Pathanapuram Assembly constituency is a general seat in Kollam district, Kerala, encompassing Pathanapuram town and rural panchayats with rubber plantations and forested hills shaping its agrarian politics. The current MLA is K.B. Ganesh Kumar from Kerala Congress (B), elected in 2021 with 67,276 votes (49.09per cent), defeating INC's Jyothikumar Chamakkala (52,940 votes, 38.63per cent) by 14,336 votes amid 74.36per cent turnout, while BJP's V.S. Jithin Dev got 12,398 votes (9.05per cent). Key issues include Kallada River flooding damaging crops; poor rural roads hindering plantation 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 KC(B)-LDF aligned seat's rural economy.