R. Jayaramakrishnan

R. Jayaramakrishnan is an Indian politician and a former member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly (MLA). He belongs to the Madathukulam region in the Tiruppur district. Jayaramakrishnan completed his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree at Coimbatore Ramakrishna College of Arts and Science and his Bachelor of Laws (B.L.) degree at J.S.S. Law College, Bengaluru.^[1][2] He belongs to the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party. He contested and won the Madathukulam Assembly constituency in the 2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election and subsequently became an MLA.^[3]

R. Jayaramakrishnan
Member-Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
In office 2016–2021
Preceded by	C. Shanmugavelu
Succeeded by	C. Mahendran
Constituency	Madathukulam
Personal details
Born	(1967-04-03)3 April 1967 Palani
Nationality	India
Party	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Profession	Advocate

Electoral Performance

2016

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Madathukulam^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	R. Jayaramakrishnan	76,619	44.66%	3.64%
	AIADMK	Manoharan K	74,952	43.69%	−11.02%
	TMC(M)	Maheswari A S	6,208	3.62%
	BJP	Muthukumar A	2,619	1.53%	0.72%
	PMK	Ravichandran A	2,443	1.42%
	NOTA	None Of The Above	2,147	1.25%
	KMDK	Kumaragurubaran	1,573	0.92%
	Independent	Manoharan S	1,450	0.85%
	NTK	Ravishankar C	980	0.57%
	BSP	Alavudeen S	783	0.46%	0.04%
	Independent	Veeramanickam S	569	0.33%
Margin of victory			1,667	0.97%	−12.72%
Turnout			1,71,544	76.09%	−5.40%
Registered electors			2,25,451
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-10.05%