Tiruchirappalli West Assembly constituency

Tiruchirappalli (West)
Tiruchirappalli (West)
Constituency No. 140 for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Tiruchirappalli
Lok Sabha constituency	Tiruchirappalli
Established	2008
Total electors	238,920
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	17th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent K. N. Nehru
Party	DMK
Alliance	SPA
Elected year	2021

Tiruchirappalli (West) is one of the 234 state legislative assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu.^[1] It comes under Tiruchirappalli Lok Sabha constituency for Parliament elections and includes Ward Nos. 39-60 of Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation.

In the 2021 MLA election, the DMK party's candidate K. N. Nehru won against the candidate of AIADMK.

Members of the Legislative Assembly[edit | edit source]

Year	Winner
2011	M. Mariam Pichai	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2011 by-election	M. Paranjothi
2016	K. N. Nehru	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2021
2026

Vote share of winning candidates

2026			44.94%
2021			65.27%
2016			51.30%
2011 by-election			54.17%
2011			50.21%

2026 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Tiruchirappalli (West)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	K. N. Nehru	88,235	44.94	20.33
	TVK	G. Ramamoorthy	83,449	42.50	New
	AMMK	M. Rajasekharan	14,136	7.20	New
	NTK	Bhuvaneswari	7,470	3.80	4.89
	NOTA	NOTA	1,098	0.56	0.61
Margin of victory			4,786	2.44	44.59
Turnout			1,96,347
Rejected ballots
Registered electors			2,35,903
	DMK hold		Swing	20.33

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Tiruchirappalli (West)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	K. N. Nehru	118,133	65.27	+13.97
	AIADMK	V. Padmanathan	33,024	18.25	−17.22
	NTK	V. Vinodh	15,725	8.69	+6.97
	MNM	M. Abubacker Siddiq	10,546	5.83	New
	SDPI	R. Abdullah Hassan Faizy	2,545	1.41	New
	NOTA	NOTA	2,117	1.17	−1.12
Margin of victory			85,109	47.03	31.19
Turnout			1,80,982	67.23	−3.20
Rejected ballots			123	0.07
Registered electors			2,69,194
	DMK hold		Swing	13.97

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Tiruchirappalli (West)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	K. N. Nehru	92,049	51.30	+5.74
	AIADMK	R. Manoharan	63,634	35.47	−14.75
	DMDK	A. Joseph Jerald	11,469	6.39	New
	NOTA	NOTA	4,100	2.29	New
	NTK	Sethu. Manoharan	3,080	1.72	New
	PMK	K. Vijayaraghavan	1,780	0.99	New
	IJK	P. Satheeshkumar	1,012	0.56	New
	WPOI	Y. Jamal Mohamed	916	0.51	New
Margin of victory			28,415	15.84	11.18
Turnout			1,79,423	70.43	−4.61
Registered electors			2,54,751
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	1.09

By-election, 2011: Tiruchirappalli West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	M. Paranjothi	69,029	54.17	3.96
	DMK	K. N. Nehru	54,345	42.65	2.91
	IJK	M. M. Sadiq	906	0.41	0.55
	UUK	S. Kalasthri	663	0.52	0.52
Margin of victory			14,684	11.52	6.87
Turnout			1,27,433	61.12	13.92
	AIADMK hold		Swing	3.96

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Tiruchirappalli West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	M. Mariam Pichai	77,492	50.21	+50.21
	DMK	K. N. Nehru	70,313	45.56	+45.56
	BJP	R. Thirumal	2,569	1.66	+1.66
	IJK	P. Selvam	1,487	0.96	+0.96
Margin of victory			7,179	4.65
Turnout			1,54,321	75.04
Registered electors			2,05,662
	AIADMK win (new seat)

↑ "New Constituencies, Post-Delimitation 2008" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2012.
↑ "Tiruchirappalli (West) Election Result". Retrieved 11 May 2023.
↑ "Assembly wise Candidate Valid Votes count 2016, Tamil Nadu" (PDF). www.elections.tn.gov.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 April 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2022.