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Tenkasi | |
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Constituency for the State Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
State | Tamil Nadu |
Total electors | 2,92,538 |
Most successful party | INC (8 times) |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
Current MLA | S. Palani Nadar |
Party | Indian National Congress |
Elected year | 2021 |
Tenkasi state assembly constituency in Tenkasi District Tamil Nadu. [1] Elections and winners in the constituency are listed below. It is part of the Tenkasi Lok Sabha constituency.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | S. Palani Nadar | 89,315 | 41.71% | -0.64% | |
AIADMK | S. Selvamohandas Pandian | 88,945 | 41.54% | ||
NTK | Vincentraj. R | 15,336 | 7.16% | 5.73% | |
AMMK | Mohamed. S | 9,944 | 4.64% | ||
MNM | Thirumalaimuthu. R | 2,188 | 1.02% | ||
Independent | Madasamy. A | 1,978 | 0.92% | ||
NOTA | Nota | 1,159 | 0.54% | -1.13% | |
PT | Chandrasegar. S | 878 | 0.41% | ||
AIADMK | Udhayakumar. K. M | 690 | 0.32% | -42.26% | |
Independent | Ramesh. R | 684 | 0.32% | ||
Independent | Palanimurugan. P | 628 | 0.29% | ||
Margin of victory | 370 | 0.17% | -0.06% | ||
Turnout | 2,14,108 | 73.19% | -3.74% | ||
Registered electors | 2,92,538 | ||||
INC gain from AIADMK | Swing | -0.86% | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AIADMK | S. Selvamohandas Pandian | 86,339 | 42.58% | -11.72% | |
INC | S. Palani Nadar | 85,877 | 42.35% | ||
BJP | Selvi B | 11,716 | 5.78% | 4.19% | |
TMC | Charles N. D. S | 7,324 | 3.61% | ||
NOTA | None Of The Above | 3,391 | 1.67% | ||
NTK | Muthukumar C | 2,898 | 1.43% | ||
Independent | Madasamy A | 1,621 | 0.80% | ||
PMK | Seetharaman P | 1,222 | 0.60% | ||
AIFB | Periya Durai P | 885 | 0.44% | ||
Independent | Uthami K | 562 | 0.28% | ||
Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam | Chelladurai T | 489 | 0.24% | ||
Margin of victory | 462 | 0.23% | -13.29% | ||
Turnout | 2,02,775 | 76.93% | -1.98% | ||
Registered electors | 2,63,584 | ||||
AIADMK hold | Swing | -11.72% | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AIADMK | R. Sarathkumar | 92,253 | 54.30% | ||
DMK | V. Karuppasamy Pandian | 69,286 | 40.78% | -9.20% | |
BJP | Anburaj. S. V | 2,698 | 1.59% | -2.13% | |
ABHM | Arumugam. S | 1,507 | 0.89% | ||
Independent | Mariappan. D | 1,140 | 0.67% | ||
Independent | Vethala Iyyankan. M | 1,080 | 0.64% | ||
Independent | Paramasivan. S | 954 | 0.56% | ||
BSP | Kannan. V | 501 | 0.29% | -1.57% | |
Independent | Ramanathan. G | 491 | 0.29% | ||
Margin of victory | 22,967 | 13.52% | 0.15% | ||
Turnout | 2,15,324 | 78.91% | 4.24% | ||
Registered electors | 1,69,910 | ||||
AIADMK gain from DMK | Swing | 4.32% | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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DMK | V. Karuppasamy Pandian | 69,755 | 49.98% | 5.80% | |
MDMK | Udayasuriyan. Rama | 51,097 | 36.61% | ||
BJP | Ravi Arunan. K | 5,190 | 3.72% | ||
DMDK | Kamaraj. S | 5,081 | 3.64% | ||
BSP | Chandran. S | 2,607 | 1.87% | ||
Independent | Mariappan. N | 2,095 | 1.50% | ||
AIFB | Muthuraja. A | 1,645 | 1.18% | ||
Independent | Balasubramanian. K | 1,166 | 0.84% | ||
Independent | Thangappan. S. S | 423 | 0.30% | ||
RLD | Ravichandran. R | 315 | 0.23% | ||
Independent | Arumugasamy. P | 196 | 0.14% | ||
Margin of victory | 18,658 | 13.37% | 6.13% | ||
Turnout | 1,39,570 | 74.66% | 10.87% | ||
Registered electors | 1,86,929 | ||||
DMK gain from AIADMK | Swing | -1.44% | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AIADMK | K. Annamalai | 62,454 | 51.41% | ||
DMK | V. Karuppasamy Pandian | 53,662 | 44.18% | ||
Independent | Sankarasubramanian M. Alias Lala M. Mani | 2,064 | 1.70% | ||
Independent | Balasubramanian K | 1,712 | 1.41% | ||
Independent | Iyappan. S. | 861 | 0.71% | ||
Independent | Subramanian K. | 720 | 0.59% | ||
Margin of victory | 8,792 | 7.24% | -19.50% | ||
Turnout | 1,21,473 | 63.79% | -5.22% | ||
Registered electors | 1,90,762 | ||||
AIADMK gain from TMC | Swing | -1.40% | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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TMC | K. Ravi Arunan | 60,758 | 52.82% | ||
INC | Aladi Sankaraiya | 29,998 | 26.08% | -36.03% | |
MDMK | Asan Ibrahim | 10,250 | 8.91% | ||
BJP | Deena Dayalan. S. P. | 9,962 | 8.66% | 1.77% | |
AIIC(T) | Thanga Samy Nadar. S. | 1,224 | 1.06% | ||
Independent | Seenivasa Pandian. M. A. | 500 | 0.43% | ||
Independent | Vanaraj. E. | 224 | 0.19% | ||
Subbiah. A. M. | 213 | 0.19% | |||
Independent | Nagoor Mydeen. N. | 205 | 0.18% | ||
Independent | Vargheese. M. | 164 | 0.14% | ||
Independent | Peer Mohammed. N. | 160 | 0.14% | ||
Margin of victory | 30,760 | 26.74% | -8.42% | ||
Turnout | 1,15,038 | 69.02% | 1.75% | ||
Registered electors | 1,73,679 | ||||
TMC gain from INC | Swing | -9.29% | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | S. Peter Alphonse | 65,142 | 62.10% | 25.82% | |
DMK | Ramakrishnan S. | 28,263 | 26.94% | -3.31% | |
BJP | Sastha R. T. | 7,228 | 6.89% | ||
IUML | Chellathurai N. | 3,185 | 3.04% | ||
Tharasu Makkal Mandram | Kumar M. | 273 | 0.26% | ||
Independent | Balraj A. | 271 | 0.26% | ||
Independent | Poorvamprakash T. S. P. | 172 | 0.16% | ||
Independent | Rajaiah A. | 124 | 0.12% | ||
Independent | Varadaraj P. | 91 | 0.09% | ||
Independent | Palani T. | 74 | 0.07% | ||
Independent | Davidraman S. | 70 | 0.07% | ||
Margin of victory | 36,879 | 35.16% | 29.12% | ||
Turnout | 1,04,893 | 67.27% | -10.25% | ||
Registered electors | 1,61,652 | ||||
INC hold | Swing | 25.82% | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | S. Peter Alphonse | 39,643 | 36.29% | -24.16% | |
DMK | Pandivalavan. V. M | 33,049 | 30.25% | -7.27% | |
AIADMK | Gani A. M. M | 20,578 | 18.84% | ||
Independent | Venkataramana T. S. R | 12,860 | 11.77% | ||
Independent | Samudram. S. M | 1,221 | 1.12% | ||
Independent | Chellappa P. M | 427 | 0.39% | ||
Independent | Kalandher. E. M | 304 | 0.28% | ||
Independent | Subbiah. S. M | 253 | 0.23% | ||
Independent | Arunachalapandian. S. M | 233 | 0.21% | ||
Independent | Paramasivan. K. M | 231 | 0.21% | ||
Independent | Thankappan K. M | 177 | 0.16% | ||
Margin of victory | 6,594 | 6.04% | -16.90% | ||
Turnout | 1,09,248 | 77.52% | -1.44% | ||
Registered electors | 1,43,876 | ||||
INC hold | Swing | -24.16% | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | T. R. Venkataraman | 57,011 | 60.45% | 11.49% | |
DMK | M. Kuthalingam | 35,383 | 37.52% | ||
Independent | A. M. Subbniah | 849 | 0.90% | ||
Independent | A. S. Thirumalai | 726 | 0.77% | ||
Independent | M. Mohaidden Pichai | 343 | 0.36% | ||
Margin of victory | 21,628 | 22.93% | 22.01% | ||
Turnout | 94,312 | 78.96% | 14.03% | ||
Registered electors | 1,25,902 | ||||
INC gain from AIADMK | Swing | 10.57% | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AIADMK | A. K. Sattanatha Karayalar | 36,638 | 49.88% | ||
INC | Ramanan Alias Venkataramanan. T. R. | 35,963 | 48.96% | 7.60% | |
Independent | Mohideen Pichai. M. | 452 | 0.62% | ||
Independent | Kalyana Sundaram. S. H. | 404 | 0.55% | ||
Margin of victory | 675 | 0.92% | -15.18% | ||
Turnout | 73,457 | 64.93% | -7.22% | ||
Registered electors | 1,14,840 | ||||
AIADMK gain from INC | Swing | 8.52% | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | S. Muthusamy Karayalar | 30,273 | 41.36% | -2.98% | |
Independent | J. Abdul Jabbar | 18,489 | 25.26% | ||
DMK | V. Pandi Valavan | 12,745 | 17.41% | -38.25% | |
JP | L. Arumugasamy | 10,529 | 14.39% | ||
Independent | T.K.V. Natarajan | 1,158 | 1.58% | ||
Margin of victory | 11,784 | 16.10% | 4.77% | ||
Turnout | 73,194 | 72.15% | -6.01% | ||
Registered electors | 1,02,800 | ||||
INC gain from DMK | Swing | -14.30% | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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DMK | Samsudeen Alias Kathiravan | 39,110 | 55.66% | 6.88% | |
INC | Iswar An I. C. | 31,150 | 44.34% | -5.52% | |
Margin of victory | 7,960 | 11.33% | 10.26% | ||
Turnout | 70,260 | 78.16% | -4.99% | ||
Registered electors | 92,660 | ||||
DMK gain from INC | Swing | 5.81% | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | I. A. Chidambaram Pillai | 34,561 | 49.86% | 5.53% | |
DMK | K. M. K. Samsudin | 33,818 | 48.79% | ||
Independent | M. Pitchai | 939 | 1.35% | ||
Margin of victory | 743 | 1.07% | -18.05% | ||
Turnout | 69,318 | 83.15% | 7.86% | ||
Registered electors | 85,612 | ||||
INC hold | Swing | 5.53% | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | A. R. Subbiah Mudaliar | 29,684 | 44.33% | 1.03% | |
IUML | Reboi Sahib | 16,882 | 25.21% | ||
CPI | N. Shanmugam | 13,003 | 19.42% | ||
SWA | Sankaranarayana Iyer | 4,138 | 6.18% | ||
Independent | Palanichami | 2,139 | 3.19% | ||
Independent | Muthiah Thevar | 1,117 | 1.67% | ||
Margin of victory | 12,802 | 19.12% | 9.53% | ||
Turnout | 66,963 | 75.30% | 3.58% | ||
Registered electors | 91,851 | ||||
INC gain from Independent | Swing | -8.56% | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | K. Sattanatha Karayalar | 31,145 | 52.89% | ||
INC | I. A. Chidambaram Pillai | 25,499 | 43.30% | -1.23% | |
Independent | A. Srinivasan | 2,243 | 3.81% | ||
Margin of victory | 5,646 | 9.59% | 4.88% | ||
Turnout | 58,887 | 71.72% | -0.47% | ||
Registered electors | 82,107 | ||||
Independent gain from INC | Swing | 8.36% | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | Subramaniam Pillai | 26,340 | 44.53% | 44.53% | |
Independent | Sevagupandia Thevar | 23,557 | 39.82% | ||
SP | Pichia Mudaliar | 9,256 | 15.65% | ||
Margin of victory | 2,783 | 4.70% | |||
Turnout | 59,153 | 72.19% | |||
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