About Aruppukkottai Assembly Constituency

Aruppukkottai is constituency No. 207 of Tamil Nadu legislative assembly. It is situated in Virudhunagar district and comes under the Virudhunagar Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency.

According to data with the Election Commission of India, this constituency has 1,79,531 registered voters. It includes 88,237 male and 91,293 female registered voters.

The AIADMK won this seat in the 2011 Assembly elections. Vaigaichelvan, the winning AIADMK candidate, bagged 76,546 votes. His nearest contender was Ramachandran. K.K.S.S.R. of DMK who got 65,908 votes. The voter turnout was 83.47 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Aruppukkottai Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Sex	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2011	207	Aruppukkottai	GEN	Vaigaichelvan	M	AIADMK	76546	Ramachandran. K.K.S.S.R	M	DMK	65908
2006	204	Aruppukkottai	GEN	Thangam Thennarasu	M	DMK	52002	Murugan.K	M	AIADMK	43768
2001	204	Aruppukkottai	GEN	Sivasamy K.K.	M	ADMK	49307	Thangam Thennarasu	M	DMK	43155
1998	By Polls	Aruppukkottai	GEN	Thangamthenarasu	M	DMK	40223	Panchavarnam V.S.	M	ADMK	38272
1996	204	Aruppukkottai	GEN	Thangapandian, V.	M	DMK	45081	Sundarapandian, K.	M	ADMK	28716
1991	204	Aruppukkottai	GEN	Manimeghalai V. G.	F	ADK	56985	Shanmuga Sundaram R. M.	M	DMK	37066
1989	204	Aruppukkottai	GEN	Thangapandian, V.	M	DMK	44990	Panchavarnam, V.S	M	ADK(JL)	29467
1986	By Polls	Aruppukkottai	GEN	V.S.Panchavarnam	M	ADK	55125	V.Thangapandian	M	DMK	34202
1984	204	Aruppukkottai	GEN	M. Pitchai	M	ADK	39839	V.Thangapandian	M	DMK	36405
1980	204	Aruppukkottai	GEN	Pituhai, M.	M	ADK	42589	Thangapandian, V.	M	DMK	30904
1977	204	Aruppukkottai	GEN	M.G. Ramachandran	M	ADK	43065	M. Muthuvel Servai	M	JNP	13687
1971	203	Aruppukkottai	GEN	Sowdi Sundara Bharathi	M	FBL	37021	Veerasamy M.	M	SWA	27908
1967	203	Aruppukkottai	GEN	S.S.Bharathi	M	SWA	34153	T.K.Sundarm	M	INC	25012