Kavundampalayam Assembly constituency

Kavundampalayam is a legislative assembly constituency in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Its State Assembly Constituency number is 117. It is the second largest electorate holding assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu as of 2021.^[2]

Kavundampalayam
Constituency No. 117 for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Coimbatore
Lok Sabha constituency	Coimbatore
Established	2008
Total electors	4,65,228[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Incumbent P. R. G. Arunkumar
Party	AIADMK
Elected year	2021

Composition

It comprises the municipality of Kavundampalayam and its surrounding areas in Coimbatore.

History

It was formed by the 2008 delimitation and is part of the Coimbatore parliamentary constituency.^[3] It was created by the bifurcation of Thondamuthur Assembly constituency.^[4] It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu in India.

Demographics

Gender demographics of Kavundampalayam constituency as of 01.04.2021,^[5] taken ahead of the State General election in Tamilnadu in 2021.

Year	Female	Male	Transgender	Total
2021	2,29,997	2,30,908	95	4,61,000

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
2011	V. C. Arukutty		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2016
2021	P. R. G. Arunkumar

Election results

Vote share of winning candidates
2021			44.19%
2016			40.70%
2011			63.22%

2021

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Kavundampalayam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	P. R. G. Arunkumar	135,669	44.19	3.49
	DMK	R. Krishnan	1,25,893	41.00	3.25
	MNM	Pankaj Jain	23,527	7.66
	NTK	Kalamani. M	17,897	5.83	4.46
	NOTA	Nota	2,892	0.94	−0.99
	AMMK	Aruna. M	2,002	0.65
Margin of victory			9,776	3.18	0.24
Turnout			3,07,026	65.99	−0.43
Rejected ballots			971	0.32
Registered electors			4,65,228
	AIADMK hold		Swing	3.49

2016

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Kavundampalayam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	V. C. Arukutty	110,870	40.70	−22.52
	DMK	Payya Gounder @ Krishnan. R.	1,02,845	37.76	6.48
	BJP	Nandakumar. R.	22,444	8.24	5.39
	CPI(M)	Ramamurthy. V.	16,874	6.19
	NOTA	None of the above	5,274	1.94
Margin of victory			8,025	2.95	−29.00
Turnout			2,72,400	66.42	−7.15
Registered electors			4,10,090
	AIADMK hold		Swing	-22.52

2011

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Kavundampalayam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	V. C. Arukutty	137,058	63.22
	DMK	Subramanian T P	67,798	31.27
	BJP	Nandakumar R	6,175	2.85
Margin of victory			69,260	31.95
Turnout			2,94,632	73.58
Registered electors			2,16,785
	AIADMK win (new seat)