krishnan	M	CPM	29889
1980	56	Kunnamkulam	GEN	K. P. Viswanathan	M	INC(U)	33127	N. Madhava	M	IND	16421
1982	56	Kunnamkulam	GEN	K. P. Aravindakshan	M	CPM	33882	K. P. Viswanathan	M	IND	32642
1987	56	Kunnamkulam	GEN	K.P. Aravindakshan	M	CPM	43327	V. Balaram	M	INC	42918
1991	56	Kunnamkulam	GEN	T.V. Chandramohan	M	INC	53099	K.P. Aravindhakshan	M	CPM	50344
1996	56	Kunnamkulam	GEN	N.R.Balan	M	CPM	49289	T.V. Chandramohan	M	INC	48405
2001	56	Kunnamkulam	GEN	T.V.Chandramohan	M	INC	59679	Usha Teacher	F	CPM	55383
2006	56	Kunnamkulam	GEN	Babu M Palissery	M	CPI(M)	61865	Adv.V .Balaram	M	DIC	40080
2011	62	Kunnamkulam	GEN	Babu.M.Palissery	M	CPM	58244	C.P.John	M	CMPKSC	57763
2016	62	Kunnamkulam	GEN	A. C. Moideen	M	CPM	63274	C.P.John	M	CMPKSC	55492
2021	62	Kunnamkulam	GEN	A.C. Moideen	M	CPM	75532	K. Jayasankar	M	INC	48901