About Pudukkottai Assembly Constituency

Pudukkottai is constituency No. 180 of Tamil Nadu legislative assembly. This unreserved constituency is located in Pudukkottai district. It comes under Tiruchirappalli Lok Sabha constituency.

According to the Election Commission of India, this constituency has a total of 1,77,413 registered voters. It has 88,686 male and 88,722 female voters.

This seat was won by the CPI in 2011 assembly elections. Muthukumaran P., the winning candidate, defeated his nearest rival by a narrow margin of 3,101 votes. Muthukumaran secured 65,466 votes. The runner-up was Periyannan Arassu of DMK. The voter turnout was 79.05 %. Interestingly, the CPI lost this seat to ADMK in the 2014 by-election which was held following Muthukumaran's demise.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Pudukkottai Assembly Constituency

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

YearA C No.Constituency NameCategoryWinnerSex PartyVotesRunner UpGenderPartyVotes
2011180PudukkottaiGENMuthukumaran.PMCPI65466Periyannan ArassuMDMK62365
2006191PudukkottaiGENNedunchezhian, RMAIADMK64319Jaffarali, M.MDMK62369
2001191PudukkottaiGENDr. Vijayabasker.CMADMK77627Periyannan ArasuMDMK49444
1997By PollsPudukkottaiGENMari Ayya P. MDMK 57769Chelladhurai S. MADMK 45745
1996191PudukkottaiGENPeriannan A.MDMK79205Swaminathan S.C.MINC36422
1991191PudukkottaiGENSwaminathan C.MINC82205Mani V. N.MDMK38806
1989191PudukkottaiGENPeriyannan A.MDMK45534Erama VeerappanMADK(JR)26254
1984191PudukkottaiGENJ.Mohamed GaniMINC63877K.R. SubbiahMCPI26214
1980191PudukkottaiGENRajkumar Vijaya RegunathathondaimanMINC(I)47660Subbiah, K. R.MCPI46387
1977191PudukkottaiGENR. Rajkumar Vijaya RaghunathatondamanMINC36406C. AnbarasanMADK19352
1971168PudukkottaiGENSathiamoorthy M.MNCO34680Subbaiah KrMCPI33393
1967168PudukkottaiGENR.V.ThondaimanMINC45342ThiagarajanMDMK25255

Last Updated on May 13, 2016