Morappur Assembly constituency

Morappur is a legislative assembly constituency, that includes the city, Morappur. It is part of Dharmapuri Lok Sabha constituency.

Morappur
Former constituency for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Dharmapuri
Established	1977
Abolished	2008
Total electors	1,73,038

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Assembly	Duration	Winner	Party
Sixth	1977-80	N. Kuppusamy		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Seventh	1980-84	N. Kuppusamy		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Eighth	1984-89	T. Theerthagiri Gounder		Indian National Congress
Ninth	1989-91	V. Mullaivendhan		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Tenth	1991-96	K. Singaram		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Eleventh	1996-01	V. Mullaivendhan		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Twelfth	2001-06	P. Palaniappan		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Thirteenth	2006-11	V. Mullaivendhan		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

The constituency was merged into the newly formed Pappireddipatti Assembly constituency after the constituency delimitation in 2008.^[1]

Election results

2006

2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Morappur^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	V. Mullaivendhan	64,962	51.24%	16.01%
	AIADMK	K. Singaram	51,771	40.83%	−15.48%
	DMDK	S. Saravanan	4,932	3.89%
	Independent	R. Pathmanapan	2,116	1.67%
	BJP	S. Jayakumar	1,792	1.41%
	BSP	S. Thirumoorthi	1,211	0.96%
Margin of victory			13,191	10.40%	−10.68%
Turnout			126,784	73.27%	12.13%
Registered electors			173,038
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-5.07%

2001

2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Morappur^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	P. Palaniappan	62,266	56.31%	27.97%
	DMK	E. V. Rajasekaran	38,950	35.22%	−18.76%
	Tamil Desiyak Katchi	M. Selvakumar	3,355	3.03%
	MDMK	P. Mathiazhagan	2,709	2.45%	0.03%
	Independent	G. Vasantha	1,402	1.27%
	Independent	R. Chinnaraju	1,167	1.06%
	Independent	M. Sathiavani	450	0.41%
	Independent	P. Kamalasekar	278	0.25%
Margin of victory			23,316	21.09%	−4.56%
Turnout			110,577	61.14%	−9.30%
Registered electors			180,856
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	2.33%

1996

1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Morappur^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	V. Mullaivendhan	59,518	53.98%	31.39%
	AIADMK	K. Singaram	31,244	28.34%	−24.95%
	PMK	T. Ramalingam	15,689	14.23%
	MDMK	R. Ravanan	2,669	2.42%
	Independent	M. Annamalai	320	0.29%
	Independent	R. Sivakavi	182	0.17%
	Independent	R. Kennedy	169	0.15%
	Independent	R. Ayyakannu	159	0.14%
	Independent	M. Shanmugam	117	0.11%
	Independent	V. Chandrasekaran	70	0.06%
	Independent	M. P. Sekar	61	0.06%
Margin of victory			28,274	25.65%	−3.75%
Turnout			110,250	70.44%	1.03%
Registered electors			163,786
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	0.70%

1991

1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Morappur^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	K. Singaram	53,477	53.29%	22.83%
	PMK	A. Arunachalam	23,973	23.89%
	DMK	V. Samikannu	22,678	22.60%	−18.00%
	THMM	C. Sathiyamoorthy	225	0.22%
Margin of victory			29,504	29.40%	19.25%
Turnout			100,353	69.41%	5.41%
Registered electors			148,890
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	12.69%

1989

1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Morappur^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	V. Mullaivendhan	34,038	40.60%	5.57%
	AIADMK	M. G. Sekhar	25,531	30.46%
	INC	Venkatachalam	16,308	19.45%	−31.31%
	Independent	M. Manoharan	4,922	5.87%
	Independent	M. Annamalai	994	1.19%
	Independent	S. Rajaguru	446	0.53%
	Independent	G. Sugadev	338	0.40%
	Independent	M. Rathinasamy	250	0.30%
	Independent	V. Raman	241	0.29%
	Independent	M. Singaravelu	164	0.20%
	Independent	N. V. Chennan	147	0.18%
Margin of victory			8,507	10.15%	−5.58%
Turnout			83,831	64.00%	−8.99%
Registered electors			133,712
	DMK gain from INC		Swing	-10.16%

1984

1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Morappur^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	T. Theerthagiri Gounder	39,779	50.77%	11.01%
	DMK	V. Samikannu	27,453	35.04%
	Independent	R. Ramachandran	8,813	11.25%
	BJP	T. M. A. Mariappan	1,528	1.95%
	Independent	M. Marydass	782	1.00%
Margin of victory			12,326	15.73%	−1.69%
Turnout			78,355	72.99%	0.96%
Registered electors			115,821
	INC gain from AIADMK		Swing	-6.41%

1980

1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Morappur^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	N. Kuppusamy	43,096	57.18%	22.76%
	INC	R. Balasubramanian	29,967	39.76%
	JP	G. Suadev	1,089	1.44%
	Independent	M. R. Srinivasan	713	0.95%
	Independent	K. Theethan	269	0.36%
Margin of victory			13,129	17.42%	14.99%
Turnout			75,370	72.03%	1.89%
Registered electors			106,081
	AIADMK hold		Swing	22.76%

1977

1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Morappur^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	N. Kuppusamy	22,886	34.42%
	DMK	R. P. Murugan	21,270	31.99%
	JP	K. Arunachalam	13,770	20.71%
	CPI	P. P. Rasu	4,616	6.94%
	Independent	K. Natarasan	3,710	5.58%
	Independent	M. G. Sekar	139	0.21%
	Independent	T. V. Anganna Chettiar	108	0.16%
Margin of victory			1,616	2.43%
Turnout			66,499	70.14%
Registered electors			95,843
	AIADMK win (new seat)