Bhavani Assembly constituency

Bhavani is a state assembly constituency in Erode district in Tamil Nadu.^[2] Its State Assembly Constituency number is 104. It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu, in India.

Bhavani
Constituency No. 104 for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Erode
Lok Sabha constituency	Tiruppur
Established	1951
Total electors	2,38,667[1]
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Incumbent K. C. Karuppannan
Party	AIADMK
Elected year	2021

It covers Bhavani and some parts of Erode City.

It is included in Tiruppur Lok Sabha constituency.^[3]

Demographics

The constituency has a significant number of Vanniyar, Kongu Vellalar Gounder, and Senguntha Mudaliar, Reddiyar and Adi Dravida communities.^[4]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Madras State

Year	Winner	Party
1952	B. K. Nallaswami		Indian National Congress
1957	G. G. Gurumurthi and P. G. Manickam
1962	N. K. Ranganayaki
1967	A. M. Raja		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Tamil Nadu

Year	Winner	Party
1971	A. M. Raja		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1977	M. R. Soundarrajan		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1980	P. G. Narayanan
1984
1989	G. G. Gurumoorthy		Independent politician
1991	S. Muthusamy		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1996	S. N. Balasubramanian		Tamil Maanila Congress
2001	K. C. Karuppannan		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2006	R. V. Ramanathan		Pattali Makkal Katchi
2011	P. G. Narayanan		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2016	K. C. Karuppannan
2021

Election results

2021

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Bhavani

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	K. C. Karuppannan	100,915	50.10%	4.72%
	DMK	Durairaj. K. P	78,392	38.92%	6.71%
	NTK	Sathya. M	10,471	5.20%	4.25%
	MNM	Sadhanandham. K	4,221	2.10%
	NOTA	Nota	2,079	1.03%	−0.41%
	Independent	Satheesh Kumar. P	1,224	0.61%
Margin of victory			22,523	11.18%	−1.99%
Turnout			2,01,433	84.40%	1.55%
Rejected ballots			69	0.03%
Registered electors			2,38,667
	AIADMK hold		Swing	4.72%

2016

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Bhavani

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	K. C. Karuppannan	85,748	45.38%	−8.90%
	DMK	Sivakumar N	60,861	32.21%
	PMK	Ramanathan K V	20,727	10.97%
	DMDK	Gopal P	6,927	3.67%
	KMDK	Chandrasekar S	4,389	2.32%
	NOTA	None Of The Above	2,716	1.44%
	BJP	Shithivinayagan K A	2,480	1.31%	−0.83%
	NTK	Seethalakshmi M K	1,784	0.94%
	INMMK	Ponnudurai P	608	0.32%
	BSP	Baladhandapani V S	560	0.30%	−0.37%
	GMI	Ramasamy S	527	0.28%
Margin of victory			24,887	13.17%	−4.30%
Turnout			1,88,950	82.85%	1.03%
Registered electors			2,28,069
	AIADMK hold		Swing	-8.90%

2011

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Bhavani^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Narayanan. P. G	87,121	54.28%	16.77%
	PMK	Mahendran. K. S	59,080	36.81%
	BJP	Shithi Vinayagan. K. A	3,432	2.14%	0.58%
	Loktantrik Samajwadi Party	Kumar. M	1,534	0.96%
	Independent	Venkatachalam. K	1,325	0.83%
	Independent	Sathiya D	1,270	0.79%
	Independent	Saravanan. K	1,236	0.77%
	BSP	Thangarasu. S	1,065	0.66%	−0.10%
	Independent	Ananthamoorthy. S	980	0.61%
	Independent	Ravi. A	954	0.59%
	Independent	Palanisamy. M	904	0.56%
Margin of victory			28,041	17.47%	13.44%
Turnout			1,96,163	81.82%	7.22%
Registered electors			1,60,496
	AIADMK gain from PMK		Swing	12.74%

2006

2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Bhavani^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PMK	K V Ramanathan	52,603	41.55%
	AIADMK	K. C. Karuppannan	47,500	37.52%	−20.68%
	DMDK	Gopal. P	17,001	13.43%
	BJP	Palanisamy K. A. P	1,971	1.56%
	Independent	Aruljothi. P. K	1,549	1.22%
	Independent	Perumal. V. M	1,540	1.22%
	Independent	Rangasamy. P	1,087	0.86%
	BSP	Kandasamy. S. K	971	0.77%
	Independent	Raju. E	969	0.77%
	Independent	Perumal. C	632	0.50%
	Independent	Thiyagarajan. M	351	0.28%
Margin of victory			5,103	4.03%	−25.66%
Turnout			1,26,612	74.60%	13.84%
Registered electors			1,69,720
	PMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-16.65%

2001

2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Bhavani^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	K. C. Karuppannan	64,405	58.20%	32.76%
	PNK	Sudhanandhen. J.	31,546	28.50%
	MDMK	Thiyagarajan. S. K.	8,921	8.06%
	Independent	Velmurugan. V. N.	2,305	2.08%
	Independent	Karuppusamy. M.	1,159	1.05%
	JD(S)	Arumugham. C. M.	825	0.75%
	Independent	Perumal. V. M.	595	0.54%
	Independent	Paramasivam. S. L.	534	0.48%
	Independent	Palani. M.	381	0.34%
Margin of victory			32,859	29.69%	3.90%
Turnout			1,10,671	60.76%	−11.56%
Registered electors			1,82,155
	AIADMK gain from TMC(M)		Swing	6.97%

1996

1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Bhavani^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TMC(M)	Balasubramanian. S. N.	57,256	51.23%
	AIADMK	Manivannan. K. S.	28,427	25.43%	−35.81%
	PMK	Venkatachalam. M. P.	18,768	16.79%
	CPI(M)	Palanisamy. P.	4,216	3.77%
	Independent	Nallasamy. A. M.	758	0.68%
	Independent	Subramanian. N.	432	0.39%
	Independent	Vinayagamoorthy. E.	367	0.33%
	Independent	Sathiyamoorthy. K. S.	325	0.29%
	Independent	Paulraj. B.	294	0.26%
	Independent	Mohanaraj. S.	231	0.21%
	Independent	Siva. A.	160	0.14%
Margin of victory			28,829	25.79%	−14.61%
Turnout			1,11,769	72.31%	4.11%
Registered electors			1,62,004
	TMC(M) gain from AIADMK		Swing	-10.02%

1991

1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Bhavani^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	S. Muthusamy	61,337	61.24%	50.66%
	DMK	Duraisamy M. C.	20,867	20.84%	−1.80%
	PMK	Ramanathan V. V.	16,358	16.33%
	THMM	Neelagandan S.	378	0.38%
	Independent	Peetharan K. M.	305	0.30%
	Independent	Thangavelu K. G.	159	0.16%
	Independent	Veerappa Gounder V. T. R.	128	0.13%
	Independent	Ganesan K. N.	110	0.11%
	Independent	Venkatachalam V. N.	103	0.10%
	Independent	Murugesan B. M.	101	0.10%
	Independent	Venkatesan P.	96	0.10%
Margin of victory			40,470	40.41%	20.86%
Turnout			1,00,153	68.21%	5.51%
Registered electors			1,51,501
	AIADMK gain from Independent		Swing	19.06%

1989

1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Bhavani^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	G.G. Gurumoorthy	36,371	42.18%
	DMK	P.S. Kiruttinasamy	19,518	22.64%	−13.29%
	INC	S.N. Balasubramanian	19,291	22.37%
	AIADMK	P.N. Govindan	9,125	10.58%	−52.72%
	Independent	K. Palanisamy	586	0.68%
	Independent	P. Chandrasekaran	283	0.33%
	Independent	K.M. Petharan	278	0.32%
	Independent	P.L. Siddha Gounder	130	0.15%
	Independent	P.S. Palanisamy	118	0.14%
	Independent	T.G. Ranganathan	116	0.13%
	Independent	S.A. Subramanian	107	0.12%
Margin of victory			16,853	19.55%	−7.83%
Turnout			86,226	62.69%	−14.57%
Registered electors			1,40,948
	Independent gain from AIADMK		Swing	-21.12%

1984

1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Bhavani^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	P. G. Narayanan	58,350	63.30%	2.42%
	DMK	N. K. K. Periasmy	33,116	35.93%
	Independent	M. N. Krishnaswamy	709	0.77%
Margin of victory			25,234	27.38%	−1.89%
Turnout			92,175	77.26%	15.69%
Registered electors			1,24,086
	AIADMK hold		Swing	2.42%

1980

1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Bhavani^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Narayanan. P. G.	44,152	60.89%	29.48%
	INC	Madeswaran. M. P. V.	22,926	31.61%	8.48%
	JP	Manickam. N.	4,719	6.51%
	Independent	Chitha Gounder. E.	720	0.99%
Margin of victory			21,226	29.27%	23.84%
Turnout			72,517	61.57%	−5.13%
Registered electors			1,19,674
	AIADMK hold		Swing	29.48%

1977

1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Bhavani^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	M.R. Soundarrajan	22,989	31.41%
	JP	G. Gurumoorthy	19,013	25.98%
	INC	S.N. Balasubramaniam	16,931	23.13%	−16.13%
	DMK	N.K.K. Periasamy	14,258	19.48%	−39.88%
Margin of victory			3,976	5.43%	−14.67%
Turnout			73,191	66.70%	−2.33%
Registered electors			1,11,262
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	-27.95%

1971

1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Bhavani^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	A. M. Raja	38,527	59.36%	−5.80%
	INC	P. Kuppusamy Mudaliar	25,480	39.26%	6.19%
	Independent	P. Manickkam	893	1.38%
Margin of victory			13,047	20.10%	−11.99%
Turnout			64,900	69.03%	−7.76%
Registered electors			96,870
	DMK hold		Swing	-5.80%

1967

1967 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Bhavani^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	A. M. Raja	43,353	65.16%	30.79%
	INC	P. K. Mudaliar	21,999	33.07%	−16.03%
	Independent	C. V. V. Samy	1,177	1.77%
Margin of victory			21,354	32.10%	17.37%
Turnout			66,529	76.79%	8.24%
Registered electors			90,290
	DMK gain from INC		Swing	16.07%

1962

1962 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Bhavani^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	N. K. Ranganayaki	32,739	49.10%	15.27%
	DMK	A. M. Raja	22,919	34.37%
	CPI	J. I. Mohammad Ibrahim	6,649	9.97%
	SWA	T. A. Kuppusami Chettiar	1,588	2.38%
	Independent	S. Vaiyapuri Madali	1,200	1.80%
	Independent	M. Sayad Abdul Razak	1,010	1.51%
	Independent	S. C. Latchumana Pathan	315	0.47%
	Independent	K. Kavari Gounder	261	0.39%
Margin of victory			9,820	14.73%	8.15%
Turnout			66,681	68.55%	−15.36%
Registered electors			1,02,272
	INC hold		Swing	15.27%

1957

1957 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Bhavani^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	G. G. Gurumurthi	49,926	33.83%	−2.53%
	INC	P. G. Manickam (Sc)	40,224	27.26%	−9.11%
	Independent	K. Komaraswami Gounder	26,944	18.26%
	Independent	A. Subramanian (Sc)	17,580	11.91%
	Independent	K. M. Chenroyam	12,899	8.74%
Margin of victory			9,702	6.57%	0.19%
Turnout			1,47,573	83.91%	13.82%
Registered electors			1,75,870
	INC hold		Swing	-2.53%

1952

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Bhavani^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	B. K. Nallaswami	18,649	36.36%	36.36%
	TTP	N. Palaniswami Gounder	15,375	29.98%
	Independent	T. M. Sambuselli Gounder	11,321	22.08%
	CPI	B. N. Balu	5,938	11.58%
Margin of victory			3,274	6.38%
Turnout			51,283	70.09%
Registered electors			73,169
	INC win (new seat)