About Tenkasi Assembly Constituency

Tenkasi is constituency No. 222 of Tamil Nadu assembly constituency. This unreserved constituency is situated in Tirunelveli district. It is part of the Tenkasi Lok Sabha constituency which is reserved for scheduled castes.

According to the Election Commission of India, the Tenkasi assembly seat has 2,15,324 registered voters including 1,07,917 male and 1,07,406 female voters.

In the 2011 assembly elections, the AIADMK won this seat by a good margin of 22,967 votes. Sarath Kumar R., the winning candidate, got 92,253 votes. With 69,286 votes, Karuppasami Pandian Y. of DMK was the runner-up. The voter turnout was 79.03 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Tenkasi Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Sex	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2011	222	Tenkasi	GEN	Sarath Kumar.R	M	AIADMK	92253	Karuppasami Pandian.Y	M	DMK	69286
2006	216	Tenkasi	GEN	Karuppasamy Pandian.V	M	DMK	69755	Udayasuriyan,Rama	M	MDMK	51097
2001	216	Tenkasi	GEN	Annamalai.K.	M	ADMK	62454	Karuppasami Pandian.V.	M	DMK	53662
1996	216	Tenkasi	GEN	Ravi Arunan, K.	M	TMC(M)	60758	Aladi Sankaraiya	M	INC	29998
1991	216	Tenkasi	GEN	Peter Alphonse S.	M	INC	65142	Ramakrishnan S.	M	DMK	28263
1989	216	Tenkasi	GEN	Peter Alphonse, S.	M	INC	39643	Pandivalavan, V.	M	DMK	33049
1984	216	Tenkasi	GEN	T.R. Venkataramanan	M	INC	57011	M.Kuthalingam	M	DMK	35383
1980	216	Tenkasi	GEN	Sattanatha Karayalar A. K.	M	ADK	36638	Ramanan Alias Venkataramanan, T. R.	M	INC(I)	35963
1977	216	Tenkasi	GEN	S. Muthusamy Karayalar	M	INC	30273	J. Abdul Jabbar	M	IND	18489
1971	215	Tenkasi	GEN	Kathiravan Alias Samshudeen	M	DMK	39110	Iswar An I. C.	M	NCO	31150
1967	215	Tenkasi	GEN	I.A.C.Pillai	M	INC	34561	K.M.K.Samsudin	M	DMK	33818