Madurai South Assembly constituency

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Madurai (South)
Constituency No. 192 for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Madurai
Lok Sabha constituency	Madurai
Established	1951
Total electors	2,30,133[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Incumbent M. Boominathan
Party	MDMK
Elected year	2021

Madurai South is a legislative assembly constituency in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu, in India. Elections and winners from this constituency are listed below.^[2]

Extent of Assembly constituency

• Madurai South Taluk (part)
• Madurai (M Corp.) Ward No.9, 10, 16, 39 and 43 to 59^[2]

This is a new constituency which includes majority of the erstwhile Madurai East constituency.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Winner	Party
2011	R. Annadurai		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2016	S. S. Saravanan		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2021	M. Boominathan		Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK)

Election results

Vote share of winning candidates
2021			42.49%
2016			42.75%
2011			61.59%
1952			46.95%

2021

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Madurai (South)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	MDMK	M. Boominathan	62,812	42.49	+15.94
	AIADMK	S. S. Saravanan	56,297	38.08	−4.67
	MNM	G. Eswaran	12,821	8.67	New
	NTK	M. Abbas	10,483	7.09	+5.32
	AMMK	Sha. Raajalingam	2,672	1.81	New
	NOTA	None of the above	1,551	1.05	−0.94
Margin of victory			6,515	4.41	−11.80
Turnout			147,833	64.24	−2.60
Rejected ballots			131	0.09
Registered electors			230,133
	MDMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-0.27

2016

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Madurai (South)^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	S. S. Saravanan	62,683	42.75	New
	DMK	M. Balachandran	38,920	26.55	New
	MDMK	M. Boominathan	19,443	13.26	New
	BJP	A. R. Mahalakshmi	16,069	10.96	+6.38
	NOTA	None of the above	2,918	1.99	New
Margin of victory			23,763	16.21	−17.34
Turnout			146,611	66.84	−8.96
Registered electors			219,349
	AIADMK gain from CPI(M)		Swing	-18.84

2011

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Madurai (South)^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	R. Annadurai	83,441	61.59	New
	INC	S. P. Varadharajan	37,990	28.04	New
	Independent	K. Anuppanadi Jeya	6,243	4.61	New
	BJP	N. S. R. Santharam	6,204	4.58	New
	IJK	A. Josephine Mary	1,061	0.78	New
Margin of victory			45,451	33.55
Turnout			178,736	75.79
Registered electors			135,472
	CPI(M) win (new seat)

1952

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Madurai (South)^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	T. K. Rama	20,838	46.95	New
	Independent	A. Dharmaraj Santhosam	18,070	40.72	New
	Independent	K. N. Krishnan	3,277	7.38	New
	KMPP	Vidi V. Krishnan	1,101	2.48	New
	Independent	K. R. C. Chari	1,095	2.47	New
Margin of victory			2,768	6.24
Turnout			44,381	64.96
Registered electors			68,320
	INC win (new seat)