Arcot (Tamil Nadu) Election Results 2016

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About Arcot Assembly Constituency

Arcot is constituency No. 42 of Tamil Nadu legislative assembly. It is situated in Vellore district and comes under Arakkonam Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency.

According to the Election Commission of India, this Assembly constituency has 2,11,067 registered voters. It comprises 1,05,024 male and 1,06,043 female registered voters.

The AIADMK won this seat in the 2011 Assembly elections. R. Srinivasan, the winning AIADMK candidate, got 93,258 votes. His nearest contender, K.L. Elavazagan of PMK, got 74,005 votes. The winning margin was 19,253, that is, 10.96% of the total valid votes. The voter turnout was 83.21 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Arcot Assembly Constituency

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Arcot assembly elections conducted so far.

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Sex	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2011	42	Arcot	GEN	R. Srinivasan	M	AIADMK	93258	K.L. Elavazagan	M	PMK	74005
2006	35	Arcot	GEN	Elavazhagan.K.L	M	PMK	60286	Chandran.V.R	M	AIADMK	48969
2001	35	Arcot	GEN	Neelakandan P	M	ADMK	61474	Sundaramoorthy A.K.	M	DMK	43767
1996	35	Arcot	GEN	Subramani, P.N.	M	DMK	62974	Ramadoss, K.V.	M	ADMK	36567
1991	35	Arcot	GEN	Viswanathan G.	M	ADK	61712	Gajapathi T.R.	M	DMK	27439
1989	35	Arcot	GEN	Gajapathy, T.R.	M	DMK	34775	Ramdoss, K.V.	M	ADK(JL)	20470
1984	35	Arcot	GEN	T. Palani	M	ADK	52222	N. Arcot Veeraswamy	M	DMK	34509
1980	35	Arcot	GEN	Sethuraman, A M	M	ADK	35998	Akber Pasha, B	M	INC(I)	34058
1977	35	Arcot	GEN	K.J. Uyyakondan	M	ADK	27193	N.R. Ethirajulu	M	JNP	16614
1971	31	Arcot	GEN	N. Veerasami	M	DMK	39126	N. R. Ethirajalu Naidu	M	NCO	25061
1967	31	Arcot	GEN	N. Veeraswamy	M	DMK	37514	A. G. R. Naicker	M	INC	23184