Paramathi-Velur (state assembly constituency)

For other places with same/similar name, see Paramathi-Velur (disambiguation).

Paramathi-Velur
Constituency for the State Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Namakkal
LS constituency	Namakkal
Total electors	2,21,602 [1]
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA	Sekar S
Party	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Elected year	2021

Paramathi-Velur is a state assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu, India that was formed after constituency delimitations in 2008. ^[2] It consists of Paramathi-Velur taluk and portions of the Tiruchengodu and Namakkal taluks. It forms a part of the Namakkal parliamentary constituency ^[3]

Year	Winner	Party
2011	U. Thaniyarasu		Tamil Nadu Kongu Ilaignar Peravai
2016	K S Moorthiy		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2021	S. Sekar		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election results

Vote share of Winning candidates
2021			47.08%
2016			42.45%
2011			54.50%

2021

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election  : Paramathi-Velur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Sekar S	86,034	47.08%	5.10%
	DMK	Moorthiy K S	78,372	42.89%	0.44%
	NTK	Uvarani K	11,684	6.39%	5.46%
	MNM	Natarajan K	1,882	1.03%
	AMMK	Saminathan P P	1,329	0.73%
	NOTA	Nota	964	0.53%	-0.42%
	BSP	Raman V	495	0.27%
	Independent	Sekar R	368	0.20%
	Independent	Sundaram N	280	0.15%
	Independent	Sekar N	270	0.15%
	Independent	Devandran G	259	0.14%
Margin of victory			7,662	4.19%	3.73%
Turnout			1,82,733	82.46%	-1.57%
Rejected ballots			168	0.09%
Registered electors			2,21,602
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	4.63%

2016

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election  : Paramathi-Velur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Moorthiy K S	74,418	42.45%
	AIADMK	Rajendhiran R	73,600	41.98%	-12.52%
	DMDK	Muthukumar K	6,014	3.43%
	KMDK	Boopathi C	5,116	2.92%
	BJP	Rajkumar S	4,323	2.47%	1.06%
	PMK	Ramesh Pon	3,740	2.13%
	NOTA	None Of The Above	1,658	0.95%
	NTK	Deivasigamani G	1,643	0.94%
	Independent	Periasamy R	1,134	0.65%
	Independent	Ramesh M	725	0.41%
	Independent	Chandran S	600	0.34%
Margin of victory			818	0.47%	-19.98%
Turnout			1,75,306	84.03%	2.77%
Registered electors			2,08,633
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-12.05%

2011

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election  : Paramathi-Velur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	U.Thaniyarasu	82,682	54.50%
	PMK	Vadivel. C	51,664	34.06%
	Independent	Vaithiyanathan. V	6,233	4.11%
	BJP	Manoharan. K	2,140	1.41%
	Independent	Sivasankar. A	2,012	1.33%
	Independent	Gopal. P	1,527	1.01%
	IJK	Thangadurai. M	1,447	0.95%
	Independent	Balasubramaniam. S. R	911	0.60%
	Independent	Ravikumar. S	712	0.47%
	Independent	Ramasamy. N	566	0.37%
	Independent	Sundaram. N	534	0.35%
Margin of victory			31,018	20.45%	{{{change}}}
Turnout			1,86,699	81.26%
Registered electors			1,51,705
	AIADMK win (new seat)

References

1. "Form 21E (Return of Election)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
2. "New Constituencies, Post-Delimitation 2008" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2012.
3. "Tamil Nadu - Final Notification & Order" (PDF). Delimitation Commission of India. National Informatics Centre. Retrieved 28 January 2017.