About Cumbum Assembly Constituency

Cumbum is constituency No. 201 of Tamil Nadu legislative assembly. It is located in Theni district. This unreserved constituency is part of the Theni Lok Sabha constituency. Elections to this constituency were not held in 1957 and 1962.

According to data with the Election Commission of India, Cumbum has 2,16,907 registered voters. It comprises 1,07,868 male and 1,09,039 female voters.

The DMK won this seat in the 2011 assembly elections by a margin of 12,168 votes. Eramakrishnan N., the winning candidate, got 80,307 votes. Eramakrishnan won this seat for a third consecutive term. Murugesan P., the runner-up, got 68,139 votes. Murugesan was DMDK's candidate. The voter turnout was 76.37%.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Cumbum Assembly Constituency

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

YearA C No.Constituency NameCategoryWinnerSex PartyVotesRunner UpGenderPartyVotes
2011201CumbumGENEramakrishnan.NMDMK80307Murugesan.PMDMDK68139
2009By PollsCumbumGENRamakrishan N,MDMK81515Arun Kumar. R.MDMDK24142
2006134CumbumGENEramakrishnan NMMDMK50761Selvendran PMDMK48803
2001134CumbumGENRamachandran O.RMTMC(M)56823Krishnakumar N.K.RMBJP52437
1996134CumbumGENRamachandran, O.R.MTMC(M)58628Gopalan, R.T.MIND22888
1991134CumbumGENO.R. RamachandaranMINC59263P. EramarMDMK35060
1989134CumbumGENEramakrishnanMDMK52509Gopalan, R.T.MADK(JL)37124
1984134CumbumGENS.SubburayarMADK52228N.RamakrishnanMDMK47005
1980134CumbumGENGopalan, R. T.MADK47577Cumbum Mahandiran, A.K.MDMK35395
1977134CumbumGENR. ChandrasekharanMADK34902N. NatarajanMDMK34080
1971129CumbumGENGopal K. P.MNCO34483Chellathurai P.S.MDMK33806
1967129CumbumGENRajangamMDMK41440N.S.K.S. PandiarajMINC28025

Last Updated on May 13, 2016