Andipatti Assembly constituency

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Andipatti
Constituency No. 198 for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Theni
Lok Sabha constituency	Theni
Established	1962
Total electors	2,78,344[1]
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Incumbent A. Maharajan
Party	DMK
Elected year	2021

Andipatti is a constituency in the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly, that includes the city of Andipatti. It is a part of Theni Lok Sabha constituency. It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu, in India.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Madras State

Assembly	Year	Winner	Party
Third	1962	A. Krishnaveni		Indian National Congress
Fourth	1967	S. Paramasivam		Swatantra Party

Tamil Nadu

Assembly	Year	Winner	Party
Sixth	1977-80	K. Kandasamy		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Seventh	1980-84	S. S. Rajendran
Eighth	1984-87	M. G. Ramachandran
Ninth	1989-91	P. Aasiyan		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Tenth	1991-96	K. Thavasi		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Eleventh	1996-01	P. Aasiyan		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Twelfth	2001-02	Thanga Tamil Selvan		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
	2002-06^	J. Jayalalithaa
Thirteenth	2006-2011
Fourteenth	2011-2016	Thanga Tamil Selvan
Fifteenth	2016-2017
	2019-2021^	A. Maharajan		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Sixteenth	2021-2026

^by-election

Election results

2021

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Andipatti

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	A. Maharajan	93,541	44.93%	8.21%
	AIADMK	A. Logirajan	85,003	40.83%	−11.10%
	AMMK	R. Jeyakumar	11,896	5.71%
	NTK	A. Jeyakumar	11,216	5.39%	4.72%
	MNM	S. Gunasekaran	3,010	1.45%
	NOTA	Nota	1,333	0.64%	−0.32%
Margin of victory			8,538	4.10%	−11.10%
Turnout			2,08,207	74.80%	−3.44%
Rejected ballots			332	0.16%
Registered electors			2,78,344
	DMK hold		Swing	-7.00%

2019 by-election

2019 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly by-elections: Andipatti^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	A. Maharajan	87,079	42.71
	AIADMK	A. Logirajan	74,756	36.66
	AMMK	R. Jeyakumar	28,313	13.89
	NTK	Aruna Devi	5,180	2.54
	MNM	G. Alagarsamy	2,408	1.18
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,246	1.10
Majority			12,323	6.04
Turnout			2,00,837	77.08
Registered electors			2,63,100
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing

2016

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Andipatti

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Thanga Tamil Selvan	103,129	51.93%	−1.82%
	DMK	L. Mookiah	72,933	36.72%	−4.70%
	DMDK	Krishnamoorthy. M. N	10,776	5.43%
	BJP	Chakkaravarthi. R	3,465	1.74%	0.77%
	NOTA	None Of The Above	1,909	0.96%
	NTK	Anandha Babu. M	1,318	0.66%
	Independent	Vaigai Sekar @ Balasundaram. S	1,226	0.62%
	PMK	Ravi. K	817	0.41%
	Independent	Panneerselvam. S	521	0.26%
	AIFB	Senthil Kumar. R.	470	0.24%
	Independent	Murugesan	462	0.23%
Margin of victory			30,196	15.20%	2.88%
Turnout			1,98,609	78.25%	−3.37%
Registered electors			2,53,826
	AIADMK hold		Swing	-1.82%

2011

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Andipatti^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Thanga Tamil Selvan	91,721	53.75%	−1.30%
	DMK	L. Mookiah	70,690	41.42%	5.13%
	BJP	Kumar. R	1,660	0.97%	0.01%
	JMM	Rajapandi. R	1,015	0.59%
	Independent	Pitchaimani S	961	0.56%
	Independent	Mahalingam. U	700	0.41%
	BSP	Easwaran. S	620	0.36%	−0.50%
	Independent	Muthupandi. M	592	0.35%
	Independent	Balakrishnan. R.	517	0.30%
	Independent	Thangamuthu K	322	0.19%
	Independent	Selvakumar M	228	0.13%
Margin of victory			21,031	12.32%	−6.43%
Turnout			2,09,097	81.61%	8.47%
Registered electors			1,70,652
	AIADMK hold		Swing	-1.30%

2006

2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Andipatti^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	J. Jayalalithaa	73,927	55.04%	1.26%
	DMK	Seeman	48,741	36.29%	4.63%
	DMDK	V.S. Chandran	6,795	5.06%
	BJP	Santhakumar. M	1,298	0.97%
	BSP	Balasundararaj . P	1,154	0.86%
	JD(U)	Murugavelrajan. K	389	0.29%
	Independent	Rajamani. S	363	0.27%
	Independent	Jeyaraman R	363	0.27%
	Independent	Raja P	299	0.22%
	Independent	Ramesh. S	282	0.21%
	Independent	Periyasamy G	197	0.15%
Margin of victory			25,186	18.75%	−3.36%
Turnout			1,34,304	73.15%	14.05%
Registered electors			1,83,610
	AIADMK hold		Swing	1.26%

• V.S. Chandran belonged to DMDK, led by actor turned politician Vijaykanth.

2002 by-election

2002 Tamil Nadu assembly by-election: Andipatti

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	J. Jayalalithaa	78,437	58.22	+4.44
	DMK	Vaigai Sekar	37,236	27.64	−4.03
	MDMK	Jayachandran	8,421	6.25	−5.94
Majority
Turnout			1,34,744	64.60
	AIADMK hold		Swing

2001

2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Andipatti^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Thanga Tamil Selvan	60,817	53.78%	21.01%
	DMK	Aasiyan. P	35,808	31.67%	−13.23%
	MDMK	Varatharajan. T. R. M	13,783	12.19%	−3.32%
	Independent	Jayarasu. S	1,048	0.93%
	Independent	Mooventhan. A	405	0.36%
	Independent	Elambirai. G	395	0.35%
	Independent	Muthuvel. S	245	0.22%
	Independent	Duraichamy. S	207	0.18%
	Independent	Maharajan. A	189	0.17%
	Independent	Chinnakkalai. R	183	0.16%
Margin of victory			25,009	22.12%	9.99%
Turnout			1,13,080	59.10%	−7.47%
Registered electors			1,91,451
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	8.88%

1996

1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Andipatti^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	L. Mookaiah	50,736	44.90%	21.73%
	AIADMK	Muthiah. A.	37,035	32.77%	−31.47%
	MDMK	Sekar @ Balasundaram	17,521	15.51%
	PMK	Vadivelravanan	5,299	4.69%
	BJP	Ganesan. R.	1,618	1.43%	−0.81%
	Independent	Ramasamy. K.	314	0.28%
	Independent	Servaikarathevar. K.	106	0.09%
	Independent	Thirumoorthy. A. V. P.	104	0.09%
	Independent	Chinnamuniyandi. K.	100	0.09%
	Independent	Ravindran. G.	89	0.08%
	Independent	Malairajan. G.	44	0.04%
Margin of victory			13,701	12.12%	−28.95%
Turnout			1,13,000	66.57%	5.58%
Registered electors			1,75,815
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-19.35%

1991

1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Andipatti^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Thavasi K.	66,110	64.25%	38.74%
	DMK	Asaiyan P.	23,843	23.17%	−6.33%
	PMK	Gomathi Ammal R.	10,133	9.85%
	BJP	Tajappan K. P.	2,302	2.24%
	THMM	Subramanian A.	171	0.17%
	Independent	Maniah P. N. S.	90	0.09%
	Independent	Ramasamy K.	86	0.08%
	Independent	Subbiyan P.	81	0.08%
	Independent	Raveendran G.	41	0.04%
	Independent	Muthusamy S.	40	0.04%
Margin of victory			42,267	41.08%	37.09%
Turnout			1,02,897	60.99%	−9.92%
Registered electors			1,72,603
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	34.75%

1989

1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Andipatti^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	L. Mookaiah	31,218	29.50%	−1.72%
	AIADMK	Panneerselvam. V.	26,997	25.51%	−41.89%
	AIADMK	V. N. Janaki Ramachandran	22,647	21.40%	−46.00%
	INC	Velusamy. K.	21,782	20.58%
	Independent	Rajappan. K.P.	1,890	1.79%
	Independent	Veerapandi. M.	355	0.34%
	Independent	Karuthapandian. T.K.	264	0.25%
	Independent	Sreedharan. M.S.	196	0.19%
	Independent	Raveenthiran. G.	158	0.15%
	Independent	Servi Karath Thavar. K.	151	0.14%
	Independent	Ragavel Naidu. P.	96	0.09%
Margin of victory			4,221	3.99%	−32.19%
Turnout			1,05,835	70.91%	0.93%
Registered electors			1,52,247
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-37.90%

1984

1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Andipatti^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	M. G. Ramachandran	60,510	67.40%	7.61%
	DMK	Thangaraj Alias Vallarasu	28,026	31.22%
	Independent	Jc (Janaki) J. S. Krishnan	402	0.45%
	Independent	K. Puyal Ponnaiah	384	0.43%
	Independent	T. K. Karuthapandian	274	0.31%
	Independent	E. Perumal Thevar	108	0.12%
	Independent	V. T. R. Veerappa Gounder	77	0.09%
Margin of victory			32,484	36.18%	−1.42%
Turnout			89,781	69.98%	10.49%
Registered electors			1,33,117
	AIADMK hold		Swing	7.61%

1980

1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Andipatti^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Rajendran. S. S.	44,490	59.79%	25.38%
	INC	Kandasamy. K.	16,508	22.18%
	JP	Gurusamy. N. V.	9,889	13.29%
	Independent	Vetriventhan. A.	3,073	4.13%
	Independent	Muthusamy. S.	455	0.61%
Margin of victory			27,982	37.60%	26.22%
Turnout			74,415	59.49%	−2.70%
Registered electors			1,26,984
	AIADMK hold		Swing	25.38%

1977

1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Andipatti^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	K. Kandasamy	24,311	34.41%
	JP	N.V. Gurusamy	16,269	23.03%
	DMK	A. Vetriventhan	15,814	22.38%
	CPI	D. Pandian	14,255	20.18%
Margin of victory			8,042	11.38%	4.16%
Turnout			70,649	62.19%	−0.94%
Registered electors			1,15,363
	AIADMK gain from SWA		Swing	-1.96%

1971

1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Andipatti^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SWA	N. V. Gurusamy Naidu	20,814	36.37%
	AIFB	Paramasivam S.	16,682	29.15%
	Independent	Veluchamy Naicker K. V.	15,469	27.03%
	Independent	Das Muthu Gounder T.	4,260	7.44%
Margin of victory			4,132	7.22%	−2.49%
Turnout			57,225	63.13%	−10.99%
Registered electors			99,654
	SWA hold		Swing	-18.48%

1967

1967 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Andipatti^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SWA	S. Paramasivam	35,351	54.86%
	INC	A. Thiruvenkidasamy	29,091	45.14%	−0.54%
Margin of victory			6,260	9.71%	1.95%
Turnout			64,442	74.12%	23.35%
Registered electors			89,623
	SWA gain from INC		Swing	9.18%

1962

1962 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Andipatti^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	A. Krishnaveni	19,853	45.68%
		T. Mokkayan	16,478	37.91%
	Independent	P. Selvaraju	5,201	11.97%
	Independent	A. Kulandaivelu	1,929	4.44%
Margin of victory			3,375	7.77%
Turnout			43,461	50.77%
Registered electors			90,409
	INC win (new seat)