Erode Assembly constituency

Erode
Erode
Former constituency for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Erode
LS constituency	Erode
Established	1952
Abolished	2006
Total electors	3,03,864
Reservation	None

11°21′N 77°44′E

Erode was a state assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu, India. Post delimitation in 2008, the constituency ceased to exist and was replaced by two constituencies namely Erode East and Erode West.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name
1952	Raju	Communist Party of India
1957	V. S. Manickasundaram	Indian National Congress
1962	A. S. Dakshinamurthy Gounder	Indian National Congress
1967	M. Chinnaswamy	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1971	M. Subramanian	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1977	S. Muthusamy	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1980	S. Muthusamy	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1984	S. Muthusamy	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1989	Subbulakshmi Jegatheesan	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1991	C. Manickam	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1996	N. K. K. Periasamy	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2001	K. S. Thennarasu	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2006	N. K. K. P. Raajah	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election results

Vote share of Winning candidates

2006			44.17%
2001			52.40%
1996			59.80%
1991			63.11%
1989			41.40%
1984			53.50%
1980			56.62%
1977			43.09%
1971			61.16%
1967			59.14%
1962			39.61%
1957			37.28%
1952			40.88%

2006

2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Erode
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	N. K. K. P. Raja	94,938	44.17%	5.19%
	AIADMK	Sivakumar. E. R	84,107	39.13%	-13.27%
	DMDK	Chandhirakumar. V. C	29,011	13.50%
	BJP	Chairman. Pon	1,588	0.74%
	Independent	Palanisamy. K	1,585	0.74%
	Independent	Muthukumar. R	1,320	0.61%
	BSP	Selladurai. K	581	0.27%
	Independent	Sekaran. R	398	0.19%
	Independent	Sukumaran. Pon	261	0.12%
	AIFB	Balan. R	253	0.12%
	Independent	Tamilrasu. M	225	0.10%
Margin of victory			10,831	5.04%	-8.38%
Turnout			2,14,918	70.73%	13.98%
Registered electors			3,03,864
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-8.23%

2001

2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Erode
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	K. S. Thennarasu	95,450	52.40%	19.92%
	DMK	Periyasamy N. K. K.	71,010	38.98%	-20.82%
	MDMK	Ganeshamurthi. A.	9,846	5.41%	1.38%
	Independent	Vengai Rajendran P.	2,233	1.23%
	Independent	Vinaya Kamoorthi. N.	1,524	0.84%
	TDK	Senthilkumar N.	658	0.36%
	Independent	Ramu V.	339	0.19%
	Independent	Nallasivam A. M.	218	0.12%
	Independent	Chokkalingam A. P.	211	0.12%
	Independent	Palanisamy R.	165	0.09%
	Independent	Murugesan S.	135	0.07%
Margin of victory			24,440	13.42%	-13.90%
Turnout			1,82,154	56.74%	-6.52%
Registered electors			3,21,070
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	-7.40%

1996

1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Erode
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	N. K. K. Periasamy	104,726	59.80%	25.34%
	AIADMK	S. Muthusamy	56,889	32.48%	-30.63%
	MDMK	A. Genashamurthy	7,047	4.02%
	BJP	C. Ravi	1,433	0.82%
	PMK	V. K. Jambu	1,359	0.78%
	Independent	M. Devakumar	297	0.17%
	Independent	E. J. Narayanaram Singh	247	0.14%
	Independent	Thiruvenkatachala Mudaliar	233	0.13%
	Independent	K. Murugesan	201	0.11%
	Independent	K. N. Selvaraj	132	0.08%
	Independent	G. Nataraj	132	0.08%
Margin of victory			47,837	27.32%	-1.34%
Turnout			1,75,129	63.27%	5.25%
Registered electors			2,83,064
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-3.32%

1991

1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Erode
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Manickam C.	96,226	63.11%	35.20%
	DMK	Ganeshamurthy A.	52,538	34.46%	-6.94%
	PMK	Rajendran P.	2,175	1.43%
	AMI	Karuppusamy P.	248	0.16%
	Tharasu Makkal Mandram	Neelakandan S.	184	0.12%
	Independent	Murugesan C.	176	0.12%
	Independent	Bhoopathi K.	131	0.09%
	Independent	Vijayakumar P.	110	0.07%
	Independent	Ayyasamy K.	107	0.07%
	Independent	Chandrasekaran P.	104	0.07%
	Independent	Shanmugasundaram R.	103	0.07%
Margin of victory			43,688	28.66%	15.17%
Turnout			1,52,462	58.02%	-12.00%
Registered electors			2,67,353
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	21.71%

1989

1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Erode
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan	68,128	41.40%	-3.41%
	AIADMK	Muthusamu. S. M	45,930	27.91%	-25.59%
	AIADMK	Manickam. C. M	33,391	20.29%	-33.21%
	Independent	Gunasekaran. T. M	10,687	6.49%
	Independent	Muthusamy. K. M	2,234	1.36%
	Independent	Elangandhi. E. K. M	936	0.57%
	Independent	Ponnusamy. P. K. M	256	0.16%
	Independent	Palanisamy. M. K. M	250	0.15%
	Independent	Subramaniam. K. M	186	0.11%
	Independent	Mani P. M	155	0.09%
	Independent	Selvam. R. M	148	0.09%
Margin of victory			22,198	13.49%	4.80%
Turnout			1,64,552	70.02%	-3.03%
Registered electors			2,37,642
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-12.10%

1984

1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Erode
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	S. Muthusamy	71,722	53.50%	-3.12%
	DMK	Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan	60,075	44.81%
	Independent	M. Nallasamy	332	0.25%
	Independent	Kannammal	312	0.23%
	Independent	P. Chinnasamy	272	0.20%
	Independent	Subramaniam	228	0.17%
	Independent	Amrose	226	0.17%
	Independent	P. Karuppusamy	217	0.16%
	Independent	M. R. Subramaniam	185	0.14%
	Independent	K. Ayyavoo	162	0.12%
	Independent	R. Shanmugasundaram	157	0.12%
Margin of victory			11,647	8.69%	-8.12%
Turnout			1,34,060	73.04%	9.55%
Registered electors			1,89,520
	AIADMK hold		Swing	-3.12%

1980

1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Erode
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	S. Muthusamy	62,342	56.62%	13.53%
	INC	Sainathan. R.	43,839	39.82%
	JP	Varadharasan. K. V. V.	2,423	2.20%
	Independent	Karuppanan. M. S.	451	0.41%
	Independent	Balakrishnan. N.	268	0.24%
	Independent	Karunakaran. C.	257	0.23%
	Independent	Ayyavoo. K.	179	0.16%
	Independent	Subramaniam. G. S.	159	0.14%
	Independent	Chakharapani. R.	113	0.10%
	Independent	Shanmugasundaram. A.	73	0.07%
Margin of victory			18,503	16.81%	-3.14%
Turnout			1,10,104	63.50%	5.21%
Registered electors			1,75,563
	AIADMK hold		Swing	13.53%

1977

1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Erode
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	S. Muthusamy	37,968	43.09%
	DMK	M. Subramanian	20,389	23.14%	-38.02%
	JP	K.R. Nallasivam	15,401	17.48%
	CPI	P. Thirumalairajan	12,995	14.75%
	Independent	Kesavalal Kalidas Sait	935	1.06%
	Independent	Gurunatha Mudaliar	277	0.31%
	Independent	K. Manickam	153	0.17%
Margin of victory			17,579	19.95%	-2.38%
Turnout			88,118	58.29%	-10.95%
Registered electors			1,52,823
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	-18.07%

1971

1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Erode
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	M. Subramanian	47,809	61.16%	2.02%
	INC	K. P. Muthusamy	30,358	38.84%	5.27%
Margin of victory			17,451	22.33%	-3.25%
Turnout			78,167	69.24%	-9.34%
Registered electors			1,15,588
	DMK hold		Swing	2.02%

1967

1967 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Erode
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	M. Chinnaswamy	45,471	59.14%
	INC	P. Arjunan	25,808	33.57%	-6.04%
	CPI	R. C. Palaniappan	4,687	6.10%
	RPI(A)	M. Gurusamy	920	1.20%
Margin of victory			19,663	25.57%	16.54%
Turnout			76,886	78.57%	2.95%
Registered electors			1,00,217
	DMK gain from INC		Swing	19.53%

1962

1962 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Erode
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	A. S. Dhakshinamoorthy Gounder	32,895	39.61%	2.33%
	WT	M. Chinnasami Gounder	25,392	30.57%
	Independent	P. K. Palamisami	24,769	29.82%
Margin of victory			7,503	9.03%	2.87%
Turnout			83,056	75.62%	22.45%
Registered electors			1,13,826
	INC hold		Swing	2.33%

1957

1957 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Erode[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	V. S. Manickasundaram	19,012	37.28%	2.35%
	CPI	K. T. Raju	15,870	31.12%
	Independent	N. Chinnusami	14,531	28.49%
	Independent	S. Sidhla Gounder	1,584	3.11%
Margin of victory			3,142	6.16%	0.22%
Turnout			50,997	53.17%	-7.88%
Registered electors			95,917
	INC gain from CPI		Swing	-3.60%

1952

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Erode[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Raju	21,251	40.88%
	INC	Deivasingamani Gounder	18,160	34.93%	34.93%
	Independent	Chenniappa Gounder	6,805	13.09%
	Socialist	Kandaswami	4,334	8.34%
	RPI	Krishnaswami	1,439	2.77%
Margin of victory			3,091	5.95%
Turnout			51,989	61.05%
Registered electors			85,159
	CPI win (new seat)

References

"Statistical Report on General Election, 1957 : To the Legislative Assembly of Madras" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
"Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 : To the Legislative Assembly of Madras" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2014.

External links

"Statistical reports of assembly elections". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2010.

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[1] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1957 : To the Legislative Assembly of Madras" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2015.

[2] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 : To the Legislative Assembly of Madras" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2014.