Coimbatore West Assembly constituency

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

Coimbatore (West)
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	1,40,374
Reservation	None

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1957	Savithiri Shanmugam		Indian National Congress
1962	G. E. Chinnadurai
1967	J. Govindarajulu		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1971[1]	P. Gopal
1973 Bye-election	C. Aranganayagam		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1977-1980[2]
1980-1984
1984-1989	M. Ramanathan[3]		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1989-1991
1991-1996	K. Selvaraj		Indian National Congress
1996-2001	C. T. Dhandapani		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2001-2006	S. Maheswari[4]		Indian National Congress
2006-2011	T. Malaravan		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

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Election results

1962

1962 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Coimbatore West^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	G. E. Chinnadurai	38,645	42.10%	−1.94%
	DMK	Rajamanickam	21,023	22.90%
	CPI	Bhupathy	21,012	22.89%
	SWA	Venkataramana Iyer	8,644	9.42%
	Independent	Natesan	2,278	2.48%
	Independent	P. S. Krishnaswamy	184	0.20%
Margin of victory			17,622	19.20%	−3.50%
Turnout			91,786	78.11%	28.19%
Registered electors			119,949
	INC hold		Swing	-1.94%