Punalur Assembly constituency of Kollam district in Keralam is having six candidates in the fray. C. Ajayaprasad of the CPI is the LDF candidate at Punalur. UDF is fielding the Indian Union Muslim League’s Noushad Unus. The NDA candidate at Punalur is the Twenty 20 Party’s Reghunadh Kamukumchery. Bahujan Samaj Party’s Jose Saranath, K. Mahesh of SUCI Communist and Nedumoncavu Gopalakrishnan of Equity Party of India are other candidates here. In the 2021 Assembly elections. P S Supal of CPI defeated the Indian Union Muslim League’s Abdul Rahman Randathaani by a margin of more than 37,000 votes. In the 2016 elections, CPI candidate K. Raju also won here with a margin of more than 33,000 votes.