Ariyalur Assembly constituency

11°8′14″N 79°4′40″E

Ariyalur
Constituency No. 149 for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Ariyalur
Lok Sabha constituency	Chidambaram
Established	1951
Total electors	2,64,971[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Incumbent K. Chinnappa
Party	DMK
Elected year	2021

Ariyalur is a legislative assembly, that includes the city of Ariyalur. Its State Assembly Constituency number is 149. Until 2006, Ariyalur Assembly constituency was part of Perambalur Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2006, it has been a part of Chidambaram Lok Sabha constituency.^[2][3] It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu, in India.

History

From the 1977 elections, the assembly seat was won by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) three times during the 1977, 1980 and 1989 elections, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) two times during the 2001 and 2011 elections, Indian National Congress once during 2006 and Tamil Maanila Congress once during the 1996 elections.^[4] In 2016 Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) of the constituency was Thamarai S.Rajendran from the AIADMK Party.^[5] The current MLA since 2021 has been K. Chinnappa from DMK.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Madras State

Assembly	Duration	Winner	Party
First	1952-57	Palaniandi		Independent
Second	1957-62	Ramalinga Padayachi		Indian National Congress
Third	1962-67	R. Narayanan		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Fourth	1967-71	R. Karuppiam		Indian National Congress

Tamil Nadu

Assembly	Duration	Winner	Party
Fifth	1971-77	G. Sivaperumal		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Sixth	1977-80	T. Arumugam		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Seventh	1980-84	T. Arumugam		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Eighth	1984-89	S. Purushothaman		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Ninth	1989-91	T. Arumugam		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Tenth	1991-96	S. Manimegalai		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Eleventh	1996-01	D. Amaramoorthy		Tamil Maanila Congress
Twelfth	2001-06	P. Elavazhagan		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Thirteenth	2006-2011	D. Amaramoorthy		Indian National Congress
Fourteenth	2011-2016	Durai. Manivel		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Fifteenth	2016-2021	S. Rajendran		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Sixteenth	2021-Incumbent	K. Chinnappa		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election results

2021

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Ariyalur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	K. Chinnappa	103,975	46.45%	5.48%
	AIADMK	Rajendran. S	1,00,741	45.01%	3.07%
	NTK	Suguna Kumar	12,346	5.52%	4.97%
	AMMK	Durai. Manivel	2,044	0.91%
	NOTA	Nota	1,389	0.62%	−0.28%
Margin of victory			3,234	1.44%	0.48%
Turnout			2,23,839	84.48%	−0.45%
Rejected ballots			567	0.25%
Registered electors			2,64,971
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	4.51%

2016

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Ariyalur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Rajendran. S	88,523	41.94%	−5.83%
	DMK	Sivasankar. S. S	86,480	40.97%
	DMDK	Jayavel. Rama	13,599	6.44%
	PMK	Thirumavalavan. K	13,529	6.41%
	NOTA	None Of The Above	1,896	0.90%
	Independent	Vijayakumar. R	1,348	0.64%
	IJK	Baskar. C	1,330	0.63%
	NTK	Manikkam. T	1,146	0.54%
	Independent	Veeramani. T	995	0.47%
	BSP	Savarianandham. V	675	0.32%	−0.90%
	Independent	Pazhanivel. P	577	0.27%
Margin of victory			2,043	0.97%	−8.63%
Turnout			2,11,078	84.93%	0.11%
Registered electors			2,48,541
	AIADMK hold		Swing	-5.83%

2011

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Ariyalur^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Durai. Manivel	88,726	47.77%	5.57%
	INC	D. Amaramoorthy	70,906	38.17%	−7.19%
	IJK	Baskar C	9,501	5.11%
	Independent	Panneerselvam R	7,099	3.82%
	BJP	Abirami P	2,981	1.60%	0.77%
	Independent	Muruganantham T	2,640	1.42%
	BSP	Neelamegam K	2,267	1.22%	0.43%
	Independent	Muthusami M K	1,629	0.88%
Margin of victory			17,820	9.59%	6.43%
Turnout			2,18,992	84.82%	4.01%
Registered electors			1,85,749
	AIADMK gain from INC		Swing	2.40%

2006

2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Ariyalur^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	D. Amaramoorthy	60,089	45.36%
	AIADMK	Ravichandran. M	55,895	42.20%	1.17%
	DMDK	Jayavel. Rama	8,630	6.52%
	Independent	Mariyappan. K	2,936	2.22%
	BJP	Sekar. K	1,111	0.84%
	BSP	Samidurai. M	1,041	0.79%
	Independent	Sukumar. G	782	0.59%
	Independent	Chandrasekar. S. M	768	0.58%
	Independent	Senthil @ Senthil Kumar. V	629	0.47%
	Independent	Maheshkumar. N	579	0.44%
Margin of victory			4,194	3.17%	−4.92%
Turnout			1,32,460	80.81%	10.45%
Registered electors			1,63,907
	INC gain from AIADMK		Swing	4.33%

2001

2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Ariyalur^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Elavazhagan. P.	52,676	41.03%	9.14%
	DMK	Kathiravan. T. A.	42,297	32.95%
	Independent	Punnyamoorthy. D.	20,399	15.89%
	MDMK	Chinnappa. K.	10,121	7.88%	−2.53%
	Independent	Maheshkumaran. N.	2,891	2.25%
Margin of victory			10,379	8.08%	−13.22%
Turnout			1,28,384	70.37%	−8.18%
Registered electors			1,82,450
	AIADMK gain from TMC(M)		Swing	-12.16%

1996

1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Ariyalur^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TMC(M)	D. Amaramoorthy	62,157	53.19%
	AIADMK	Elavarasan. A.	37,263	31.89%	−25.11%
	MDMK	Chinnappah. K.	12,163	10.41%
	PMK	Raja. P.	2,926	2.50%
	BJP	Ayyarappan. G.	1,060	0.91%	0.24%
	Independent	Panneerselvam. M.	804	0.69%
	Independent	Nedumaran. A.	147	0.13%
	Independent	Kaliyaperumal. S.	135	0.12%
	Independent	Paramasivam. K.	103	0.09%
	Independent	Murugesan. K.	96	0.08%
Margin of victory			24,894	21.30%	0.92%
Turnout			1,16,854	78.55%	2.44%
Registered electors			1,59,636
	TMC(M) gain from AIADMK		Swing	-3.81%

1991

1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Ariyalur^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Manimegalai S.	64,680	57.00%	30.08%
	DMK	Chinnappa K.	41,551	36.62%	−6.98%
	PMK	Arivalagan R.	5,744	5.06%
	BJP	A. Karuppaiah N.	755	0.67%
	Independent	Chandrasekar M.	302	0.27%
	Independent	Kathiaresan K. P.	269	0.24%
	Independent	Samivelu A.	173	0.15%
Margin of victory			23,129	20.38%	3.71%
Turnout			1,13,474	76.11%	−5.33%
Registered electors			1,54,420
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	13.40%

1989

1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Ariyalur^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	T. Arumugam	47,353	43.60%	3.49%
	AIADMK	Elavazhagan P.	29,242	26.92%	−31.44%
	INC	Swamynathan T. K. S.	21,247	19.56%
	AIADMK	Ganesan P.	10,507	9.67%	−48.69%
	Independent	Abaranji C.	258	0.24%
Margin of victory			18,111	16.68%	−1.58%
Turnout			1,08,607	81.45%	−1.12%
Registered electors			1,36,145
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-14.76%

1984

1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Ariyalur^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	S. Purushothaman	56,815	58.36%	16.34%
	DMK	T. Arumugam	39,045	40.11%	−12.42%
	Independent	T. K. Thangavel	996	1.02%
	Independent	A. S. Rathinam	497	0.51%
Margin of victory			17,770	18.25%	7.74%
Turnout			97,353	82.57%	6.48%
Registered electors			1,22,373
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	5.83%

1980

1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Ariyalur^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	T. Arumugam	45,980	52.53%	12.80%
	AIADMK	Asokan.	36,776	42.01%	3.88%
	Independent	Aramirdham. A. S.	3,695	4.22%
	Independent	Ganesan. A.	738	0.84%
	Independent	Murugesan. K.	342	0.39%
Margin of victory			9,204	10.52%	8.93%
Turnout			87,531	76.09%	1.34%
Registered electors			1,16,590
	DMK hold		Swing	12.80%

1977

1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Ariyalur^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	T. Arumugam	31,380	39.73%	−24.45%
	AIADMK	Karuppiah Alias Asokan	30,125	38.14%
	INC	G. Srinivasan	12,359	15.65%	−14.56%
	JP	T. Natarajan	3,781	4.79%
	Independent	R. Krishnasamy	1,131	1.43%
	Independent	A.P. Munisamy	213	0.27%
Margin of victory			1,255	1.59%	−32.39%
Turnout			78,989	74.75%	−6.68%
Registered electors			1,07,638
	DMK hold		Swing	-24.45%

1971

1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Ariyalur^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	G. Sivaperumal	48,320	64.18%	28.82%
	INC	R. Sambasivam Moopanar	22,740	30.20%	−7.17%
	Independent	M. Ganesan	3,535	4.70%
	Independent	P. K. Thirunavukkarasu	692	0.92%
Margin of victory			25,580	33.98%	31.97%
Turnout			75,287	81.43%	−1.72%
Registered electors			96,537
	DMK gain from INC		Swing	26.81%

1967

1967 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Ariyalur^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	R. Karuppiam	26,440	37.37%	10.10%
	DMK	G. Sepperumal	25,017	35.36%	−28.98%
	Independent	S. Ramasami	19,294	27.27%
Margin of victory			1,423	2.01%	−35.06%
Turnout			70,751	83.15%	13.57%
Registered electors			89,136
	INC gain from DMK		Swing	-26.97%

1962

1962 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Ariyalur^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	R. Narayanan	41,721	64.34%
	INC	R. Viswanathan	17,681	27.27%	−0.17%
	TNP	M. Vadivel	3,095	4.77%
	Independent	A. Balakrishnan	2,346	3.62%
Margin of victory			24,040	37.07%	33.95%
Turnout			64,843	69.58%	22.52%
Registered electors			96,922
	DMK gain from INC		Swing	36.90%

1957

1957 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Ariyalur^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ramalinga Padayachi	11,741	27.44%	1.95%
	Independent	Narayanan	10,404	24.31%
	Independent	Haji Abdul Kadir Jamali	6,992	16.34%
	Independent	Dhanaraj	4,797	11.21%
	Independent	Manickam	3,069	7.17%
	Independent	Arasan	2,640	6.17%
	Independent	Thangavelu	2,154	5.03%
	Independent	Vadivelu	992	2.32%
Margin of victory			1,337	3.12%	−0.48%
Turnout			42,789	47.06%	−12.47%
Registered electors			90,932
	INC gain from Independent		Swing	-1.65%

1952

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Ariyalur^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Palaniandi	11,422	29.09%
	INC	Razar	10,007	25.49%	25.49%
	Independent	Shanmughasundara Mudaliar	8,289	21.11%
	Independent	Muthuswamy	8,141	20.74%
	Independent	Periaswami Padyachi	1,403	3.57%
Margin of victory			1,415	3.60%
Turnout			39,262	59.53%
Registered electors			65,957
	Independent win (new seat)