Punalur Assembly constituency explained

Punalur
Type:	SLA
Constituency No:	121
State:	Kerala
Established:	1957
Reservation:	None
Electors:	1,46251 (2021)
Mla:	P. S. Supal
Party:	CPI
Latest Election Year:	2021
District:	Kollam

Punalur is a legislative assembly constituency in Kollam district of Kerala, India. It is one among the 11 assembly constituencies in Kollam district.^[1] The current MLA is P.S Supal of CPI.

Structure

As per the recent changes on assembly constituency delimitations, the Punalur assembly constituency consists of the municipality of Punalur and 7 neighbouring panchayaths including Anchal, Ariyankavu, Edamulakkal, Eroor, Karavaloor, Kulathupuzha and Thenmala in Punalur Taluk.^{[2] [3]}

Electoral history

Punalur assembly constituency was carved out from Pathanapuram constituency in 1954.

Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly Elections

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of Kerala legislative assembly who have represented the constituency:

Election	Niyama Sabha	Member	Party		Tenure
1957	1st	P. Gopalan	CPI		1957–1960
1960	2nd	K. Krishna Pillai			1960–1965
1967	3rd	M. N. Govindan Nair			1967–1970
1970	4th	K. Krishna Pillai			1970–1977
1977	5th	P. K. Sreenivasan			1977–1980
1980	6th				1980–1982
1982	7th	M. Sam Oommen	KC(J)		1982–1984
1984*		V. Surendran Pillai			1984 –1987
1987	8th	J. Chitharanjan	CPI		1987–1991
1991	9th	Punalur Madhu	INC		1991–1996
1996	10th	P. K. Sreenivasan	CPI		1996
1996*		P. S. Supal			1996–2001
2001	11th	2001–2006
2006	12th	K. Raju			2006–2011
2011	13th				2011–2016
2016	14th				2016-2021
2021	15th	P. S. Supal			Incumbent

* indicates bypolls

Election results

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

Niyamasabha Election 2021

There were 2,05,830 registered voters in the constituency for the 2021 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.^[5]

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 2,04,628 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.^[6]

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,89,994 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: CONSTITUENCIES IN KERALA . Kerala Assembly . 2018-04-18.
2. Web site: ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES AND THEIR EXTENT – Kerala . Kerala Assembly . 2018-04-18.
3. Web site: Constituencies – Kollam District . Chief Electoral Officer – Kerala . 2018-04-18.
4. Web site: Statistical Report on General Election, 1954 to the Legislative Assembly of Travancore-Cochin . 2018-10-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20181017163233/https://www.eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1954/StatRep_TravCochin_1954.pdf . 17 October 2018 .
5. Web site: Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2021, Election commission of India. eci.gov.in.
6. Web site: Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2016, Election commission of India. eci.gov.in.
7. Web site: Kerala Niyamasabha Election Results 2011, Election commission of India. 11 March 2020. eci.gov.in.