Pudukkottai (state assembly constituency)

Pudukottai is a state assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu. Elections and winners in the constituency are listed below. Election was not held in year 1957.It comes under Tiruchirappalli (Lok Sabha constituency) for Parliament elections.

Madras State

Year	Winner	Party
1952	Balakrishnan		Tamil Nadu Toilers' Party
1962	A. Thiagarajan		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1967	Rajakumar Vijaya Raghunatha Thondaiman		Indian National Congress

Tamil Nadu

Year	Winner	Party
1971	M.Sathiyamurthy		Indian National Congress
1977	Rajakumar Vijaya Raghunatha Thondaiman		Indian National Congress
1980	Rajkumar Vijaya Ragunatha Thondaiman		Indian National Congress (I)
1984	J. Mohammad Gani		Indian National Congress
1989	A. Periyannan		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1991	C. Swaminathan		Indian National Congress
1996	A. Periannan		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1997 *	P. Mari Ayya		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2001	Dr. C. Vijayabaskar		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2006	R. Nedunchezhiyan		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2011	S. P. Muthukumaran		Communist Party of India
2012*	V. R. Karthik Thondaiman		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2016	Periyannan Arasu		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2021	Dr. v. Muthuraja		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

* By-Elections were held on the account of vacancy due to the demise of the sitting MLA

Election Results

2021

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Pudukkottai

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	V. Muthuraja	85,802	47.7
	AIADMK	V. R. Karthik Thondaiman	72,801	40.47
	NTK	Sasikumar	11,503	6.39
	MNM	Moorthy	3,948	2.19
Majority
Turnout			1,79,892
	DMK hold		Swing

2016

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Pudukkottai

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Periyannan Arassu	66,739	39.19
	AIADMK	Karthik Thondaiman	64,655	37.97
	IND	Chokkalingam M	22,973	13.49
	DMDK	Jahir Hussain N	7,810	4.59
	NOTA	None of the above	1,637	0.96
Majority			2,084	1.22
Turnout			1,70,509	74.85
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing

Bypoll 2012

Bye-election, 2012: Pudukkottai

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	V. R. Karthik Thondaiman	1,01,998	71.16
	DMDK	Jahir Hussain. N.	30,500	21.28
	IJK	Srinivasan N	4,495	3.14
	MNMK	Arivalagan	1,370	0.96
Majority			71,498	49.88
Turnout			1,43,346	73.49
	AIADMK gain from CPI		Swing

2011

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Pudukkottai

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	S. P. Muthukumaran	65,466	46.78
	DMK	Periyannan Arassu	62,365	44.56
	IJK	Srinivasan N	4,098	2.93
	IND	Bharathan V	3,901	2.79
	BJP	Selvam Pala	1,748	1.25
Majority			3,101	2.22
Turnout			1,40,243	79.05
	CPI gain from AIADMK		Swing

References

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