Nedumangad election results 2026: CPI's GR Anil defeats INC's Meenankal Kumar by 21,583 votes

In Kerala's Nedumangad, CPI's GR Anil received 69,206 votes to defeat INC's Meenankal Kumar by 21,583 votes. Kumar got 47,623 votes.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 (47.54 per cent), defeating INC's P.S. Prasanth (49,433 votes, 32.31 per cent) by a margin of 23,309 votes, while BJP's J.R. Padmakumar got 26,861 votes (17.56 per cent) amid 71.54 per cent turnout.For the 2026 elections, the participating candidates are G. R. Anil (CPI), Meenankal Kumar (INC), and Yuvraj Gokul (BJP).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.