Madurai West (state assembly constituency)

Madurai West
Madurai West
Constituency for the State Assembly
Constituency details
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Madurai
Constituency	Madurai
Total electors	3,07,141
Most successful party	ADMK (7 times)
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA	Sellur K. Raju
Party	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Elected year	2021

Last updated January 21, 2022

Madurai West is a legislative assembly constituency in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Elections and Winners from this constituency are listed below.

Madras State

Year	Winner	Party		Tenure
1967	N. Sankaraiah		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1967 - 1971

Tamil Nadu

Election	Winner		Tenure
1971	K. T. K. Thangamani	Communist Party of India	1971 - 1976
1977	T. P. M. Periyaswamy	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1977 - 1980
1980	M. G. Ramachandran (Chief Minister)	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1980 - 1984
1984	Pon. Muthuramalingam	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1984 - 1989
1989	Pon. Muthuramalingam	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1989 - 1991
1991	S. V. Shanmugam	Indian National Congress	1991 - 1996
1996	P. T. R. Palanivel Rajan	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1996 - 2001
2001	Valarmathi Jebaraj	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	2001 - 2006
2006	S. V. Shanmugam	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	2006 - 2007
2007*	K. S. K. Rajendran	Indian National Congress	2007 - 2011
2011	Sellur K. Raju	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	2011 - 2016
2016	Sellur K. Raju	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	2016 - 2021
2021	Sellur K. Raju	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Incumbent

*indicates bypolls

Election Results

Vote share of Winning candidates

2021			41.59%
2016			44.81%
2011			59.64%
2006			43.66%
2001			48.06%
1996			62.42%
1991			63.35%
1989			50.32%
1984			51.24%
1980			59.61%
1977			43.06%
1971			47.88%
1967			59.42%

2021

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Madurai West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Sellur K. Raju	83,883	41.59%	-3.22%
	DMK	Chinnammal. C	74,762	37.07%	1.16%
	NTK	Vetrikumaran. C	18,224	9.04%	7.16%
	MNM	Muniyasamy. V	15,849	7.86%
	DMDK	Balachandran. P	3,417	1.69%
	Tamil Nadu Ilangyar Katchi	Nagajothi. K	2,509	1.24%
	NOTA	Nota	1,774	0.88%	-0.62%
	Independent	Ramu. N	368	0.18%
	ABHM	Karthikeyan. R	318	0.16%
	Independent	Venkatesan. M	126	0.06%
	Independent	Premkumar. M	122	0.06%
Margin of victory			9,121	4.52%	-4.38%
Turnout			2,01,694	65.67%	0.09%
Registered electors			3,07,141
	AIADMK hold		Swing	-3.22%

2016

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Madurai West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Sellur K. Raju	82,529	44.81%	-14.83%
	DMK	Thalapathi G	66,131	35.91%	0.65%
	CPI(M)	Vasuki U	19,991	10.85%
	BJP	Sasikumar A	5,705	3.10%	1.12%
	NTK	Thirunavukkarasu V	3,454	1.88%
	NOTA	None Of The Above	2,759	1.50%
	PMK	Krishnakumar R	927	0.50%
	Independent	Venkatesan M	360	0.20%
	Independent	Muthupandian S	332	0.18%
		Meenakshi V C	310	0.17%
		Eswaran S	277	0.15%
Margin of victory			16,398	8.90%	-15.48%
Turnout			1,84,180	65.58%	-8.55%
Registered electors			2,80,863
	AIADMK hold		Swing	-14.83%

2011

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Madurai West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Sellur K. Raju	94,798	59.64%	15.98%
	DMK	Thalapathi G	56,037	35.25%
	BJP	Rajarathinam M	3,149	1.98%	0.57%
	Independent	Paul Pandi M	2,959	1.86%
	IJK	Moorthy P	897	0.56%
	Independent	Venkatesan M	407	0.26%
	Independent	Murugan M	247	0.16%
	Independent	Veeradurai S	234	0.15%
	Independent	Boominathan M	222	0.14%
Margin of victory			38,761	24.39%	21.74%
Turnout			2,14,423	74.13%	3.40%
Registered electors			1,58,950
	AIADMK hold		Swing	15.98%

2006

2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Madurai West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Shanmugam S V	57,208	43.66%	-4.40%
	INC	Perumal N	53,741	41.01%
	DMDK	Manimaran. Dr. S	14,527	11.09%
	BJP	Bhakavathi. P	1,851	1.41%
	Independent	Ramakrishnan. B	1,261	0.96%
	AIFB	Saravanan. L. K	814	0.62%
	JD(U)	Kalyanasundaram. T	422	0.32%
	Independent	Senthur Pandian S	288	0.22%
	Independent	Perumaal. D	243	0.19%
	Independent	Muthusamy. P	212	0.16%
	Independent	Sakkanan. V	162	0.12%
Margin of victory			3,467	2.65%	1.94%
Turnout			1,31,030	70.72%	21.72%
Registered electors			1,85,269
	AIADMK hold		Swing	-4.40%

2001

2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Madurai West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Valarmathijebaraj.	48,465	48.06%
	DMK	Palanivel Rajan P. T. R.	47,757	47.36%	-15.06%
	MDMK	Manoharan. M	2,574	2.55%
	JP	Balasubramani M.	627	0.62%
	Independent	Meenakshi Sundram Dr. M.	569	0.56%
	Independent	Nallathambi M.	426	0.42%
	Independent	Saaminathan A	188	0.19%
	ABHM	Ramdoss M.	128	0.13%
	Independent	Anbu Chezhian P.	106	0.11%
Margin of victory			708	0.70%	-44.05%
Turnout			1,00,840	49.01%	-10.40%
Registered electors			2,05,790
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	-14.35%

1996

1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Madurai West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	P. T. R. Palanivel Rajan	61,723	62.42%	27.69%
	INC	R. Muthusamy	17,465	17.66%	-45.69%
	JD	K. John Moses	13,965	14.12%
	JP	A. G. Karunakaran	4,206	4.25%
	SHS	Era. Veerasamy	179	0.18%
	Independent	S. V. Muthupandian	133	0.13%
	Independent	S. Shanmugavelu	117	0.12%
	Independent	M. Mariammal	114	0.12%
	Independent	S. Jayaraman	111	0.11%
	Independent	C. Karthigaimalai	86	0.09%
	Independent	B. Jeyaram	78	0.08%
Margin of victory			44,258	44.75%	16.13%
Turnout			98,890	59.41%	7.29%
Registered electors			1,71,126
	DMK gain from INC		Swing	-0.93%

1991

1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Madurai West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Shanmugam S. V.	59,586	63.35%	34.55%
	DMK	Ponmuthuramalingam	32,664	34.73%	-15.60%
	PMK	Periaswamy V. K.	380	0.40%
	Independent	Mookkan S.	303	0.32%
	INS(SCS)	Thiruvengadam P.	196	0.21%
	Independent	Premraja R.	133	0.14%
	Independent	Murugesan M.	113	0.12%
	Independent	Balu S. P.	95	0.10%
	Independent	Shunmugam Achari S.	91	0.10%
	Independent	Jaikumar M J.	84	0.09%
	Tharasu Makkal Mandram	Selvaraj R.	79	0.08%
Margin of victory			26,922	28.62%	7.10%
Turnout			94,060	52.11%	-18.96%
Registered electors			1,83,245
	INC gain from DMK		Swing	13.03%

1989

1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Madurai West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Ponmuthuramalingam	45,579	50.32%	-0.91%
	INC	Premkumar. R. V. S	26,087	28.80%
	AIADMK	Karunaidasan. A. M	20,871	23.04%	-24.88%
	Independent	Vadivarsan. A. M	8,455	9.34%
	Independent	Mariappan. G. M	826	0.91%
	Independent	Mohampaul. K	171	0.19%
	Independent	Mancham. S. M	113	0.12%
	Independent	Murugan. S. M	111	0.12%
	Independent	Balakrishnan. N. M	108	0.12%
	Independent	Rajagopal Naidu. A. M	84	0.09%
	Independent	Jayaram. B. M	82	0.09%
Margin of victory			19,492	21.52%	18.21%
Turnout			90,572	71.08%	2.55%
Registered electors			1,28,999
	DMK hold		Swing	-0.91%

1984

1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Madurai West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Pon Muthuramalingam	48,247	51.24%	13.65%
	AIADMK	Pandian S.	45,131	47.93%	-11.69%
	Independent	Sridharan M. R.	313	0.33%
	Independent	Sakthivel S. A.	292	0.31%
	Independent	Sivasubramanian K.	184	0.20%
Margin of victory			3,116	3.31%	-18.72%
Turnout			94,167	68.53%	5.36%
Registered electors			1,42,850
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-8.38%

1980

1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Madurai West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Ramachandran. M. G.	57,019	59.61%	16.55%
	DMK	Muthuramalingam. Pon.	35,953	37.59%	16.00%
	JP	Kamaraj. A. C.	2,178	2.28%
	Independent	Myandi. S.	130	0.14%
	Independent	Subburasu. K. U.	124	0.13%
	Independent	Velsamy Nadar. V. M. S.	123	0.13%
	Independent	Krishnan. J. S.	119	0.12%
Margin of victory			21,066	22.02%	0.55%
Turnout			95,646	63.17%	9.24%
Registered electors			1,52,756
	AIADMK hold		Swing	16.55%

1977

1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Madurai West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	T.P.M. Periyaswamy	32,342	43.06%
	DMK	Pon. Muthuramalingam	16,211	21.59%
	JP	A.C. Kamaraj	13,168	17.53%
	CPI	K.T.K. Tengamani	12,190	16.23%
	AIFB	S. Mayandi	1,192	1.59%
Margin of victory			16,131	21.48%	10.77%
Turnout			75,103	53.93%	-11.46%
Registered electors			1,40,580
	AIADMK gain from CPI		Swing	-4.81%

1971

1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Madurai West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Thangamani K. T. K.	40,899	47.88%
	INC	Anandam P.	31,753	37.17%	8.00%
	CPI(M)	Sankariah N.	12,774	14.95%
Margin of victory			9,146	10.71%	-19.55%
Turnout			85,426	65.39%	-7.14%
Registered electors			1,37,117
	CPI gain from CPI(M)		Swing	-11.54%

1967

1967 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Madurai West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	N. Sankaraiah	46,882	59.42%
	INC	M. Chelliah	23,012	29.17%
	CPI	K. T. K. Thangamani	9,005	11.41%
Margin of victory			23,870	30.25%
Turnout			78,899	72.52%
Registered electors			1,11,707
	CPI(M) win (new seat)

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References

"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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