The Assembly segment of Adoor that houses a sizeable number of plantation workers, especially those in the cashew sector, is a constituency reserved for Scheduled Castes in Pathanamthitta district.
In the 2011 election, Chittayam Gopakumar of the Communist Party of India (CPI) defeated his United Democratic Front (UDF) rival Pandalam Sudhakaran by a narrow margin of 607 votes after a long gap of two decades.
Now, Mr. Gopakumar is a familiar face in the constituency. The constituency houses seven grama panchayats of Ezhamkulam, Aerath, Pallickal, Kadambanad, Kodumon, Pandalam- Thekkekkara, and Thumpamon, besides the two municipalities of Adoor and Pandalam. The LDF had an upper hand in the local body polls and all the grama panchayats, except Thumpamon. The block panchayats of Parakode and Pandalam that come under the Assembly segment too are ruled by the LDF.
The LDF could win the district panchayat divisions of Enathu, Pallickal, and Kodumon, while the UDF could win the Kulanada division in the local body polls. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) too expanded its vote base from 6,210 votes in the 2011 Assembly polls to 22,796 in the Lok Sabha election. However, the BJP vote share has come down to 10,749 in the local body election.
