Manamadurai (state assembly constituency)

Manamadurai is the 187th state assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu. It is a Scheduled Caste reserved constituency located in Sivaganga district. It is a component of Sivaganga Lok sabha constituency.

Elections and winners in the constituency are listed below.

Madras State

Year	Winner	Party
1952	Krishnaswami Iyengar		Indian National Congress
1957	R. Chidambara Bharathi		Indian National Congress
1962	K. Cheemaichamy		Swatantra Party
1967	K. Cheemaichamy		Swatantra Party

Tamil Nadu

Year	Winner	Party
1971	T. Soniah		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1977	V. M. Subramanian		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1980	K. Paramalai		Independent
1984	K. Paramalai		Indian National Congress
1989	P. Duraipandi		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1991	V. M. Subramanian		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1996	K. Thangamani		Communist Party of India
2001	K. Paramalai		Tamil Maanila Congress
2006	M. Gunasekaran		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2011	M. Gunasekaran		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2016	S. Mariappankennady - disqualification by Assembly Speaker 2017		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2019 (By-elections)	S. Nagarajan		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2021	Tamilarasi A.		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election Results

2021

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Manamadurai

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Tamilarasi A.	89,364	44.01
	AIADMK	S. Nagarajan	75,273	37.07
	NTK	Shanmugapriya	23,228	11.44
	AMMK	Mariyappan Kennedy	10,231	5.04
Majority
Turnout			2,03,061
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing

By-Election 2019

Bye-election, 2019: Manamadurai

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	S. Nagarajan	85,228	43.32
	DMK	K. Kasilingam	77,034	39.15
	AMMK	S. Mariappan Kennady	20,395	10.37
	NTK	M. Shanmugapriya	9,315	4.73
	NOTA	None of the Above	1618	0.82
Majority			8,184
Turnout			1,96,917	74.54
	AIADMK hold		Swing

2016

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Manamadurai

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Mariappan Kennedy S	89,893	48.45
	DMK	Chitraselvi S	75,004	40.43
	VCK	Deepa Anbalagan	7,493	4.04
	BJP	Rajendran M	3,493	1.88
	NTK	Sathya S	2,997	1.62
Majority			14,889	6.02
Turnout			1,85,544	72.74
	AIADMK hold		Swing

2011

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Manamadurai

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	M. Gunasekaran	83,535	51.68
	DMK	Tamilarasi A	69,515	43.01
	BSP	Murugavelrajan K	2,883	1.78
	IND.	Velmurugan O	1,766	1.09
	BJP	Viswanatha Gopalan V	1,185	0.73
Majority			14,020	8.67
Turnout			1,61,714	76.66
	AIADMK hold		Swing

References

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