Nedumangad Assembly constituency is a general seat in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala, encompassing Nedumangad town and rural panchayats with rubber plantations, pineapple farms, and hill agriculture shaping its politics. The current MLA is G.R. Anil from CPI, elected in 2021 with 72,742 votes (47.54per cent), defeating INC's P.S. Prasanth (49,433 votes, 32.31per cent) by a margin of 23,309 votes, while BJP's J.R. Padmakumar got 26,861 votes (17.56per cent) amid 71.54per cent turnout. Key issues include landslides and flooding from hill streams damaging plantations; poor rural road connectivity hindering crop exports; youth unemployment despite Gulf remittances; erratic water supply and sanitation gaps; overburdened PHCs; illegal quarrying polluting rivers; monsoon power outages; rising land prices squeezing small farmers; traffic near markets; and inadequate public transport challenging this LDF stronghold's plantation economy.