Erode West Assembly constituency

Erode West or 'Erode (West)' is a state assembly constituency of Erode city in Erode district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Its State Assembly Constituency number is 99. It consists of portions of the Perundurai and Erode taluks. It is included in Erode Lok Sabha constituency.^[2][3] It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu.

Erode (West)
Constituency No. 99 for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Erode
Lok Sabha constituency	Erode
Established	2008
Total electors	2,93,058[1]
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Incumbent S. Muthusamy
Party	DMK
Elected year	2021

This constituency was newly formed, in the year of 2008, by dividing the integrated Erode Assembly Constituency. Erode West was one of 17 assembly constituencies to have VVPAT facility with EVMs in 2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election.^[4]

Boundaries

It covers the western part of Erode City Corporation to the Perundurai Assembly constituency limit on the west and Modakkurichi Assembly constituency limit on the south; a part of the city is also covered by these two constituencies. Bhavani Assembly constituency also covers some part of the city in the north.

Demographics

Gender demographic of Erode West as of 11.02.2021,^[5] taken during the State General election in 2021:

Year	Female	Male	Transgender	Total
2023	1,42,913	1,48,373	30	2,91,316

Members of Legislative Assembly

Elected members from this constituency are as follows:

Year	Winner	Party
2011	K. V. Ramalingam		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2016
2021	S. Muthusamy		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election results

Vote share of winning candidates
2021			49.49%
2016			43.46%
2011			59.29%

2021

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Erode (West)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	S. Muthusamy	100,757	49.49%	8.62%
	AIADMK	K. V. Ramalingam	78,668	38.64%	−4.82%
	NTK	Chandra Kumar P	13,353	6.56%	5.27%
	MNM	Durai Sevugan	8,107	3.98%
	NOTA	Nota	1,968	0.97%	−0.83%
Margin of victory			22,089	10.85%	8.26%
Turnout			2,03,611	69.48%	−4.43%
Rejected ballots			490	0.24%
Registered electors			2,93,058
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	6.03%

2016

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Erode (West)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Ramalingam K. V.	82,297	43.46%	−15.83%
	DMK	S. Muthusamy	77,391	40.87%
	KMDK	Easwara Murthy M	7,477	3.95%
	MDMK	Murugan N	6,624	3.50%
	BJP	Palanisamy N. P.	4,177	2.21%	−0.09%
	NOTA	None Of The Above	3,403	1.80%
	PMK	Arumugam P V	3,000	1.58%
	NTK	Jothivel T	2,448	1.29%
Margin of victory			4,906	2.59%	−22.14%
Turnout			1,89,367	73.91%	−5.36%
Registered electors			2,56,208
	AIADMK hold		Swing	-15.83%

2011

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Erode (West)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	K. V. Ramalingam	90,789	59.29%
	INC	Yuvaraja M	52,921	34.56%
	BJP	Palanisamy N. P	3,516	2.30%
	Independent	Venkatachalam K	1,371	0.90%
	Independent	Tamilarasu M	1,183	0.77%
	BSP	Nagarajan V. P	1,012	0.66%
Margin of victory			37,868	24.73%	{{{change}}}
Turnout			1,93,170	79.27%
Registered electors			1,53,133
	AIADMK win (new seat)