Aruppukottai Assembly constituency

Aruppukottai
Aruppukottai
Constituency No. 207 for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Tamil Nadu
Lok Sabha constituency	Virudhunagar
Established	1951
Total electors	223,820
Member of Legislative Assembly
	16th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran
Party	DMK
Elected year	2021

Aruppukottai is a legislative assembly in Virudhunagar district, which includes the city, Aruppukkottai.^[1] It is a part of Virudhunagar Lok Sabha constituency. This is the constituency, held by popular actor-turned politician, M. G. Ramachandran, when he first became Chief Minister in the 1977 assembly elections. It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu, in India.

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The Chettiyar (all kinds - mostly Devanger) community is the biggest community in this constituency with around 13% population.

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.

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.

[1]

Year	Winner
1952	Jayarama Reddiar	Indian National Congress
1957	M. D. Ramasami	Independent
1962	T. Kadambavana Sundaram	Indian National Congress
1967	S. S. Bharathi	Swatantra Party

Assembly	Duration	Winner
Fifth	1971-1977	Sowdi Sundara Bharathi	All India Forward Bloc
Sixth	1977-1980	M. G. Ramachandran	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Seventh	1980-1984	M. Pitchai
Eighth	1984-1989	M. Pitchai
Ninth	1989-1991	V. Thangapandian	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Tenth	1991-1996	V. G. Manimeghalai	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Eleventh	1996-1998	V. Thangapandian	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Eleventh	1998-2001	Thangam Thenarasu	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Twelfth	2001-2006	K. K. Sivasamy	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Thirteenth	2006-2011	Thangam Thennarusu	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Fourteenth	2011-2016	Vaigaichelvan	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Fifteenth	2016-2021	K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Sixteenth	2021-Incumbent	K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Vote share of winning candidates

2021			53.18%
2016			49.41%
2011			51.15%
2006			44.88%
2001			46.07%
1996			43.70%
1991			58.91%
1989			45.59%
1984			45.32%
1980			53.67%
1977			56.23%
1971			56.67%
1967			54.68%
1962			54.54%
1957			55.13%
1952			48.27%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran	91,040	53.18%
	AIADMK	Vaigaichelvan	52,006	30.38%
	NTK	Uma	12,392	7.24%	New
	MNM	V. Umadevi	7,638	4.46%	New
	DMDK	R. Ramesh	2,532	1.48%
	NOTA	Nota	1,323	0.77%
Margin of victory			39,034	22.80%	11.85%
Turnout			171,201	76.49%	−2.68%
Registered electors			223,820
	DMK hold		Swing	3.77%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran	81,485	49.41%
	AIADMK	Vaigaichelvan	63,431	38.46%
	CPI	Senthil Kumar. S	9,817	5.95%
	BJP	Vetrivel. R	3,223	1.95%	New
	NOTA	None Of The Above	2,509	1.52%
	NTK	Nagendran.	1,404	0.85%	New
	PMK	Aravindkumar. D	817	0.50%	New
	Independent	Lingappandi. P.	699	0.42%	New
	BSP	Sundarraj. I	388	0.24%	New
	Independent	Muthumariappan. M.	262	0.16%	New
	Independent	Vijayakumar. G.	225	0.14%	New
Margin of victory			18,054	10.95%	3.84%
Turnout			164,909	79.17%	−4.18%
Registered electors			208,309
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-1.74%

Aruppukottai Assembly constituency

History

Members of Legislative Assembly

Madras State

Tamil Nadu

Election results

2021

2016

2011

2006

2001

1997-1998 by-election

1996

1991

1989

1984

1980

1977

1971

1967

1962

1957

1952

References

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2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Aruppukottai
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Vaigaichelvan	76,546	51.15%
	DMK	K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran	65,908	44.05%
	BJP	Vetrivel. R	1,966	1.31%
	Independent	Jegan	1,009	0.67%	New
	Independent	Nagarajan. K	747	0.50%	New
	Independent	Kalaiselvan. S	696	0.47%	New
	BSP	Kandasamy. K	640	0.43%	New
	Independent	Murugan. R	445	0.30%	New
	Independent	Perumalsamy. S	378	0.25%	New
	Independent	Sivasubramanian. M	325	0.22%	New
	Independent	Ganesan. P	230	0.15%	New
Margin of victory			10,638	7.11%	0.00%
Turnout			179,531	83.35%	11.69%
Registered electors			149,637
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	6.28%

2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Aruppukottai
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Thangam Thenarasu	52,002	44.88%
	AIADMK	Murugan. K	43,768	37.77%
	DMDK	Bharathi Thasan. A	13,836	11.94%
	AIFB	Krishna Ghandhi. P.	2,234	1.93%
	BJP	Chella Durai Pandian. E	1,193	1.03%
	Independent	Mannan. K	665	0.57%	New
	Independent	Maruthupandi. R	472	0.41%	New
	Independent	Samyraj. A	461	0.40%	New
	Independent	Periyasamy. A.	370	0.32%	New
	Independent	Karuppaiah. V.	325	0.28%	New
	Independent	Kanniah Thevar. M	295	0.25%	New
Margin of victory			8,234	7.11%	1.36%
Turnout			115,875	71.66%	9.32%
Registered electors			161,711
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-1.19%

2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Aruppukottai
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	K. K. Sivasamy	49,307	46.07%
	DMK	Thangam Thenarasu	43,155	40.32%
	MDMK	Shanmuga Sundaram R. M.	10,558	9.86%
	Independent	Venkatesan A	960	0.90%
	Independent	Rajagopalan R	822	0.77%
	Independent	Regunathan C	775	0.72%
	Independent	Murugan S	622	0.58%
	Independent	Murugan R	255	0.24%
	Independent	Shanmugavel K	162	0.15%
	Independent	Periasamy A	157	0.15%
	Independent	Subramanian R	141	0.13%
Margin of victory			6,152	5.75%	−10.11%
Turnout			107,026	62.33%	−5.97%
Registered electors			171,719
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	2.37%

1997–98 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly by-elections: Aruppukottai
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DMK	Thangam Thenarasu	40,223	36.5%
	AIADMK	V.S. Panchavarnam	38,272	89.40
	PT	P.T. Manickam	12,484	11.3%
	Independent	K. Palaniswamy	9,525	8.6%
	INC	K. Chandran	1,329	1.2%
Majority			1,951	1.8%
Turnout			110,183	65.9%
	DMK hold		Swing