Kottayam
Constituency No. 97 for the Kerala Legislative Assembly
CMS College Kottayam, the oldest existing college in India, established in 1815.
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Kerala
District	Kottayam
Established	1957
Total electors	128,625 (2016)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Kerala Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan
Party	INC
Alliance	UDF
Elected year	2021

Kottayam State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Kottayam Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] As of the 2016 Assembly elections, the current MLA is Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan of INC.

Local self-governed segments

Kottayam Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments:^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

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

2026

2026 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kottayam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan	68,893	60.57	6.85
	CPI(M)	Adv K. Anilkumar	32,907	28.93	9.4
	BDJS	P. Anilkumar	9,726	8.55	1.48
	AAP	Dr. Celine Philip	1,202	1.06	New
	NOTA	None of the above	711	0.63	0.24
	SUCI(C)	Ralesh Chandran	167	0.15	0.03
	Independent	Shaiju Kurian	137	0.12	−
Margin of victory			35,986
Turnout			113,747
	INC hold		Swing

2021

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kottayam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan	65,401	53.72
	CPI(M)	Adv K. Anilkumar	46658	38.33
	BJP	Minerva Mohan	8611	7.07
	NOTA	None of the above	473	0.39
	BSP	Sreekumar Chakkala	374	0.31
	SUCI(C)	M. K Shahazad	144	0.12
	ABHM	Arun Mangattu	77	0.06	−
Margin of victory			18743	15.27
Turnout
	INC hold		Swing

2016

There were 164,097 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Assembly election.^[3]

2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election: Kottayam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan	73,894	57.46	10.62
	CPI(M)	Reji Sakaria	40,262	31.31	14.92
	BJP	M. S. Karunakaran	12,582	9.78	5.04
	BSP	P. K. Geetha Krishnan	651	0.51	1.00
	NOTA	None of the above	483	0.38	−
	SP	Roy Chemmanam	403	0.31	−
	SUCI(C)	Rejitha Jayaram	182	0.14	0.10
	Independent	John Joy	88	0.07	−
	Independent	Payas C. P.	58	0.05	−
Margin of victory			33,632	26.15	25.54
Turnout			1,28,603	78.37	0.85
	INC hold		Swing	10.62

See also

• Kottayam
• Kottayam district
• List of constituencies of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
• 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election
• 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election

References