Pudukkottai (state assembly constituency)

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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.^[1]

Madras State[edit | edit source]

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

Tamil Nadu[edit | edit source]

Year	Winner
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[edit | edit source]

2021[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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