Tenkasi Vidhan Sabha Constituency

Tenkasi is a Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituency of the State of Tamil Nadu in India.

Areas after delimitation order of 2008

Veerakeralamputhur Taluk, Tenkasi Taluk (Part) Kuthukalvalasai, Pattakurichi, Tiruchitrambalam, Melapavoor, Kulasekarapatti, Gunaramanallur, Pattappathu, Courtallam, Courtallam Slopes R.F., Ayiraperi, Mathalamparai, Sillaraipuravu, Kallurani, Thippanampatti and Avudaiyanoor villages. Tenkasi (M), Sundarapandiapuram (TP), Ilanji (TP), Melagaram (TP) and Courtalam (TP).

General Election 2021

TOTAL ELECTORS: 292538, TURN OUT TOTAL: 214108 (73.19%)

CANDIDATE	SEX	AGE	CATEGORY	PARTY	VALID VOTES POLLED	% VOTES POLLED
1 PALANI NADAR.S	M	68	GEN	INC	89315	41.71
2 SELVA MOHANDAS PANDIAN.S	M	51	GEN	ADMK	88945	41.54
3 VINCENTRAJ. R	M	41	GEN	NTK	15336	7.16
4 MOHAMED. S	M	43	GEN	AMMKMNKZ	9944	4.64
5 THIRUMALAIMUTHU. R	M	44	GEN	MNM	2188	1.02
6 MADASAMY. A	M	34	GEN	IND	1978	0.92
7 NOTA	NOTA			NOTA	1159	0.54
8 CHANDRASEGAR. S	M	48	SC	PT	878	0.41
9 UDHAYAKUMAR. K.M	M	37	GEN	ADK	690	0.32
10 RAMESH. R	M	29	GEN	IND	684	0.32
11 PALANIMURUGAN. P	M	44	GEN	IND	628	0.29
12 REEGANKUMAR. M	M	34	SC	IND	495	0.23
13 AROKKIYA PRABHU.J	M	31	GEN	IND	428	0.2
14 JEGANATHAN. M	M	35	SC	AMPK	416	0.19
15 SELVAKUMAR. R	M	39	GEN	NIDP	319	0.15
16 DOCTOR. KARUPPASAMY.S	M	64	SC	IND	216	0.1
17 MUGUNDHAN. K	M	41	GEN	MIDP	195	0.09
18 PALANIKUMAR. A	M	42	GEN	IND	175	0.08
19 SURESHKUMAR. S	M	45	GEN	APTADMK	119	0.06

General Election 2016

TOTAL ELECTORS : 263584, TURNOUT TOTAL: 202775 (76.93%)

CANDIDATE NAME	SEX	AGE	CATEGORY	PARTY	VALID VOTES POLLED	% VOTES POLLED
1 SELVAMOHANDAS PANDIAN S	M	46	GEN	ADMK	86339	42.58
2 PALANI NADAR S	M	64	GEN	INC	85877	42.35
3 SELVI B	F	27	GEN	BJP	11716	5.78
4 CHARLES N.D.S	M	55	GEN	TMC(M)	7324	3.61
5 None of the Above				NOTA	3391	1.67
6 MUTHUKUMAR C	M	25	GEN	NTK	2898	1.43
7 MADASAMY A	M	29	GEN	IND	1621	0.80
8 SEETHARAMAN P	M	34	GEN	PMK	1222	0.60
9 PERIYA DURAI P	M	45	GEN	AIFB	885	0.44
10 UTHAMI K	M	39	GEN	IND	562	0.28
11 CHELLADURAI T	M	42	SC	TMMK	489	0.24
12 REEGANKUMAR M	M	30	SC	IND	451	0.22

2011 general election results

Candidate	Sex	Age	Category	Party	Votes polled	% Votes polled
1 SARATH KUMAR.R	M	56	GEN	AIADMK	92253	54.30
2 KARUPPASAMI PANDIAN.Y	M	62	GEN	DMK	69286	40.78
3 ANBURAJ.S.V	M	30	GEN	BJP	2698	1.59
4 ARUMUGAM.S	M	46	GEN	ABHM	1507	0.89
5 MARIAPPAN.D	M	42	GEN	IND	1140	0.67
6 VETHALA IYYANKAN.M	M	42	GEN	IND	1080	0.64
7 PARAMASIVAN.S	M	35	GEN	IND	954	0.56
8 KANNAN.V	M	31	SC	BSP	501	0.29
9 RAMANATHAN.G	M	39	GEN	IND	491	0.29

Election held before the delimitation order of 2008

2006 assembly election results

1 . KARUPPASAMY PANDIAN.V was DMK candidate. He polled 69755 votes.
2 . UDAYASURIYAN,RAMA was MDMK candidate. He polled 51097 votes.
3 . RAVI ARUNAN.K was BJP candidate. He polled 5190 votes.
4 . KAMARAJ.S was DMDK candidate. He polled 5081 votes.
5 . CHANDRAN.S was BSP candidate. He polled 2607 votes.
6 . MARIAPPAN.N was an independent candidate. He polled 2095 votes.
7 . MUTHURAJA.A was AIFB candidate. He polled 1645 votes.
8 . BALASUBRAMANIAN.K was an independent candidate. He polled 1166 votes.
9 . THANGAPPAN.S.S was an independent candidate. He polled 423 votes.
10 . RAVICHANDRAN.R was RLD candidate. He polled 315 votes.
11 . ARUMUGASAMY.P was an independent candidate. He polled 196 votes.
TOTAL VALID VOTES POLLED: 139570