Punalur (Kerala) Assembly Constituency Elections

About Punalur Assembly Constituency

Punalur is constituency No. 121 of Kerala legislative assembly. It is situated in Kollam district and comes under the Kollam Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency. According to the Election Commission of India, Punalur assembly seat has 1,89,994 registered voters. It includes 89,953 male and 1,00,041 female registered voters. The CPI won this seat in the 2011 assembly elections. K. Raju, the winning CPI candidate, secured 72,648 votes. Congress candidate Johnson Abraham was the nearest contender with 54,643 votes. The winning margin was 18,005. The voter turnout was 70.14 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Punalur Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
1957	25	Punalur	GEN	Gopalan P.	M	CPI	20455	Kunjuraman Assan K.	M	INC	16366
1960	25	Punalur	GEN	K. Krishna Pillai	M	CPI	26415	Sathibhai	F	INC	23042
1965	109	Punalur	GEN	C. M. Stephen	M	INC	14599	K. Krishna Pillai	M	CPI	13787
1967	109	Punalur	GEN	M . N . G . Nair	M	CPI	23931	P . C . Baby	M	INC	18794
1970	109	Punalur	GEN	K. Krishna Pillai	M	CPI	25407	V. Bharathan	M	CPM	21981
1977	115	Punalur	GEN	P.K. Sreenjvasan	M	CPI	33870	V. Bharathan	M	CPM	30668
1980	115	Punalur	GEN	P. K. Sreenivasan	M	CPI	36133	Sam Oommen Oommen	M	KCJ	33920
1984	By Polls	Punalur	GEN	V.S.Pillai	M	KCJ	46553	P.K.Sreenivasan	M	CPI	45579
1982	115	Punalur	GEN	Sam Oommen	M	KCJ	36091	P. K. Sreenivasan	M	CPI	34684
1987	115	Punalur	GEN	Chitharenjan	M	CPI	47745	Surendran Pillai	M	KEC	36669
1991	115	Punalur	GEN	Punalur Madhu	M	INC	53050	Mullakkara Ratnakaran	M	CPI	51738
1996	115	Punalur	GEN	P.K.Sreenivasan	M	CPI	55382	Punalur Madhu	M	INC	48684
1996	By Polls	Punalur	GEN	P.S. Supal	M	CPI	65401	Bharathipuram Sasi	M	INC	44068
2001	115	Punalur	GEN	P S Supal	M	CPI	57065	A Hidur Muhammod	M	INC	55522
2006	115	Punalur	GEN	Adv.K.Raju	M	CPI	58895	M.V.Raghavan	M	CMPKSC	50970
2011	121	Punalur	GEN	Adv.K.Raju	M	CPI	72648	Adv.Johnson Abraham	M	INC	54643
2016	121	Punalur	GEN	Adv.K.Raju	M	CPI	82136	A. Yunus Kanju	M	IUML	48554
2021	121	Punalur	GEN	P. S. Supal	M	CPI	80428	A. R. Randathani	M	IUML	43371