Vasudevan Sivankutty, a senior leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Kerala's Minister for General Education and Labour, lost the Nemom seat to BJP's Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
V. Sivankutty, born on November 10, 1954, in Cheruvakkal, Thiruvananthapuram district, completed his Bachelor of Arts in History from Sree Narayana College in 1976 and later obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from Kerala Law Academy, Thiruvananthapuram, in 1983.
He began his electoral journey in local governance, serving as the President of the Ulloor Panchayat in Thiruvananthapuram district.
V. Sivankutty had earlier won the Nemom constituency in the 2011 Kerala Assembly elections as a CPI(M) candidate, but lost to BJP's O. Rajagopal in 2016 by a margin of 8,671 votes.
He returned to the constituency in the 2021 Assembly elections and won the seat with 55,837 votes, defeating BJP's Kummanam Rajasekharan by 3,949 votes.
Nemom has historically witnessed frequent shifts in electoral outcomes, with no candidate securing consecutive terms in recent cycles.
