Vamanapuram Assembly constituency is a general seat in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala, encompassing rural panchayats around Vamanapuram village with paddy fields, rubber plantations, and hill agriculture shaping its politics. The current MLA is D.K. Murali from CPI(M), elected in 2021 with 73,137 votes (49.91per cent), defeating INC's Anad Jayan (62,895 votes, 42.92per cent) by 10,242 votes, while BDJS's Thazhava Sahadevan got 5,603 votes (3.82per cent) amid 70.9per cent turnout. Key issues include Vamanapuram River flooding damaging crops; poor rural road connectivity hindering farm exports; youth unemployment despite Gulf remittances; erratic water supply and sanitation gaps; overburdened PHCs; illegal sand mining polluting rivers; monsoon power outages; rising land prices squeezing small farmers; traffic near markets; and inadequate public transport challenging this LDF stronghold's rural economy.