Adoor (Kerala) Assembly Constituency Elections

About Adoor Assembly Constituency

Adoor is constituency No. 115 of Kerala legislative assembly. This assembly seat is reserved for scheduled castes (SC). It is situated in Pathanamthitta district and comes under the Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency. According to the Election Commission of India, Adoor assembly constituency has 1,94,014 registered voters. It comprises 89,881 male and 1,04,133 female registered voters.

In the 2011 assembly elections, the CPI(M) managed to clinch this seat by a margin of just 607 votes. Chittayam Gopakumar, the winning CPI(M) candidate, got 63,501 votes. INC candidate Pandalam Sudhakaran was the nearest contender with 62,894 votes. The voter turnout was 69.61 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Adoor Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
1965	113	Adoor	GEN	K. K. Gopalan Nair	M	KC	17651	P. Ramalinga Ayyar	M	CPI	15287
1967	113	Adoor	GEN	Ramalingom	M	CPI	25804	P . Raghavan	M	IND	12970
1970	113	Adoor	GEN	Thegamom Balakrishnan	M	CPI	23285	Damodaram Unnithan	M	CPM	20005
1977	119	Adoor	GEN	Thennala Balakrishna Pillai	M	INC	31214	Mathew Muthalali	M	KCP	23826
1980	119	Adoor	GEN	C. P. Karunakaran Pillai	M	CPM	31639	Thennala Balakrishna Pillai	M	INC(I)	28326
1982	119	Adoor	GEN	Thennala Balakrishna Pillai	M	INC	30911	C. P. Karunakaran Pillai	M	CPM	29173
1987	119	Adoor	GEN	R. Unnikrishna Pillai	M	CPM	37990	Thennala Balakrishna Pillai	M	INC	36764
1991	119	Adoor	GEN	Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan	M	INC	44147	R. Unnikrishna Pillai	M	CPM	38380
1996	119	Adoor	GEN	Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan	M	INC	47907	K.N.Balagopal	M	CPM	38706
2001	119	Adoor	GEN	Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan	M	INC	53034	Pallickal Prasannakumar	M	IND	37694
2006	119	Adoor	GEN	Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan	M	INC	53416	Prof. D K John	M	KEC	34952
2011	115	Adoor	(SC)	Chittayam Gopakumar	M	CPI	63501	Pandalam Sudhakaran	M	INC	62894
2016	115	Adoor	(SC)	Chittayam Gopakumar	M	CPI	76034	K.K. Shaju	M	INC	50574
2021	115	Adoor	(SC)	Chittayam Gopakumar	M	CPI	66569	M.G. Kannan	M	INC	63650