Mettur (state assembly constituency): Difference between revisions

Mettur is a state legislative assembly constituency in Salem district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.^[1] It comprises a portion of Mettur taluk and is a part of the wider Dharmapuri constituency for national elections to the Parliament of India.^[2] Elections and winners in the constituency are listed below.

Madras State[edit | edit source]

Year	Winner
1957	K. S. Ardhanareeswara Gounder	Indian National Congress
1962	K. S. Arthanareswara Gounder	Indian National Congress
1967	M. Surendran	Praja Socialist Party

Tamil Nadu[edit | edit source]

Year	Winner
1971	M. Surendran	Praja Socialist Party
1977	K. P. Nachimuthu Gounder	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1980	K. P. Nachimuthu	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1984	K. P. Nachimuthu	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1989	M. Sreerangan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991	S. Sundarambal	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1996	P. Gopal	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2001	S. Sundarambal	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2006	G. K. Mani	Pattali Makkal Katchi
2011	S. R. Parthiban	Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam
2016	S. Semmalai^[3]	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2021	S.Sadhasivam	Pattali Makkal Katchi

Election Results[edit | edit source]

2021[edit | edit source]

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Mettur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PMK	S. Sadasivam	97,055	44.43
	DMK	S. Srinivasaperumal	96,399	44.13
	NTK	Manikandan	9,109	4.17
	MNM	Anusuya	4,605	2.11
Majority
Turnout			2,18,442
	PMK gain from AIADMK		Swing

References[edit | edit source]

↑ "Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Constituency Map". Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. Archived from the original on 14 June 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
↑ "Tamil Nadu - Final Notification & Order" (PDF). Delimitation Commission of India. National Informatics Centre. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
↑ "2016 Tamil Nadu General Election: Constituency Data Summary" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 85. Retrieved 27 May 2016.

"Statistical reports of assembly elections". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2010.

Elections in Tamil Nadu

General elections

Legislative Council

Legislative Assembly

Assembly by-elections

Local elections

Municipal	1996 2001 2006 2011 2021
Panchayat	1996 2001 2006 2011 2019

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