About Kottayam Assembly Constituency
Kottayam is constituency No. 97 of Kerala legislative assembly. This unreserved constituency is situated in Kottayam district and comes under the Kottayam Lok Sabha constituency.
According to the Election Commission of India, there are 1,48,225 registered voters in Tirur constituency. It comprises 72,505 male and 75,720 female registered voters.
In the 2011 assembly elections, the CPI(M) won this seat by a slim margin of just 711 votes. Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, the winning CPI(M) candidate, got 53,825 votes. CPI(M) candidate V.N.Vasavan, the runner-up, got 53,114 votes. The voter turnout was 77.54 %.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Kottayam Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Kottayam assembly elections conducted so far.
| Year | A C No. | Constituency Name | Category | Winner | Gender | Party | Votes | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Votes |
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| 1957 | 41 | Kottayam | GEN | Bhaskaran Nair P. | M | CPI | 23021 | Govindhan Nair M. P. | M | INC | 20750 |
| 1960 | 41 | Kottayam | GEN | M. P. Govindan Nair | M | INC | 29020 | N. Raghava Kurup | M | CPI | 27863 |
| 1965 | 84 | Kottayam | GEN | M. K. George | M | CPI(M) | 17880 | M. P. Govindan Nair | M | INC | 14396 |
| 1967 | 84 | Kottayam | GEN | M . K . George | M | CPM | 25298 | M . P. G . Nair | M | INC | 16188 |
| 1970 | 84 | Kottayam | GEN | M. Thomas | M | CPM | 26147 | K. George Thomas | M | NCO | 14190 |
| 1977 | 90 | Kottayam | GEN | P. P. George | M | CPI | 35683 | M. Thomas | M | CPM | 32107 |
| 1980 | 90 | Kottayam | GEN | K. M. Abraham | M | CPM | 37588 | P. B. R. Pillai | M | JNP | 25624 |
| 1982 | 90 | Kottayam | GEN | N. Srinivasan | M | IND | 38886 | K. M. Abraham | M | CPM | 33548 |
| 1987 | 90 | Kottayam | GEN | T. K. Ramakrishanan | M | CPM | 55422 | Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan | M | INC | 45896 |
| 1991 | 90 | Kottayam | GEN | T.K. Ramakrishnan | M | CPM | 54182 | Cherian Philip | M | INC | 51500 |
| 1996 | 90 | Kottayam | GEN | T.K.Ramakrishnan | M | CPM | 52609 | Mohan Sankar | M | INC | 45545 |
| 2001 | 90 | Kottayam | GEN | Mercy Ravi | F | INC | 57795 | Vaikom Viswan | M | CPM | 45954 |
| 2006 | 90 | Kottayam | GEN | V N Vasavan | M | CPI(M) | 47731 | Ajay Tharayil | M | INC | 47249 |
| 2011 | 97 | Kottayam | GEN | Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan | M | INC | 53825 | V.N.Vasavan | M | CPM | 53114 |
Last Updated on April 29, 2020