Erode West (state assembly constituency)

Erode West is a state assembly constituency of Erode City in Erode District in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It consists of portions of the Perundurai and Erode taluks. It is included in Erode Parliamentary Constituency.^[1]

This constituency was newly formed, in the year of 2008, by dividing the integrated Erode Assembly Constituency. Erode West was one of 17 assembly constituencies to have VVPAT facility with EVMs in 2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election.^[2]

Boundaries[]

It covers the western part of Erode City Corporation to the Perundurai constituency limit on the west and Modakurichi Constituency limit on the south; a part of the city is also covered by these two constituencies. Also Bhavani constituency covers some part of the city in the north.

Demographics[]

The constituency has a significant number of Kongu Vellalar Gounder and Senguntha Mudaliar, Nadar and Adi Dravida communities.^[3]

Members of assembly[]

Elected members from this constituency are as follows,

Year	Winner
1996	N. K. K. Periasamy	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2001	K. S. Thennarasu	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2006	N. K. K. P. Raajah	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2011	K. V. Ramalingam	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2016	K. V. Ramalingam	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2021	S. Muthusamy	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election results[]

2021[]

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Erode West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DMK	S. Muthusamy	1,00,757	49.01
	AIADMK	K. V. Ramalingam	78,668	38.27
	NTK	Chandra kumar P	13,353	6.5
	MNM	Durai Sevugan	8,107	3.94
	None of the Above	NOTA	1,968	0.96
	AMMK	Sivasubramaniyan S	730	0.36
	BSP	Dhanalakshmi A	568	0.28
	Independent	Vimala M	434	0.21
	Independent	Muthusamy A	189	0.09
	Independent	VENGATESAN A	179	0.09
	Independent	Kalithass R	169	0.08
	API	Chandran M	113	0.05
	Ganasangam Party of India	Madhan K	108	0.05
	United States of India Party	Thangavel G	106	0.05
	Independent	Iyyavu R	434	0.04
	India Dravida Makkal Munnetra Katchi	Balasubramaniam K	54	0.03
Majority			21,089	10.74
Turnout			2,05,579	73.92
	DMK hold		Swing	-10.74

2016[]

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Erode West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	K. V. Ramalingam	82,297	43.46	-15.83
	DMK	S. Muthusamy	77,391	40.87	+40.87
	KMDK	Easwara Murthy M	7,477	3.95	+3.95
	MDMK	Murugan N	6,624	3.50	+3.50
	BJP	Palanisamy N P	4,177	2.21	-0.09
Majority			4,906	2.59	-22.14
Turnout			1,89,398	73.92	-5.39
	AIADMK hold		Swing	-15.83

2011[]

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Erode West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	K. V. Ramalingam	90,789	59.29	+59.29
	INC	Yuvaraja M	52,921	34.56	+34.56
	BJP	Palanisamy N P	3,516	2.30	+2.30
	IND	Venkatachalam K	1,371	0.90	+0.90
	IND	Tamilarasu M	1,183	0.77	+0.77
Majority			37,868	24.73	----
Turnout			1,53,193	79.31	New
	AIADMK win (new seat)

References[]

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

[1] "Tamil Nadu - Final Notification & Order" (PDF). Delimitation Commission of India. National Informatics Centre. Retrieved 28 January 2017.

[2] "EC to tighten grip on cash for votes". The Hindu.

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