E. Balanandan (16 June 1924 – 19 January 2009[1]) was an Indian politician and a trade union leader from the Kerala State of India.

[2] Balanandan initiated his political career in the Indian National Congress, but he later joined the Communist Party of India in 1943, and then the CPI(M) in 1964.

In 1980, he was elected for a four-year term to the 7th Lok Sabha, the lower house of India's bicameral parliament from Mukundapuram constituency.

Balanandan was the President of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions and of the Electricity Employees' Federation of India.

Balanandan died on 19 January 2009 at a private hospital in Kochi in Kerala, where he was admitted due to respiratory illness.