Vasudevan Sivankutty Seeks Nemom Retention in Kerala Election Result

Vasudevan Sivankutty is seeking to retain Nemom in the kerala election result for 2026. The CPI(M) leader and Kerala’s Minister for General Education and Labour won the seat in 2021 and now faces Rajeev Chandrasekhar of the NDA and K. S. Sabarinadhan of the UDF.

The contest puts the sitting MLA back in a seat that changed hands in 2016, when the BJP won Nemom. Sivankutty is the only one of the three named candidates who already holds the constituency.

Nemom and Sivankutty

Sivankutty represents Nemom in the Kerala Legislative Assembly and has made the seat central to his next electoral test. His bid is straightforward: keep the constituency after his 2021 win while defending against two challengers from the main opposing fronts named in the race.

That gives Nemom a three-way contest with a built-in comparison point. The seat was lost to the BJP in 2016, then returned to Sivankutty in 2021, so the 2026 race begins with a record of recent turnover rather than long-term control.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar in Nemom

Rajeev Chandrasekhar enters the contest as the NDA candidate and former Union Minister. His presence gives the race a national-level figure on one side, while K. S. Sabarinadhan stands for the UDF on the other.

For voters in Nemom, that means the ballot pits an incumbent state minister against two named challengers from the NDA and UDF. Sivankutty’s task is narrower than a broad statewide argument: he has to hold the seat he won in 2021.

2026 Kerala Assembly race

The 2026 election is the next test of that hold. With Nemom already shifting between parties in recent cycles, the result will show whether Sivankutty can turn his 2021 win into another term or whether the constituency changes course again.