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.infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above">Aruppukottai</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader category" style="font-weight: bold; background: #ccf; padding: 4px;">Constituency No. 207 for the <a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly" title="Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly">Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Constitution-Aruppukkottai.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Constitution-Aruppukkottai.svg/220px-Constitution-Aruppukkottai.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Constitution-Aruppukkottai.svg/330px-Constitution-Aruppukkottai.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Constitution-Aruppukkottai.svg/440px-Constitution-Aruppukkottai.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ccf; padding: 4px;">Constituency details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_India" title="Administrative divisions of India">Region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/South_India" title="South India">South India</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/States_and_union_territories_of_India" title="States and union territories of India">State</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu" title="Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_constituencies_of_the_Lok_Sabha" title="List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha constituency</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Virudhunagar_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Virudhunagar Lok Sabha constituency">Virudhunagar</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">1951</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Total electors</th><td class="infobox-data">223,820</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ccf; padding: 4px;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_Legislative_Assembly_(India)" title="Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)">Member of Legislative Assembly</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/16th_Tamil_Nadu_Assembly" title="16th Tamil Nadu Assembly">16th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>Incumbent</b> <div> <b><a href="/wiki/K._K._S._S._R._Ramachandran" class="mw-redirect" title="K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran">K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran</a></b> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Party</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#FF0D0D"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Elected year</th><td class="infobox-data">2021</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Aruppukottai</b> is a legislative assembly in <a href="/wiki/Virudhunagar_district" title="Virudhunagar district">Virudhunagar district</a>, which includes the city, <a href="/wiki/Aruppukkottai" title="Aruppukkottai">Aruppukkottai</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is a part of <a href="/wiki/Virudhunagar_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Virudhunagar Lok Sabha constituency">Virudhunagar Lok Sabha constituency</a>. This is the constituency, held by popular actor-turned politician, <a href="/wiki/M._G._Ramachandran" title="M. G. Ramachandran">M. G. Ramachandran</a>, when he first became Chief Minister in the <a href="/wiki/1977_Tamil_Nadu_state_assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1977 Tamil Nadu state assembly election">1977 assembly elections</a>. It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu, in India. </p><p>The Chettiyar (all kinds - mostly Devanger) community is the biggest community in this constituency with around 13% population. </p><p>The population of other communities are: 15% Devendrakula Velalar, 15% all kinds of Naidus, 14% Saliyar, 10% Nadar, 10% Mutharaiyar, 8% Mukkulathor (Mostly Maravar and Agamudaiyar), 8% Reddy, 3% Konar, 3% Pillaimar and 3% Muslims. </p><p>In the 2021 MLA election, the DMK party's Reddy candidate K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran won, and became the minister of Revenue and Disaster Management. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Until the 2006 election, Aruppukottai Assembly constituency was part of <a href="/wiki/Ramanathapuram_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Ramanathapuram Lok Sabha constituency">Ramanathapuram Lok Sabha constituency</a>. Since the 2006 election, it has been part of <a href="/wiki/Virudhunagar_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Virudhunagar Lok Sabha constituency">Virudhunagar Lok Sabha constituency</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Members_of_Legislative_Assembly">Members of Legislative Assembly</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Members of Legislative Assembly"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Madras_State">Madras State</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Madras State"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" width="50%"> <tbody><tr> <th style="background-color:#666666; color:white">Year </th> <th style="background-color:#666666; color:white">Winner </th> <th style="background-color:#666666; color:white" colspan="2">Party </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1952_Madras_Legislative_Assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election">1952</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jayarama_Reddiar" title="Jayarama Reddiar">Jayarama Reddiar</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #00BFFF;" data-sort-value="Indian National Congress"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1957_Madras_Legislative_Assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1957 Madras Legislative Assembly election">1957</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/M._D._Ramasami" title="M. D. Ramasami">M. D. Ramasami</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1962_Madras_Legislative_Assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1962 Madras Legislative Assembly election">1962</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/T._Kadambavana_Sundaram" title="T. Kadambavana Sundaram">T. Kadambavana Sundaram</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #00BFFF;" data-sort-value="Indian National Congress"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1967_Madras_Legislative_Assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1967 Madras Legislative Assembly election">1967</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/S._S._Bharathi" class="mw-redirect" title="S. S. Bharathi">S. S. Bharathi</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: Blue;" data-sort-value="Swatantra Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Swatantra_Party" title="Swatantra Party">Swatantra Party</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tamil_Nadu">Tamil Nadu</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Tamil Nadu"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" width="50%"> <tbody><tr> <th style="background-color:#666666; color:white">Assembly </th> <th style="background-color:#666666; color:white">Duration </th> <th style="background-color:#666666; color:white">Winner </th> <th style="background-color:#666666; color:white" colspan="2">Party </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1971_Tamil_Nadu_state_assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1971 Tamil Nadu state assembly election">Fifth</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1971_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">1971</a>-1977 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sowdi_Sundara_Bharathi" title="Sowdi Sundara Bharathi">Sowdi Sundara Bharathi</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #ac1313;" data-sort-value="All India Forward Bloc"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Forward_Bloc" title="All India Forward Bloc">All India Forward Bloc</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1977_Tamil_Nadu_state_assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1977 Tamil Nadu state assembly election">Sixth</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1977_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">1977</a>-1980 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/M._G._Ramachandran" title="M. G. Ramachandran">M. G. Ramachandran</a> </td> <td rowspan="3" style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #009933;" data-sort-value="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam"> </td> <td scope="row" rowspan="3" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1980_Tamil_Nadu_state_assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1980 Tamil Nadu state assembly election">Seventh</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1980_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">1980</a>-1984 </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/M._Pitchai" title="M. Pitchai">M. Pitchai</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1984_Tamil_Nadu_state_assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1984 Tamil Nadu state assembly election">Eighth</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1984_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">1984</a>-1989 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1989_Tamil_Nadu_state_assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1989 Tamil Nadu state assembly election">Ninth</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1989_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">1989</a>-1991 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._Thangapandian" title="V. Thangapandian">V. Thangapandian</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF0D0D;" data-sort-value="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1991_Tamil_Nadu_state_assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1991 Tamil Nadu state assembly election">Tenth</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1991_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">1991</a>-1996 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._G._Manimeghalai" title="V. G. Manimeghalai">V. G. Manimeghalai</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #009933;" data-sort-value="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/1996_Tamil_Nadu_state_assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1996 Tamil Nadu state assembly election">Eleventh</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1996_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">1996</a>-1998 </td> <td>V. Thangapandian </td> <td rowspan="2" style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF0D0D;" data-sort-value="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam"> </td> <td scope="row" rowspan="2" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu_assembly_by-election,_1997/98" class="mw-redirect" title="Tamil Nadu assembly by-election, 1997/98">1998</a>-2001 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Thangam_Thenarasu" class="mw-redirect" title="Thangam Thenarasu">Thangam Thenarasu</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2001_Tamil_Nadu_state_assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2001 Tamil Nadu state assembly election">Twelfth</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2001_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">2001</a>-2006 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/K._K._Sivasamy" title="K. K. Sivasamy">K. K. Sivasamy</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #009933;" data-sort-value="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2006_Tamil_Nadu_state_assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Tamil Nadu state assembly election">Thirteenth</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2006_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">2006</a>-2011 </td> <td>Thangam Thennarusu </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF0D0D;" data-sort-value="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2011_Tamil_Nadu_state_assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Tamil Nadu state assembly election">Fourteenth</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2011_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">2011</a>-2016 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vaigaichelvan" title="Vaigaichelvan">Vaigaichelvan</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #009933;" data-sort-value="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2016_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">Fifteenth</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2016_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">2016</a>-2021 </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/K._K._S._S._R._Ramachandran" class="mw-redirect" title="K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran">K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF0D0D;" data-sort-value="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam"> </td> <td scope="row" rowspan="2" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2021_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">Sixteenth</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2021_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">2021</a>-<a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Election_results">Election results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Election results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="barbox tright" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:300px; background: var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,white); color: var(--color-base,black)"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Vote share of winning candidates</th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"></td> <td style="width:275px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="#2021">2021</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#FF0D0D; width:53.18%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">53.18%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="#2016">2016</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#FF0D0D; width:49.41%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">49.41%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="#2011">2011</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#009933; width:51.15%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">51.15%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="#2006">2006</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#FF0D0D; width:44.88%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">44.88%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="#2001">2001</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#009933; width:46.07%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">46.07%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="#1996">1996</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#FF0D0D; width:43.70%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">43.70%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="#1991">1991</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#009933; width:58.91%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">58.91%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="#1989">1989</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#FF0D0D; width:45.59%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">45.59%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="#1984">1984</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#009933; width:45.32%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">45.32%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="#1980">1980</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#009933; width:53.67%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">53.67%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="#1977">1977</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#009933; width:56.23%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">56.23%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="#1971">1971</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#ac1313; width:56.67%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">56.67%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="#1967">1967</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Blue; width:54.68%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">54.68%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="#1962">1962</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#00BFFF; width:54.54%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">54.54%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="#1957">1957</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#DCDCDC; width:55.13%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">55.13%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="#1952">1952</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#00BFFF; width:48.27%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">48.27%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2021">2021</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 2021"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2021_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election</a>: Aruppukottai </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF0D0D; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/K._K._S._S._R._Ramachandran" class="mw-redirect" title="K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran">K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>91,040 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.18% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #009933; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Vaigaichelvan" title="Vaigaichelvan">Vaigaichelvan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">52,006 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30.38% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #B31818; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Naam_Tamilar_Katchi" title="Naam Tamilar Katchi">NTK</a> </td> <td class="fn">Uma </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,392 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.24% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #D60505; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Makkal_Needhi_Maiam" title="Makkal Needhi Maiam">MNM</a> </td> <td class="fn">V. Umadevi </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,638 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.46% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FFFF00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Desiya_Murpokku_Dravida_Kazhagam" title="Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam">DMDK</a> </td> <td class="fn">R. Ramesh </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,532 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.48% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FFFFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/None_of_the_above" title="None of the above">NOTA</a> </td> <td class="fn">Nota </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,323 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.77% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Margin of victory </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39,034 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22.80% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.85% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">171,201 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">76.49% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.68% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">223,820 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF0D0D"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">3.77% </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2016">2016</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 2016"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2016_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election</a>: Aruppukottai </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF0D0D; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/K._K._S._S._R._Ramachandran" class="mw-redirect" title="K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran">K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>81,485 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>49.41% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #009933; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Vaigaichelvan" title="Vaigaichelvan">Vaigaichelvan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">63,431 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.46% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #f50222; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">CPI</a> </td> <td class="fn">Senthil Kumar. S </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,817 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.95% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FF9933; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Vetrivel. R </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,223 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.95% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FFFFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/None_of_the_above" title="None of the above">NOTA</a> </td> <td class="fn">None Of The Above </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,509 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.52% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #B31818; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Naam_Tamilar_Katchi" title="Naam Tamilar Katchi">NTK</a> </td> <td class="fn">Nagendran. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,404 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.85% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FFFF00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Pattali_Makkal_Katchi" title="Pattali Makkal Katchi">PMK</a> </td> <td class="fn">Aravindkumar. D </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">817 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.50% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Lingappandi. P. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">699 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.42% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #22409A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bahujan_Samaj_Party" title="Bahujan Samaj Party">BSP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sundarraj. I </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">388 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.24% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Muthumariappan. M. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">262 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.16% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Vijayakumar. G. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">225 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.14% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Margin of victory </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,054 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.95% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.84% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">164,909 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">79.17% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.18% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">208,309 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF0D0D"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">-1.74% </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2011">2011</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 2011"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2011_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election</a>: Aruppukottai </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#009933; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Vaigaichelvan" title="Vaigaichelvan">Vaigaichelvan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>76,546 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>51.15% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FF0D0D; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/K._K._S._S._R._Ramachandran" class="mw-redirect" title="K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran">K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">65,908 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.05% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FF9933; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Vetrivel. R </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,966 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.31% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Jegan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,009 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.67% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Nagarajan. K </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">747 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.50% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Kalaiselvan. S </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">696 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.47% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #22409A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bahujan_Samaj_Party" title="Bahujan Samaj Party">BSP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Kandasamy. K </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">640 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.43% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Murugan. R </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">445 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.30% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Perumalsamy. S </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">378 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.25% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sivasubramanian. M </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">325 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.22% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ganesan. P </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">230 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.15% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Margin of victory </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,638 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.11% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.00% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">179,531 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">83.35% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.69% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">149,637 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #009933"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">6.28% </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2006">2006</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 2006"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2006_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election</a>: Aruppukottai </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF0D0D; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Thangam_Thenarasu" class="mw-redirect" title="Thangam Thenarasu">Thangam Thenarasu</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>52,002 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>44.88% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #009933; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a> </td> <td class="fn">Murugan. K </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43,768 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37.77% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FFFF00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Desiya_Murpokku_Dravida_Kazhagam" title="Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam">DMDK</a> </td> <td class="fn">Bharathi Thasan. A </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,836 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.94% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #ac1313; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Forward_Bloc" title="All India Forward Bloc">AIFB</a> </td> <td class="fn">Krishna Ghandhi. P. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,234 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.93% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FF9933; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Chella Durai Pandian. E </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,193 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.03% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Mannan. K </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">665 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.57% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Maruthupandi. R </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">472 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.41% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Samyraj. A </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">461 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.40% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Periyasamy. A. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">370 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.32% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Karuppaiah. V. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">325 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.28% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Kanniah Thevar. M </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">295 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.25% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Margin of victory </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,234 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.11% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.36% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">115,875 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">71.66% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.32% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">161,711 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF0D0D"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">-1.19% </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2001">2001</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 2001"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2001_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election</a>: Aruppukottai </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#009933; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/K._K._Sivasamy" title="K. K. Sivasamy">K. K. Sivasamy</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>49,307 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46.07% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FF0D0D; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Thangam_Thenarasu" class="mw-redirect" title="Thangam Thenarasu">Thangam Thenarasu</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43,155 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.32% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FC0000; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Marumalarchi_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">MDMK</a> </td> <td class="fn">Shanmuga Sundaram R. M. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,558 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.86% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Venkatesan A </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">960 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.90% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Rajagopalan R </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">822 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.77% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Regunathan C </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">775 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.72% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Murugan S </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">622 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.58% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Murugan R </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">255 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.24% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Shanmugavel K </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">162 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.15% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Periasamy A </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">157 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.15% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Subramanian R </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">141 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.13% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Margin of victory </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,152 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.75% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−10.11% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">107,026 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">62.33% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.97% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">171,719 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #009933"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">2.37% </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1997-1998_by-election">1997-1998 by-election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 1997-1998 by-election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1997%E2%80%9398_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_by-elections" class="mw-redirect" title="1997–98 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly by-elections">1997–98 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly by-elections</a>: Aruppukottai </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FF0D0D; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Thangam_Thenarasu" class="mw-redirect" title="Thangam Thenarasu">Thangam Thenarasu</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40,223 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36.5% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #009933; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a> </td> <td class="fn">V.S. Panchavarnam </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38,272 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">89.40 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: black; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Puthiya_Tamizhagam" class="mw-redirect" title="Puthiya Tamizhagam">PT</a> </td> <td class="fn">P.T. Manickam </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,484 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.3% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">K. Palaniswamy </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,525 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.6% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #00BFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn">K. Chandran </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,329 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.2% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,951 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.8% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">110,183 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">65.9% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF0D0D"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1996">1996</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 1996"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1996_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election</a>: Aruppukottai </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF0D0D; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/V._Thangapandian" title="V. Thangapandian">V. Thangapandian</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>45,081 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>43.70% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #009933; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sundarapandian. K. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28,716 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">27.84% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FC0000; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Marumalarchi_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">MDMK</a> </td> <td class="fn">Shanmugasundaram. R. M. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,987 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16.47% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Chinnakaruppan. K. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,565 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.27% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #00FFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Indira_Congress_(Tiwari)" title="All India Indira Congress (Tiwari)">AIIC(T)</a> </td> <td class="fn">Perumal. V. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,077 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.04% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sivasamy. S. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">260 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.25% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Kanthirajan. K. S. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">201 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.19% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Periasamy Pannai. S. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">148 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.14% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Athimoolam. V. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">146 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.14% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Veeran. A. K. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">132 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.13% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sundarasu. T </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">116 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.11% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Margin of victory </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,365 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.86% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.73% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">103,165 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">68.31% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.94% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">159,117 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF0D0D"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">-15.21% </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1991">1991</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 1991"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1991_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election</a>: Aruppukottai </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#009933; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/V._G._Manimeghalai" title="V. G. Manimeghalai">V. G. Manimeghalai</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>56,985 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>58.91% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FF0D0D; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a> </td> <td class="fn">Shanmuga Sundaram R. M. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37,066 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.32% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FFFF00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Pattali_Makkal_Katchi" title="Pattali Makkal Katchi">PMK</a> </td> <td class="fn">Karuppiah C. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,350 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.40% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Karuppanan C. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">289 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.30% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sathasivam M. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">216 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.22% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Balasubramani R. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">162 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.17% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #000000; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_Congress_(Socialist)_%E2%80%93_Sarat_Chandra_Sinha" title="Indian Congress (Socialist) – Sarat Chandra Sinha">INS(SCS)</a> </td> <td class="fn">Pandiperumal E. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">160 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.17% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Balamurugan K. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">125 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.13% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Kanakkan M. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">96 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.10% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Periyasamy S. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">71 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.07% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Thanikkodi E. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">67 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.07% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Margin of victory </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19,919 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20.59% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.86% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">96,730 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">63.37% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−7.39% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">157,995 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #009933"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">13.32% </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1989">1989</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: 1989"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1989_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election</a>: Aruppukottai </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF0D0D; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/V._Thangapandian" title="V. Thangapandian">V. Thangapandian</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>44,990 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>45.59% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #009933; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a> </td> <td class="fn">Panchavarnam. V. S. M </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29,467 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.86% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #00BFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn">Chelliah. R. M </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,466 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18.71% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #ac1313; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Forward_Bloc" title="All India Forward Bloc">AIFB</a> </td> <td class="fn">Perumal. A. R. M </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,521 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.57% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Dhanushokodi. L. M </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">419 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.42% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ramaraj. K. R. M </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">286 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.29% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Raju. C. M </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">246 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.25% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Alaguraj. A. M </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">212 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.21% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sami. E. V. M </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">176 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.18% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Velchami. R. S. M </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">123 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.12% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Palani. K. M </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">103 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.10% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Margin of victory </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,523 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.73% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.82% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">98,688 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">70.76% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.40% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">141,982 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FF0D0D"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">0.27% </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1984">1984</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: 1984"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1984_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election</a>: Aruppukottai </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#009933; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/M._Pitchai" title="M. Pitchai">M. Pitchai</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>39,839 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>45.32% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FF0D0D; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/V._Thangapandian" title="V. Thangapandian">V. Thangapandian</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36,405 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">41.42% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">E. Pandiperumal </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,809 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.30% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">K. Palan Kudumbar </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">403 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.46% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">G. Ganesa Nadar </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">292 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.33% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">M. Annamalai </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">152 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.17% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Margin of victory </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,434 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.91% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−10.82% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">87,900 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">74.16% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.44% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">123,905 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #009933"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">-8.35% </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1980">1980</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: 1980"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1980_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election</a>: Aruppukottai </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#009933; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/M._Pitchai" title="M. Pitchai">M. Pitchai</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>42,589 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.67% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FF0D0D; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/V._Thangapandian" title="V. Thangapandian">V. Thangapandian</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30,904 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.95% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Karuppiah. K. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,742 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.98% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Palani Kudumbar. K. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">507 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.64% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Karalan. K. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">318 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.40% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Jawahar. K. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">157 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.20% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ramasamy. P. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">130 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.16% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Margin of victory </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,685 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.73% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−23.64% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">79,347 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">68.72% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.19% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">116,985 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #009933"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">-2.56% </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1977">1977</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: 1977"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1977_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election</a>: Aruppukottai </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#009933; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/M._G._Ramachandran" title="M. G. Ramachandran">M. G. Ramachandran</a> (Chief Minister) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>43,065 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>56.23% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #1F75FE; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Janata_Party" title="Janata Party">JP</a> </td> <td class="fn">M. Muthuvel Servai </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,687 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.87% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #00BFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn">A. Sivasamy </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,075 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.77% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #FF0D0D; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">DMK</a> </td> <td class="fn">S.M. Bose </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,415 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.07% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">N. Seenivasan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">645 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.84% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">G. Fitchai </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">550 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.72% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">M. Chidambaram </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">355 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.46% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">V.T.R. Veerappa Gownder </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">276 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.36% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">P. Muthuramalingam </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">202 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.26% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">K. Palani Kundumban </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">164 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.21% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">K. Jawahar </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">76 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.10% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Margin of victory </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29,378 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.36% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24.41% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">76,582 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">68.91% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−8.04% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">112,763 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #009933"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" title="All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">AIADMK</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/All_India_Forward_Bloc" title="All India Forward Bloc">AIFB</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">-0.43% </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1971">1971</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: 1971"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1971_Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election">1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election</a>: Aruppukottai </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#ac1313; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/All_India_Forward_Bloc" title="All India Forward Bloc">AIFB</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Sowdi_Sundara_Bharathi" title="Sowdi Sundara Bharathi">Sowdi Sundara Bharathi</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>37,021 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>56.67% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: Blue; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Swatantra_Party" title="Swatantra Party">SWA</a> </td> <td class="fn">Veerasamy M. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">27,908 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.72% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Senthooranathan S. </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">403 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.62% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Margin of victory </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,113 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13.95% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.69% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">65,332 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">76.95% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.82% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">88,706 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #ac1313"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Forward_Bloc" title="All India Forward Bloc">AIFB</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Swatantra_Party" title="Swatantra Party">SWA</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">1.99% </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1967">1967</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: 1967"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1967_Madras_Legislative_Assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1967 Madras Legislative Assembly election">1967 Madras Legislative Assembly election</a>: Aruppukottai </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:Blue; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Swatantra_Party" title="Swatantra Party">SWA</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/S._S._Bharathi" class="mw-redirect" title="S. S. Bharathi">S. S. Bharathi</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>34,153 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>54.68% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #00BFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn">T. K. Sundarm </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25,012 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.04% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">A. A. Naicker </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">984 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.58% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">S. Ramadoss </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">851 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.36% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">A. Sundararajan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">633 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.01% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">T. Subramaniam </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">480 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.77% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">T. Muthuchamy </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">352 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.56% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Margin of victory </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,141 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.63% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.89% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">62,465 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">80.77% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.55% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">80,866 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: Blue"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Swatantra_Party" title="Swatantra Party">SWA</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">0.13% </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1962">1962</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: 1962"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1962_Madras_Legislative_Assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1962 Madras Legislative Assembly election">1962 Madras Legislative Assembly election</a>: Aruppukottai<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#00BFFF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/T._Kadambavana_Sundaram" title="T. Kadambavana Sundaram">T. Kadambavana Sundaram</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>35,597 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>54.54% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+9.67% </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #ac1313; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/All_India_Forward_Bloc" title="All India Forward Bloc">AIFB</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Sowdi_Sundara_Bharathi" title="Sowdi Sundara Bharathi">S. Sowdi Sundara Bharathi</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28,583 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43.80% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">N. C. Arumugam </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,084 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.66% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Margin of victory </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,014 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.75% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.48% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">65,264 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">80.22% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.02% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">84,282 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #00BFFF"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">-0.59% </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1957">1957</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: 1957"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1957_Madras_Legislative_Assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1957 Madras Legislative Assembly election">1957 Madras Legislative Assembly election</a>: Aruppukottai<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#DCDCDC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/M._D._Ramasami" title="M. D. Ramasami">M. D. Ramasami</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>31,765 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>55.13% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #00BFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <td class="fn">A. V. Thiruppathi </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25,849 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.87% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Margin of victory </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,916 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.27% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.42% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">57,614 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">72.20% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.09% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">79,794 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #DCDCDC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">6.86% </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1952">1952</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aruppukottai_Assembly_constituency&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: 1952"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1952_Madras_Legislative_Assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election">1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election</a>: Aruppukottai<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#00BFFF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">INC</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Jayarama_Reddiar" title="Jayarama Reddiar">Jayarama Reddiar</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>25,521 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>48.27% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">M. D. Ramaswami </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22,427 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.42% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #33CC00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Party_(India)" title="Socialist Party (India)">Socialist</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ethiraju </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,594 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.01% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Kadambiah Chettiar </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,569 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.97% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">S. E. S. Somasundaram Chattiar </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,313 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.48% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Swami Gounder </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">446 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.84% </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Margin of victory </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,094 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.85% </td> <td style="text-align: right; 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constituency">Avanashi</a></dd> <dt>B</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Bargur_Assembly_constituency" title="Bargur Assembly constituency">Bargur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Bhavani_Assembly_constituency" title="Bhavani Assembly constituency">Bhavani</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Bhavanisagar_Assembly_constituency" title="Bhavanisagar Assembly constituency">Bhavanisagar</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Bhuvanagiri_Assembly_constituency" title="Bhuvanagiri Assembly constituency">Bhuvanagiri</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Bodinayakkanur_Assembly_constituency" title="Bodinayakkanur Assembly constituency">Bodinayakkanur</a></dd> <dt>C</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Chengalpattu_Assembly_constituency" title="Chengalpattu Assembly constituency">Chengalpattu</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Chengam_Assembly_constituency" title="Chengam Assembly constituency">Chengam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni_Assembly_constituency" title="Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni Assembly constituency">Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cheyyar_Assembly_constituency" title="Cheyyar Assembly constituency">Cheyyar</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cheyyur_Assembly_constituency" title="Cheyyur Assembly constituency">Cheyyur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Chidambaram_Assembly_constituency" title="Chidambaram Assembly constituency">Chidambaram</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Coimbatore_North_Assembly_constituency" title="Coimbatore North Assembly constituency">Coimbatore North</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Coimbatore_South_Assembly_constituency" title="Coimbatore South Assembly constituency">Coimbatore South</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Colachal_Assembly_constituency" title="Colachal Assembly constituency">Colachal</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Coonoor_Assembly_constituency" title="Coonoor Assembly constituency">Coonoor</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cuddalore_Assembly_constituency" title="Cuddalore Assembly constituency">Cuddalore</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cumbum_Assembly_constituency" title="Cumbum Assembly constituency">Cumbum</a></dd> <dt>D</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Dharapuram_Assembly_constituency" title="Dharapuram Assembly constituency">Dharapuram</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Dharmapuri,_Tamil_Nadu_Assembly_constituency" title="Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu Assembly constituency">Dharmapuri</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Dindigul_Assembly_constituency" title="Dindigul Assembly constituency">Dindigul</a></dd> <dt>E</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Edappadi_Assembly_constituency" title="Edappadi Assembly constituency">Edappadi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Egmore_Assembly_constituency" title="Egmore Assembly constituency">Egmore</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Erode_East_Assembly_constituency" title="Erode East Assembly constituency">Erode East</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Erode_West_Assembly_constituency" title="Erode West Assembly constituency">Erode West</a></dd> <dt>G</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Gandarvakottai_Assembly_constituency" title="Gandarvakottai Assembly constituency">Gandarvakottai</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Gangavalli_Assembly_constituency" title="Gangavalli Assembly constituency">Gangavalli</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Gingee_Assembly_constituency" title="Gingee Assembly constituency">Gingee</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Gobichettipalayam_Assembly_constituency" title="Gobichettipalayam Assembly constituency">Gobichettipalayam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Gudalur_Assembly_constituency" title="Gudalur Assembly constituency">Gudalur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Gudiyatham_Assembly_constituency" title="Gudiyatham Assembly constituency">Gudiyatham</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Gummidipoondi_Assembly_constituency" title="Gummidipoondi Assembly constituency">Gummidipoondi</a></dd> <dt>H</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Harbour_Assembly_constituency" title="Harbour Assembly constituency">Harbour</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Harur_Assembly_constituency" title="Harur Assembly constituency">Harur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Hosur_Assembly_constituency" title="Hosur Assembly constituency">Hosur</a></dd> <dt>J</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Jayankondam_Assembly_constituency" title="Jayankondam Assembly constituency">Jayankondam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Jolarpet_Assembly_constituency" title="Jolarpet Assembly constituency">Jolarpet</a></dd> <dt>K</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kadayanallur_Assembly_constituency" title="Kadayanallur Assembly constituency">Kadayanallur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kalasapakkam_Assembly_constituency" title="Kalasapakkam Assembly constituency">Kalasapakkam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kallakurichi_Assembly_constituency" title="Kallakurichi Assembly constituency">Kallakurichi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kancheepuram_Assembly_constituency" title="Kancheepuram Assembly constituency">Kancheepuram</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kangayam_Assembly_constituency" title="Kangayam Assembly constituency">Kangayam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kanniyakumari_Assembly_constituency" title="Kanniyakumari Assembly constituency">Kanniyakumari</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Karaikudi_Assembly_constituency" title="Karaikudi Assembly constituency">Karaikudi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Karur_Assembly_constituency" title="Karur Assembly constituency">Karur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Katpadi_Assembly_constituency" title="Katpadi Assembly constituency">Katpadi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kattumannarkoil_Assembly_constituency" title="Kattumannarkoil Assembly constituency">Kattumannarkoil</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kavundampalayam_Assembly_constituency" title="Kavundampalayam Assembly constituency">Kavundampalayam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Killiyoor_Assembly_constituency" title="Killiyoor Assembly constituency">Killiyoor</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kilpennathur_Assembly_constituency" title="Kilpennathur Assembly constituency">Kilpennathur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kilvaithinankuppam_Assembly_constituency" title="Kilvaithinankuppam Assembly constituency">Kilvaithinankuppam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kilvelur_Assembly_constituency" title="Kilvelur Assembly constituency">Kilvelur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kinathukadavu_Assembly_constituency" title="Kinathukadavu Assembly constituency">Kinathukadavu</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kolathur_Assembly_constituency" title="Kolathur Assembly constituency">Kolathur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kovilpatti_Assembly_constituency" title="Kovilpatti Assembly constituency">Kovilpatti</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Krishnagiri_Assembly_constituency" title="Krishnagiri Assembly constituency">Krishnagiri</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Krishnarayapuram_Assembly_constituency" title="Krishnarayapuram Assembly constituency">Krishnarayapuram</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kulithalai_Assembly_constituency" title="Kulithalai Assembly constituency">Kulithalai</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kumarapalayam_Assembly_constituency" title="Kumarapalayam Assembly constituency">Kumarapalayam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kumbakonam_Assembly_constituency" title="Kumbakonam Assembly constituency">Kumbakonam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kunnam_Assembly_constituency" title="Kunnam Assembly constituency">Kunnam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kurinjipadi_Assembly_constituency" title="Kurinjipadi Assembly constituency">Kurinjipadi</a></dd> <dt>L</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Lalgudi_Assembly_constituency" title="Lalgudi Assembly constituency">Lalgudi</a></dd> <dt>M</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Madathukulam_Assembly_constituency" title="Madathukulam Assembly constituency">Madathukulam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Madavaram_Assembly_constituency" title="Madavaram Assembly constituency">Madavaram</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Madurai_Central_Assembly_constituency" title="Madurai Central Assembly constituency">Madurai Central</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Madurai_East_Assembly_constituency" title="Madurai East Assembly constituency">Madurai East</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Madurai_North_Assembly_constituency" title="Madurai North Assembly constituency">Madurai North</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Madurai_South_Assembly_constituency" title="Madurai South Assembly constituency">Madurai South</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Madurai_West_Assembly_constituency" title="Madurai West Assembly constituency">Madurai West</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Maduranthakam_Assembly_constituency" title="Maduranthakam Assembly constituency">Maduranthakam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Maduravoyal_Assembly_constituency" title="Maduravoyal Assembly constituency">Maduravoyal</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Mailam_Assembly_constituency" title="Mailam Assembly constituency">Mailam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Manachanallur_Assembly_constituency" title="Manachanallur Assembly constituency">Manachanallur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Manamadurai_Assembly_constituency" title="Manamadurai Assembly constituency">Manamadurai</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Manapparai_Assembly_constituency" title="Manapparai Assembly constituency">Manapparai</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Mannargudi_Assembly_constituency" title="Mannargudi Assembly constituency">Mannargudi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Mayiladuturai_Assembly_constituency" title="Mayiladuturai Assembly constituency">Mayiladuturai</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Melur_Assembly_constituency" title="Melur Assembly constituency">Melur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Mettupalayam_Assembly_constituency" title="Mettupalayam Assembly constituency">Mettupalayam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Mettur_Assembly_constituency" title="Mettur Assembly constituency">Mettur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Modakkurichi_Assembly_constituency" title="Modakkurichi Assembly constituency">Modakkurichi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Mudukulathur_Assembly_constituency" title="Mudukulathur Assembly constituency">Mudukulathur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Musiri_Assembly_constituency" title="Musiri Assembly constituency">Musiri</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Mylapore_Assembly_constituency" title="Mylapore Assembly constituency">Mylapore</a></dd> <dt>N</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Nagapattinam_Assembly_constituency" title="Nagapattinam Assembly constituency">Nagapattinam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Nagercoil_Assembly_constituency" title="Nagercoil Assembly constituency">Nagercoil</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Namakkal_Assembly_constituency" title="Namakkal Assembly constituency">Namakkal</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Nanguneri_Assembly_constituency" title="Nanguneri Assembly constituency">Nanguneri</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Nannilam_Assembly_constituency" title="Nannilam Assembly constituency">Nannilam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Natham_Assembly_constituency" title="Natham Assembly constituency">Natham</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Neyveli_Assembly_constituency" title="Neyveli Assembly constituency">Neyveli</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Nilakottai_Assembly_constituency" title="Nilakottai Assembly constituency">Nilakottai</a></dd> <dt>O</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Oddanchatram_Assembly_constituency" title="Oddanchatram Assembly constituency">Oddanchatram</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Omalur_Assembly_constituency" title="Omalur Assembly constituency">Omalur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Orathanad_Assembly_constituency" title="Orathanad Assembly constituency">Orathanad</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Ottapidaram_Assembly_constituency" title="Ottapidaram Assembly constituency">Ottapidaram</a></dd> <dt>P</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Padmanabhapuram_Assembly_constituency" title="Padmanabhapuram Assembly constituency">Padmanabhapuram</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Palacode_Assembly_constituency" title="Palacode Assembly constituency">Palacode</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Palani_Assembly_constituency" title="Palani Assembly constituency">Palani</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Palayamkottai_Assembly_constituency" title="Palayamkottai Assembly constituency">Palayamkottai</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Palladam_Assembly_constituency" title="Palladam Assembly constituency">Palladam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Pallavaram_Assembly_constituency" title="Pallavaram Assembly constituency">Pallavaram</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Panruti_Assembly_constituency" title="Panruti Assembly constituency">Panruti</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Papanasam_Assembly_constituency" title="Papanasam Assembly constituency">Papanasam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Pappireddipatti_Assembly_constituency" title="Pappireddipatti Assembly constituency">Pappireddipatti</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Paramakudi_Assembly_constituency" title="Paramakudi Assembly constituency">Paramakudi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Paramathi-Velur_Assembly_constituency" title="Paramathi-Velur Assembly constituency">Paramathi-Velur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Pattukkottai_Assembly_constituency" title="Pattukkottai Assembly constituency">Pattukkottai</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Pennagaram_Assembly_constituency" title="Pennagaram Assembly constituency">Pennagaram</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Perambalur_Assembly_constituency" title="Perambalur Assembly constituency">Perambalur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Perambur_Assembly_constituency" title="Perambur Assembly constituency">Perambur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Peravurani_Assembly_constituency" title="Peravurani Assembly constituency">Peravurani</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Periyakulam_Assembly_constituency" title="Periyakulam Assembly constituency">Periyakulam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Perundurai_Assembly_constituency" title="Perundurai Assembly constituency">Perundurai</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Pollachi_Assembly_constituency" title="Pollachi Assembly constituency">Pollachi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Polur_Assembly_constituency" title="Polur Assembly constituency">Polur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Ponneri_Assembly_constituency" title="Ponneri Assembly constituency">Ponneri</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Poompuhar_Assembly_constituency" title="Poompuhar Assembly constituency">Poompuhar</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Poonamallee_Assembly_constituency" title="Poonamallee Assembly constituency">Poonamallee</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Pudukkottai_Assembly_constituency" title="Pudukkottai Assembly constituency">Pudukkottai</a></dd> <dt>R</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Radhakrishnan_Nagar_Assembly_constituency" title="Radhakrishnan Nagar Assembly constituency">Radhakrishnan Nagar</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Radhapuram_Assembly_constituency" title="Radhapuram Assembly constituency">Radhapuram</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Rajapalayam_Assembly_constituency" title="Rajapalayam Assembly constituency">Rajapalayam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Ramanathapuram_Assembly_constituency" title="Ramanathapuram Assembly constituency">Ramanathapuram</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Ranipet_Assembly_constituency" title="Ranipet Assembly constituency">Ranipet</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Rasipuram_Assembly_constituency" title="Rasipuram Assembly constituency">Rasipuram</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Rishivandiyam_Assembly_constituency" title="Rishivandiyam Assembly constituency">Rishivandiyam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Royapuram_Assembly_constituency" title="Royapuram Assembly constituency">Royapuram</a></dd> <dt>S</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Saidapet_Assembly_constituency" title="Saidapet Assembly constituency">Saidapet</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Salem_North_Assembly_constituency" title="Salem North Assembly constituency">Salem North</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Salem_South_Assembly_constituency" title="Salem South Assembly constituency">Salem South</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Salem_West_Assembly_constituency" title="Salem West Assembly constituency">Salem West</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sangagiri_Assembly_constituency" title="Sangagiri Assembly constituency">Sangagiri</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sankarankoil_Assembly_constituency" title="Sankarankoil Assembly constituency">Sankarankoil</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sankarapuram_Assembly_constituency" title="Sankarapuram Assembly constituency">Sankarapuram</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sattur_Assembly_constituency" title="Sattur Assembly constituency">Sattur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Senthamangalam_Assembly_constituency" title="Senthamangalam Assembly constituency">Senthamangalam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sholavandan_Assembly_constituency" title="Sholavandan Assembly constituency">Sholavandan</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sholinganallur_Assembly_constituency" title="Sholinganallur Assembly constituency">Sholinganallur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sholingur_Assembly_constituency" title="Sholingur Assembly constituency">Sholingur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Singanallur_Assembly_constituency" title="Singanallur Assembly constituency">Singanallur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sirkazhi_Assembly_constituency" title="Sirkazhi Assembly constituency">Sirkazhi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sivaganga_Assembly_constituency" title="Sivaganga Assembly constituency">Sivaganga</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sivakasi_Assembly_constituency" title="Sivakasi Assembly constituency">Sivakasi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sriperumbudur_Assembly_constituency" title="Sriperumbudur Assembly constituency">Sriperumbudur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Srirangam_Assembly_constituency" title="Srirangam Assembly constituency">Srirangam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Srivaikuntam_Assembly_constituency" title="Srivaikuntam Assembly constituency">Srivaikuntam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Srivilliputhur_Assembly_constituency" title="Srivilliputhur Assembly constituency">Srivilliputhur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sulur_Assembly_constituency" title="Sulur Assembly constituency">Sulur</a></dd> <dt>T</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tambaram_Assembly_constituency" title="Tambaram Assembly constituency">Tambaram</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tenkasi_Assembly_constituency" title="Tenkasi Assembly constituency">Tenkasi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thalli_Assembly_constituency" title="Thalli Assembly constituency">Thalli</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thanjavur_Assembly_constituency" title="Thanjavur Assembly constituency">Thanjavur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thiru._Vi._Ka._Nagar_Assembly_constituency" title="Thiru. Vi. Ka. Nagar Assembly constituency">Thiru. Vi. Ka. Nagar</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thirumangalam_Assembly_constituency" title="Thirumangalam Assembly constituency">Thirumangalam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thiruparankundram_Assembly_constituency" title="Thiruparankundram Assembly constituency">Thiruparankundram</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thiruporur_Assembly_constituency" title="Thiruporur Assembly constituency">Thiruporur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thiruthuraipoondi_Assembly_constituency" title="Thiruthuraipoondi Assembly constituency">Thiruthuraipoondi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thiruvallur_Assembly_constituency" title="Thiruvallur Assembly constituency">Thiruvallur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thiruverumbur_Assembly_constituency" title="Thiruverumbur Assembly constituency">Thiruverumbur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thiruvidamarudur_Assembly_constituency" title="Thiruvidamarudur Assembly constituency">Thiruvidamarudur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thiruvottiyur_Assembly_constituency" title="Thiruvottiyur Assembly constituency">Thiruvottiyur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thiyagarayanagar_Assembly_constituency" title="Thiyagarayanagar Assembly constituency">Thiyagarayanagar</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thondamuthur_Assembly_constituency" title="Thondamuthur Assembly constituency">Thondamuthur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thoothukkudi_Assembly_constituency" title="Thoothukkudi Assembly constituency">Thoothukkudi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thousand_Lights_Assembly_constituency" title="Thousand Lights Assembly constituency">Thousand Lights</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thuraiyur_Assembly_constituency" title="Thuraiyur Assembly constituency">Thuraiyur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tindivanam_Assembly_constituency" title="Tindivanam Assembly constituency">Tindivanam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tiruchendur_Assembly_constituency" title="Tiruchendur Assembly constituency">Tiruchendur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tiruchengode_Assembly_constituency" title="Tiruchengode Assembly constituency">Tiruchengode</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tiruchirappalli_East_Assembly_constituency" title="Tiruchirappalli East Assembly constituency">Tiruchirappalli East</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tiruchirappalli_West_Assembly_constituency" title="Tiruchirappalli West Assembly constituency">Tiruchirappalli West</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tiruchuli_Assembly_constituency" title="Tiruchuli Assembly constituency">Tiruchuli</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tirukkoyilur_Assembly_constituency" title="Tirukkoyilur Assembly constituency">Tirukkoyilur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tirumayam_Assembly_constituency" title="Tirumayam Assembly constituency">Tirumayam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tirunelveli_Assembly_constituency" title="Tirunelveli Assembly constituency">Tirunelveli</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tiruppattur,_Sivaganga_Assembly_constituency" title="Tiruppattur, Sivaganga Assembly constituency">Tiruppattur, Sivaganga</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tiruppattur,_Vellore_Assembly_constituency" title="Tiruppattur, Vellore Assembly constituency">Tiruppattur, Vellore</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tiruppur_North_Assembly_constituency" title="Tiruppur North Assembly constituency">Tiruppur North</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tiruppur_South_Assembly_constituency" title="Tiruppur South Assembly constituency">Tiruppur South</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tiruttani_Assembly_constituency" title="Tiruttani Assembly constituency">Tiruttani</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tiruvadanai_Assembly_constituency" title="Tiruvadanai Assembly constituency">Tiruvadanai</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tiruvaiyaru_Assembly_constituency" title="Tiruvaiyaru Assembly constituency">Tiruvaiyaru</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tiruvannamalai_Assembly_constituency" title="Tiruvannamalai Assembly constituency">Tiruvannamalai</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tiruvarur_Assembly_constituency" title="Tiruvarur Assembly constituency">Tiruvarur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tittakudi_Assembly_constituency" title="Tittakudi Assembly constituency">Tittakudi</a></dd> <dt>U</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Udagamandalam_Assembly_constituency" title="Udagamandalam Assembly constituency">Udagamandalam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Udumalaipettai_Assembly_constituency" title="Udumalaipettai Assembly constituency">Udumalaipettai</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Ulundurpet_Assembly_constituency" title="Ulundurpet Assembly constituency">Ulundurpet</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Usilampatti_Assembly_constituency" title="Usilampatti Assembly constituency">Usilampatti</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Uthangarai_Assembly_constituency" title="Uthangarai Assembly constituency">Uthangarai</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Uthiramerur_Assembly_constituency" title="Uthiramerur Assembly constituency">Uthiramerur</a></dd> <dt>V</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Valparai_Assembly_constituency" title="Valparai Assembly constituency">Valparai</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Vandavasi_Assembly_constituency" title="Vandavasi Assembly constituency">Vandavasi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Vaniyambadi_Assembly_constituency" title="Vaniyambadi Assembly constituency">Vaniyambadi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Vanur_Assembly_constituency" title="Vanur Assembly constituency">Vanur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Vasudevanallur_Assembly_constituency" title="Vasudevanallur Assembly constituency">Vasudevanallur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Vedaranyam_Assembly_constituency" title="Vedaranyam Assembly constituency">Vedaranyam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Vedasandur_Assembly_constituency" title="Vedasandur Assembly constituency">Vedasandur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Veerapandi_Assembly_constituency" title="Veerapandi Assembly constituency">Veerapandi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Velachery_Assembly_constituency" title="Velachery Assembly constituency">Velachery</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Vellore_Assembly_constituency" title="Vellore Assembly constituency">Vellore</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Veppanahalli_Assembly_constituency" title="Veppanahalli Assembly constituency">Veppanahalli</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Vikravandi_Assembly_constituency" title="Vikravandi Assembly constituency">Vikravandi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Vilathikulam_Assembly_constituency" title="Vilathikulam Assembly constituency">Vilathikulam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Vilavancode_Assembly_constituency" title="Vilavancode Assembly constituency">Vilavancode</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Villivakkam_Assembly_constituency" title="Villivakkam Assembly constituency">Villivakkam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Villupuram_Assembly_constituency" title="Villupuram Assembly constituency">Villupuram</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Viralimalai_Assembly_constituency" title="Viralimalai Assembly constituency">Viralimalai</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Virudhachalam_Assembly_constituency" title="Virudhachalam Assembly constituency">Virudhachalam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Virudhunagar_Assembly_constituency" title="Virudhunagar Assembly constituency">Virudhunagar</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Virugampakkam_Assembly_constituency" title="Virugampakkam Assembly constituency">Virugampakkam</a></dd> <dt>Y</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Yercaud_Assembly_constituency" title="Yercaud Assembly constituency">Yercaud</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dt>A</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Acharapakkam_Assembly_constituency" title="Acharapakkam Assembly constituency">Acharapakkam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Adirampattinam_Assembly_constituency" title="Adirampattinam Assembly constituency">Adirampattinam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Aduthurai_Assembly_constituency" title="Aduthurai Assembly constituency">Aduthurai</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Anamalai_Assembly_constituency" title="Anamalai Assembly constituency">Anamalai</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Andanallur_Assembly_constituency" title="Andanallur Assembly constituency">Andanallur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Andimadam_Assembly_constituency" title="Andimadam Assembly constituency">Andimadam</a></dd> <dt>B</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Basin_Bridge_Assembly_constituency" title="Basin Bridge Assembly constituency">Basin Bridge</a></dd> <dt>C</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Chennimalai_Assembly_constituency" title="Chennimalai Assembly constituency">Chennimalai</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Chepauk_Assembly_constituency" title="Chepauk Assembly constituency">Chepauk</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cheranmadevi_Assembly_constituency" title="Cheranmadevi Assembly constituency">Cheranmadevi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Chinnasalem_Assembly_constituency" title="Chinnasalem Assembly constituency">Chinnasalem</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Coimbatore_East_Assembly_constituency" title="Coimbatore East Assembly constituency">Coimbatore East</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Coimbatore_West_Assembly_constituency" title="Coimbatore West Assembly constituency">Coimbatore West</a></dd> <dt>E</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Erode_Assembly_constituency" title="Erode Assembly constituency">Erode</a></dd> <dt>G</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Gangaikondan_Assembly_constituency" title="Gangaikondan Assembly constituency">Gangaikondan</a></dd> <dt>I</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Ilaiyangudi_Assembly_constituency" title="Ilaiyangudi Assembly constituency">Ilaiyangudi</a></dd> <dt>K</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kabilarmalai_Assembly_constituency" title="Kabilarmalai Assembly constituency">Kabilarmalai</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kadaladi_Assembly_constituency" title="Kadaladi Assembly constituency">Kadaladi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kadambathur_Assembly_constituency" title="Kadambathur Assembly constituency">Kadambathur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kadambur_Assembly_constituency" title="Kadambur Assembly constituency">Kadambur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kadavur_Assembly_constituency" title="Kadavur Assembly constituency">Kadavur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kadayam_Assembly_constituency" title="Kadayam Assembly constituency">Kadayam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kandamangalam_Assembly_constituency" title="Kandamangalam Assembly constituency">Kandamangalam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kaniyambadi_Assembly_constituency" title="Kaniyambadi Assembly constituency">Kaniyambadi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kariapatti_Assembly_constituency" title="Kariapatti Assembly constituency">Kariapatti</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kaveripattinam_Assembly_constituency" title="Kaveripattinam Assembly constituency">Kaveripattinam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kodaikanal_Assembly_constituency" title="Kodaikanal Assembly constituency">Kodaikanal</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kolathur,_Tamil_Nadu_Assembly_constituency" title="Kolathur, Tamil Nadu Assembly constituency">Kolathur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kottur,_Tamil_Nadu_Assembly_constituency" title="Kottur, Tamil Nadu Assembly constituency">Kottur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kovilpalayam_Assembly_constituency" title="Kovilpalayam Assembly constituency">Kovilpalayam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kudavasal_Assembly_constituency" title="Kudavasal Assembly constituency">Kudavasal</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kunnathur,_Tamil_Nadu_Assembly_constituency" title="Kunnathur, Tamil Nadu Assembly constituency">Kunnathur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Kuttalam_Assembly_constituency" title="Kuttalam Assembly constituency">Kuttalam</a></dd> <dt>M</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Mallasamudram_Assembly_constituency" title="Mallasamudram Assembly constituency">Mallasamudram</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Mangalore,_Tamil_Nadu_Assembly_constituency" title="Mangalore, Tamil Nadu Assembly constituency">Mangalore</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Marungapuri_Assembly_constituency" title="Marungapuri Assembly constituency">Marungapuri</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Melapalayam_Assembly_constituency" title="Melapalayam Assembly constituency">Melapalayam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Melmalayanur_Assembly_constituency" title="Melmalayanur Assembly constituency">Melmalayanur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Melur_North_Assembly_constituency" title="Melur North Assembly constituency">Melur North</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Melur_South_Assembly_constituency" title="Melur South Assembly constituency">Melur South</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Morappur_Assembly_constituency" title="Morappur Assembly constituency">Morappur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Mugaiyur_Assembly_constituency" title="Mugaiyur Assembly constituency">Mugaiyur</a></dd> <dt>N</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Nallur_Assembly_constituency" title="Nallur Assembly constituency">Nallur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Nambiyur_Assembly_constituency" title="Nambiyur Assembly constituency">Nambiyur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Natrampalli_Assembly_constituency" title="Natrampalli Assembly constituency">Natrampalli</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Nellikkuppam_Assembly_constituency" title="Nellikkuppam Assembly constituency">Nellikkuppam</a></dd> <dt>P</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Pallipattu_Assembly_constituency" title="Pallipattu Assembly constituency">Pallipattu</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Panamarathupatty_Assembly_constituency" title="Panamarathupatty Assembly constituency">Panamarathupatty</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Panjapatti_Assembly_constituency" title="Panjapatti Assembly constituency">Panjapatti</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Park_Town_Assembly_constituency" title="Park Town Assembly constituency">Park Town</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Peranamallur_Assembly_constituency" title="Peranamallur Assembly constituency">Peranamallur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Pernambut_Assembly_constituency" title="Pernambut Assembly constituency">Pernambut</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Perur_Assembly_constituency" title="Perur Assembly constituency">Perur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Pongalur_Assembly_constituency" title="Pongalur Assembly constituency">Pongalur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Porayar_Assembly_constituency" title="Porayar Assembly constituency">Porayar</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Puliyangudi_Assembly_constituency" title="Puliyangudi Assembly constituency">Puliyangudi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Purasawalkam_Assembly_constituency" title="Purasawalkam Assembly constituency">Purasawalkam</a></dd> <dt>S</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Salem_%E2%80%93_I_Assembly_constituency" title="Salem – I Assembly constituency">Salem – I</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Salem_%E2%80%93_II_Assembly_constituency" title="Salem – II Assembly constituency">Salem – II</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Saliamangalam_Assembly_constituency" title="Saliamangalam Assembly constituency">Saliamangalam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Samayanallur_Assembly_constituency" title="Samayanallur Assembly constituency">Samayanallur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sathankulam_Assembly_constituency" title="Sathankulam Assembly constituency">Sathankulam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sathyamangalam_Assembly_constituency" title="Sathyamangalam Assembly constituency">Sathyamangalam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sedapatti_Assembly_constituency" title="Sedapatti Assembly constituency">Sedapatti</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Sembanarkoil_Assembly_constituency" title="Sembanarkoil Assembly constituency">Sembanarkoil</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/St._Thomas_Mount_Assembly_constituency" title="St. Thomas Mount Assembly constituency">St. Thomas Mount</a></dd> <dt>T</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/T._Palur_Assembly_constituency" title="T. Palur Assembly constituency">T. Palur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Talavasal_Assembly_constituency" title="Talavasal Assembly constituency">Talavasal</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tanippadi_Assembly_constituency" title="Tanippadi Assembly constituency">Tanippadi</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Taramangalam_Assembly_constituency" title="Taramangalam Assembly constituency">Taramangalam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thandarambattu_Assembly_constituency" title="Thandarambattu Assembly constituency">Thandarambattu</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Theni_Assembly_constituency" title="Theni Assembly constituency">Theni</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thiruvattar_Assembly_constituency" title="Thiruvattar Assembly constituency">Thiruvattar</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thiruvonam_Assembly_constituency" title="Thiruvonam Assembly constituency">Thiruvonam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thottiam_Assembly_constituency" title="Thottiam Assembly constituency">Thottiam</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Thurinjapuram_Assembly_constituency" title="Thurinjapuram Assembly constituency">Thurinjapuram</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tiruchirappalli_%E2%80%93_I_Assembly_constituency" title="Tiruchirappalli – I Assembly constituency">Tiruchirappalli – I</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tiruchirappalli_%E2%80%93_II_Assembly_constituency" title="Tiruchirappalli – II Assembly constituency">Tiruchirappalli – II</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tirukostiyur_Assembly_constituency" title="Tirukostiyur Assembly constituency">Tirukostiyur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tirunavalur_Assembly_constituency" title="Tirunavalur Assembly constituency">Tirunavalur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Tiruppur_Assembly_constituency" title="Tiruppur Assembly constituency">Tiruppur</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Triplicane_Assembly_constituency" title="Triplicane Assembly constituency">Triplicane</a></dd> <dt>U</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Uddanapalle_Assembly_constituency" title="Uddanapalle Assembly constituency">Uddanapalle</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Uppiliapuram_Assembly_constituency" 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