Kuttanad Assembly constituency, numbered 106, is located in Alappuzha and Kottayam districts of Kerala and falls under the Mavelikkara parliamentary constituency. Established in 1957 and redefined in the 2008 delimitation, it spans Kuttanad taluk's iconic below-sea-level farmlands, panchayats like Champakulam, Edathua, Karuvatta, Muttar, Nedumudi, Pathiyoor, and Veliyanad, with around 195,000 electors. This general seat symbolizes Kerala's unique paddy bowl—floating farms, toddy tapping, backwater canals, houseboat tourism, and fisherfolk—where communities navigate flooded fields via canoes amid Vembanad Lake's vast expanse. CPI(M) of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) dominates via K.C. Venugopal as current MLA since 2016. In 2021, he secured 72,248 votes (49.15per cent), defeating Congress's Babu Prasad (64,389 votes) by 7,859 votes (5.35per cent) at 78.92per cent turnout—widening his 2016 margin of 3,446 and reclaiming from UDF's 2011 hold. LDF's farmer-labor unions leverage flood distress against UDF's traditional sway and BJP's 6-8per cent share. Key issues include devastating floods drowning crops twice yearly, saline intrusion killing paddy yields, farmer suicides amid debt-crisis, poor canal dredging and embankment breaches, fish stock depletion polluting backwaters, coir-toddy worker unemployment, youth migration, waste choking waterways, and demands for resilient farming tech, irrigation pumps, seafood hubs, eco-tourism upgrades, and climate adaptation funds. These agrarian perils sustain LDF's grip in Kuttanad's poetic, flood-battered heartland.