Coimbatore East Assembly constituency

Coimbatore (East)
Coimbatore (East)
Former constituency for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Coimbatore
Established	1967
Abolished	2008
Total electors	1,57,364
Reservation	None

Coimbatore East was a legislative assembly constituency in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It covered parts of Coimbatore. Coimbatore East Assembly constituency was a part of Coimbatore Lok Sabha constituency. After the 2008 delimitation, this constituency became defunct.

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Year	Name
1952	C. Subramaniam	Indian National Congress
1957	Marudachalam	Communist Party of India
1957	Palaniswami	Indian National Congress
1962	K. P. Palanisamy	Indian National Congress
1967	M. Bhupathy	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Fifth	K. Ranganathan	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Sixth	K. Ramani	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Seventh
Eighth
Ninth
Tenth	V. K. Lakshmanan	Indian National Congress
Eleventh		Tamil Maanila Congress
Twelfth		Tamil Maanila Congress
Thirteenth	N. Pongalur Palanisamy	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Pongalur Palanisamy. N.	51,827	47.50%
	AIADMK	Gopalakrishnan. V.	45,491	41.70%
	DMDK	Mary. G.	7,886	7.23%
	BJP	Shanmugam. K.	2,651	2.43%	−43.76%
	Independent	Ramamoorthy. P. M.	424	0.39%
	JD(U)	Anbuselvam. S. B.	415	0.38%
	BSP	Subramanian. P.	205	0.19%
	Independent	Sivarajasekaran. P.	204	0.19%
Margin of victory			6,336	5.81%	1.93%
Turnout			1,09,103	69.33%	17.33%
Registered electors			1,57,364
	DMK gain from TMC(M)		Swing	-2.57%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TMC(M)	Lakshmanan V. K.	41,419	50.08%	−18.73%
	BJP	Nanjappan N. R.	38,208	46.19%	42.30%
	JD(S)	Balan. K. B.	1,783	2.16%
	Independent	Ravi P	692	0.84%
	Independent	Manickam N	324	0.39%
	Independent	Padmanapan . K.	285	0.34%
Margin of victory			3,211	3.88%	−49.16%
Turnout			82,711	52.00%	−8.16%
Registered electors			1,59,063
	TMC(M) hold		Swing	-18.73%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TMC(M)	V. K. Lakshmanan	61,860	68.81%
	INC	R. S. Velan	14,174	15.77%	−39.79%
	CPI(M)	K. C. Karunakaran	8,523	9.48%	−25.16%
	BJP	N. Soundaraj	3,500	3.89%	−2.40%
	Independent	K. B. Balan	332	0.37%
	IC(S)	Venugopal	282	0.31%
	ATMK	M. Guruswamy	248	0.28%
	Independent	S. Sounderrajan	179	0.20%
	SS	C. N. Ravishankar	126	0.14%
	Independent	P. Rajendran	91	0.10%
	Independent	G. Krishnamoorthy	73	0.08%
Margin of victory			47,686	53.04%	32.12%
Turnout			89,906	60.16%	7.78%
Registered electors			1,53,644
	TMC(M) gain from INC		Swing	13.25%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Lakshmanan V. K.	46,544	55.56%	24.79%
	CPI(M)	Karunakaran K. C.	29,019	34.64%	−4.67%
	BJP	Bhupathy G.	5,275	6.30%
	JP	Geetha K. S.	1,151	1.37%
	Tamilar Desiya Iyakkam	Gandhi A.	185	0.22%
	Independent	Rajasekaran C.	149	0.18%
	PMK	Abdul Kareem H.	130	0.16%
	Independent	Balan K. B.	118	0.14%
	Independent	Rajendran G.	100	0.12%
	Independent	Nanjappan C. M.	99	0.12%
	Independent	Anthonyaraj R.	98	0.12%
Margin of victory			17,525	20.92%	12.38%
Turnout			83,780	52.38%	−14.52%
Registered electors			1,62,322
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	16.25%

Members of the Legislative Assembly

1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Coimbatore (East)^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Ramani. K.	37,397	39.31%	−8.83%
	INC	Ramakrishnan. E.	29,272	30.77%
	AIADMK	Malaravan. T.	14,727	15.48%	−31.41%
	AIADMK	Manimaran. V.R.	8,799	9.25%	−37.65%
	Independent	Gopal. P.N.	1,751	1.84%
	Independent	Balan. K.B.	1,065	1.12%
	Independent	Kalimuthu. R.	761	0.80%
	Independent	Komahan	313	0.33%
	Independent	Kalidass. M.P.	174	0.18%
	Independent	Manitharachalam. K.	160	0.17%
	Independent	Muthuswamy. K.	154	0.16%
Margin of victory			8,125	8.54%	7.29%
Turnout			95,142	66.90%	2.79%
Registered electors			1,44,236
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	-8.83%

1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Coimbatore (East)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Ramani K.	40,891	48.14%	2.75%
	AIADMK	Kovai Thambi	39,832	46.89%
	Independent	Jagadeesan P. V.	1,485	1.75%
	Independent	Mariaselvam Anthonisamy. P.	543	0.64%
	Independent	Rajan C.	409	0.48%
	Independent	Sundareswaran N.	302	0.36%
	Independent	Narayanaswamy. G. P	292	0.34%
	Independent	Chandrasekaran	249	0.29%
	Independent	Ramasamy. M.	217	0.26%
	Independent	Jayachandran A.	189	0.22%
	Independent	Subbian. R. A.	154	0.18%
Margin of victory			1,059	1.25%	1.07%
Turnout			84,941	64.11%	10.80%
Registered electors			1,37,305
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	2.75%

1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Coimbatore (East)^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Ramani. K.	33,666	45.39%	14.85%
	INC	Ganga Nair	33,533	45.21%	24.84%
	JP	Venkatachalam. K. R.	5,406	7.29%
	BJP	Ramani Kumar. G.	870	1.17%
	Independent	Marudachala. V.	358	0.48%
	Independent	Nadai Mannan Parthasarathy. N.	182	0.25%
	Independent	Arunan. K.	157	0.21%
Margin of victory			133	0.18%	−2.78%
Turnout			74,172	53.30%	−3.22%
Registered electors			1,40,417
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	14.85%

1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Coimbatore (East)^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	K. Ramani	20,803	30.54%
	DMK	K. Aranganathan	18,784	27.58%	−19.14%
	JP	K.R. Venkatachalam	14,049	20.63%
	INC	S. Ramaswamy	13,877	20.37%	−21.05%
	Independent	K. Palaniswamy	407	0.60%
	Independent	K.K. Vadivelu	194	0.28%
Margin of victory			2,019	2.96%	−2.33%
Turnout			68,114	56.52%	−7.95%
Registered electors			1,21,664
	CPI(M) gain from DMK		Swing	-16.17%