Kundara is a legislative assembly constituency in

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. It is one among the 11 assembly constituencies in

. As of the 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is

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History

The constituency was previously named as ''Perinad Assembly Constituency''. In 1957, it was dissolved and formed Thrikkadavoor constituency. During the election of 1960, Thrikkadavur was a two-member constituency. Later in 1967, Kundara constituency was formed by dissolving Thrikkadavur. After the general assembly election held in 1967, P. K. Sukumaran of CPI(M) became the first elected member from Kundara assembly constituency.

Structure

As per the recent changes on assembly constituency delimitations, Kundara assembly constituency consists of 5 panchayaths from Kollam Taluk including Elampalloor,

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, Perayam and

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Major institutions in the constituency

* Panchayaths: 5 ( Elampalloor,

, Perayam,

, Kundara) * Railway stations: 3 ( Kundara, Kundara East,

) * Medical college hospital: 1 ( Azeezia Medical College, Meeyannoor) * Government hospitals: 1 (Govt. Taluk Hospital, Kundara)

Members of Legislative Assembly

The following list contains all members of

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who have represented the constituency: Key

Election results

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

Niyamasabha Election 2016

There were 2,00,163 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 Kerala Niyamasabha Election.

Niyamasabha Election 2011

There were 1,78,990 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.

References

{{Kerala Assembly Constituencies Assembly constituencies of Kerala Assembly constituencies in Kollam district 1967 establishments in Kerala Constituencies established in 1967