Cumbum (state assembly constituency)

Cumbum
Cumbum
Constituency for the State Assembly
Constituency details
State	Tamil Nadu
Total electors	2,88,262
Most successful party	DMK & AIADMK (4 times)
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA	N. Eramakrishnan
Party	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Elected year	2021

Last updated January 23, 2022

Cumbum is a state assembly constituency in Theni district in Tamil Nadu.^[1] Elections were not held in 1957 and 1962.

Madras State

Year	Winner	Party
1952	P. T. Rajan		Justice Party
1967	Rajangam		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Tamil Nadu

Year	Winner
1971	K. P. Gopal	Indian National Congress
1977	R. Chandrasekharan	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1980	R. T. Gopalan	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1984	S. Subburayar	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1989	N. Eramakrishnan	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1991	O. R. Ramachandran	Indian National Congress
1996	O. R. Ramachandran	Tamil Maanila Congress
2001	O. R. Ramachandran	Tamil Maanila Congress
2006	N. Eramakrishnan	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2009	N. Eramakrishnan	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2011	N. Eramakrishnan	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2016	S. T. K. Jakkayian	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2021	N. Eramakrishnan	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election Results

Vote share of Winning candidates

2021			51.81%
2016			46.94%
2011			48.58%
2009			73.64%
2006			43.24%
2001			50.73%
1996			54.66%
1991			57.21%
1989			46.17%
1984			52.17%
1980			49.20%
1977			41.50%
1971			48.87%
1967			59.66%
1952			42.30%

2021

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Cumbum
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	N. Eramakrishnan	104,800	51.81%	10.65%
	AIADMK	S. P. M. Syed Khan	62,387	30.84%	-16.10%
	AMMK	Suresh. P	14,536	7.19%
	NTK	Anish Fathima. A	12,347	6.10%	5.53%
	MNM	Venkidesh. N	4,647	2.30%
	NOTA	Nota	1,659	0.82%	-0.32%
	Independent	Muthu Muneeswaran. M	451	0.22%
	Independent	Saravanan. S. R	321	0.16%
	NGPP	Kathiravan. S	236	0.12%
	Independent	Prakash. P	155	0.08%
	APTADMK	Pandi Selvam. R	151	0.07%
Margin of victory			42,413	20.97%	15.19%
Turnout			2,02,275	70.17%	-3.66%
Registered electors			2,88,262
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	4.87%

2016

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Cumbum
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	S. T. K. Jakkaiyan	91,099	46.94%
	DMK	Cumbum. N. Ramakrishnan	79,878	41.16%	-7.42%
	TMC	O. R. Ramachandran	10,149	5.23%
	BJP	N. Prabakaran	3,971	2.05%	0.58%
	NOTA	None Of The Above	2,219	1.14%
	SDPI	S. M. Rafeeq Ahamed	1,368	0.70%
	NTK	R. Jayapal	1,105	0.57%
	PMK	Pon. Katchikannan	763	0.39%
	Independent	S. K. Mariappan	733	0.38%
	Independent	T. Ponraja	702	0.36%
	Independent	R. Saravanan	509	0.26%
Margin of victory			11,221	5.78%	-1.58%
Turnout			1,94,082	73.83%	-2.38%
Registered electors			2,62,868
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	-1.64%

2011

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Cumbum
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	N. Eramakrishnan	80,307	48.58%	7.00%
	DMDK	Murugesan. P	68,139	41.22%	30.69%
	Independent	Abbas Mandhiri. R	6,205	3.75%
	Independent	Prakash. P	2,478	1.50%
	BJP	Logandurai. P	2,431	1.47%	-0.37%
	Independent	Murugesan. P	1,637	0.99%
	IJK	Anthony Vedamuthu. A	980	0.59%
	LSWP	Rajamohan@Senthil R	929	0.56%
	BSP	Saravanan. V	840	0.51%	0.08%
	Independent	Eravichandran. M	541	0.33%
		Rajmohan. N	381	0.23%
Margin of victory			12,168	7.36%	5.69%
Turnout			2,16,907	76.22%	5.26%
Registered electors			1,65,321
	DMK gain from MDMK		Swing	5.34%

2009

Tamil Nadu assembly by-election, 2009: Cumbum
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DMK	N. Ramakrishnan	81,515	73.64%
	DMDK	R. Arun Kumar	24,142	21.81%
Majority			57,373
Turnout			110,700	75.99%
	DMK gain from MDMK		Swing

2006

2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Cumbum
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	MDMK	N. Eramakrishnan	50,761	43.24%
	DMK	Selvendran P	48,803	41.57%
	DMDK	Jeganath. A	12,360	10.53%
	BJP	Sakthivel A	2,162	1.84%	-44.98%
	Independent	Vilangumani N	749	0.64%
	AIFB	Senthil Kumar. R	710	0.60%
	Independent	Palanisamy. S	601	0.51%
	BSP	Easwaran S	506	0.43%
	Independent	Ambika. R	176	0.15%
	Independent	Selvaraj. T	159	0.14%
	Independent	Kesavan. V	148	0.13%
Margin of victory			1,958	1.67%	-2.25%
Turnout			1,17,390	70.96%	9.45%
Registered electors			1,65,427
	MDMK gain from TMC		Swing	-7.49%

2001

2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Cumbum
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TMC	O. R. Ramachandran	56,823	50.73%	-3.92%
	BJP	Krishnakumar N. K. R	52,437	46.82%	43.28%
	Independent	Selvan U P	901	0.80%
	Independent	Antony Arockiaraj A	571	0.51%
	PB	Rajan M	552	0.49%
	Independent	Sivanandan S	423	0.38%
		Saravanan R	294	0.26%
Margin of victory			4,386	3.92%	-29.40%
Turnout			1,12,001	61.51%	-6.46%
Registered electors			1,82,109
	TMC hold		Swing	-3.92%

1996

1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Cumbum
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TMC	O. R. Ramachandran	58,628	54.66%
	Independent	Gopalan. R. T.	22,888	21.34%
	INC	Somasundaram. K. A.	14,129	13.17%	-44.03%
	CPI(M)	Dharmaraj. S.	6,872	6.41%
	BJP	Rajendran. A.	3,797	3.54%	-2.12%
	Independent	Ahamed Zuber. M.	253	0.24%
	Independent	Ganesan. M.	128	0.12%
	Independent	Murugesan. M.	122	0.11%
	Independent	Kannimuthu. P.	120	0.11%
	Independent	Pandiaraja. G.	99	0.09%
	Independent	Venkatesan. S.	85	0.08%
Margin of victory			35,740	33.32%	9.96%
Turnout			1,07,265	67.97%	5.18%
Registered electors			1,64,465
	TMC gain from INC		Swing	-2.55%

1991

1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Cumbum
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	O. R. Ramachandran	59,263	57.21%	42.43%
	DMK	P. Eramar	35,060	33.84%	-12.33%
	BJP	M. Ganakasabapathy	5,860	5.66%
	PMK	A. Saleem Sait	2,791	2.69%
	Independent	T. Krishnamoorthy	243	0.23%
	Independent	K. Kaliappan	198	0.19%
	Independent	K. Abdul Hakkim	122	0.12%
	Independent	B. Pounraj	59	0.06%
Margin of victory			24,203	23.36%	9.84%
Turnout			1,03,596	62.79%	-12.33%
Registered electors			1,69,718
	INC gain from DMK		Swing	11.04%

1989

1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Cumbum
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	N. Eramakrishnan	52,509	46.17%	-0.78%
	AIADMK	Gopalan. R. T. M	37,124	32.64%	-19.52%
	INC	Ramasami. O. M	16,810	14.78%
	AIADMK	Syed Khan. S. P. M. M	6,465	5.68%	-46.48%
	Independent	Saleth. R. M	673	0.59%
	Independent	Surulivelu. K. M	103	0.09%
	Independent	Ziauddin. M. M	45	0.04%
Margin of victory			15,385	13.53%	8.31%
Turnout			1,13,729	75.11%	0.14%
Registered electors			1,53,077
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-6.00%

1984

1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Cumbum
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	S. Subburayar	52,228	52.17%	2.96%
	DMK	N. Eramakrishnan	47,005	46.95%	10.35%
	Independent	S. Pitchai	301	0.30%
	Independent	M. Gopal	127	0.13%
	Independent	A. M. Ajmab Ibrahim	125	0.12%
	Independent	K. Subburaya	87	0.09%
	Independent	N. Rajendran	84	0.08%
	Independent	S. S. Rajendran	84	0.08%
	Independent	M. S. Ponnusamy	77	0.08%
Margin of victory			5,223	5.22%	-7.38%
Turnout			1,00,118	74.97%	0.58%
Registered electors			1,36,730
	AIADMK hold		Swing	2.96%

1980

1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Cumbum
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Gopalan. R. T.	47,577	49.20%	7.71%
	DMK	Cumbum Mahandiran. A. K.	35,395	36.60%	-3.91%
	Independent	Chandrasekaran. P. K. R	12,800	13.24%
	Independent	Chettiar. M. S. Ponnu	386	0.40%
	Independent	Kamuthurai. S.	365	0.38%
	Independent	Surulivelu. K.	173	0.18%
Margin of victory			12,182	12.60%	11.62%
Turnout			96,696	74.39%	6.64%
Registered electors			1,31,390
	AIADMK hold		Swing	7.71%

1977

1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Cumbum
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	R. Chandrasekharan	34,902	41.50%
	DMK	N. Natarajan	34,080	40.52%	-7.39%
	INC	S. Abdul Kader Marikayer	11,329	13.47%	-35.40%
	JP	C.K. Jayaprakash	2,856	3.40%
	Independent	S.N. Ponnuswamy	477	0.57%
	Independent	K. Surulivelu	465	0.55%
Margin of victory			822	0.98%	0.02%
Turnout			84,109	67.75%	-8.51%
Registered electors			1,25,579
	AIADMK gain from INC		Swing	-7.37%

1971

1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Cumbum
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Gopal K. P.	34,483	48.87%	8.53%
	DMK	Chellathurai P. S.	33,806	47.91%	-11.75%
	CPI(M)	Hussain Meer P.	2,273	3.22%
Margin of victory			677	0.96%	-18.35%
Turnout			70,562	76.26%	-2.87%
Registered electors			99,318
	INC gain from DMK		Swing	-10.79%

1967

1967 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Cumbum
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DMK	Rajangam	41,440	59.66%
	INC	N. S. K. S. Pandiaraj	28,025	40.34%
Margin of victory			13,415	19.31%
Turnout			69,465	79.13%
Registered electors			89,912
	DMK gain from Justice Party		Swing

1952

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Cumbum
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Justice Party	P. T. Rajan	24,140	42.30%
	INC	Pidathala Ranga Reddy	22,468	39.37%	39.37%
	Independent	Adapala Ramaswamy	17,144	30.04%
		Kandula Abula Reddy	15,235	26.70%
	INC	Ahmed Meeran S. K. M	12,781	22.40%	22.40%
	Independent	Kottaisami Thevar	9,680	16.96%
	CPI	Jamal Mohideen	8,101	14.20%
	SP	Suggam Purushotham	2,220	3.89%
	SP	Vellaichamy	803	1.41%
Margin of victory			1,672	2.93%
Turnout			57,067	66.50%
Registered electors			85,818
	Justice Party win (new seat)

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[1] "Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Constituency Map". Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. Archived from the original on 14 June 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2017.

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