Perambur (state assembly constituency)

Perambur
Perambur
Constituency for the State Assembly
Constituency details
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Chennai
LS constituency	Chennai North
Total electors	315,884
Most successful party	DMK (8 times)
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA	R. D. Sekar
Party	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Elected year	2021

Perambur is the legislative assembly, that includes the city, Perambur. Perambur assembly constituency is part of Chennai North (Lok Sabha constituency).

Madras State[]

Year	Winner
1952	S. Pakkirisamy Pillai	Socialist Party
1957	Satyavani Muthu Pakkiriswami Pillai	IND IND
1962		Indian National Congress
1967	Satyavani Muthu	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Tamil Nadu[]

Assembly	Year	Winner
Fifth	1971-77	Satyavani Muthu	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Sixth	1977-80	S. Balan	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Seventh	1980-84	S. Balan	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Eighth	1984-89	Parithi Elamvazhuthi	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Ninth	1989-91	Chengai Sivam	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Tenth	1991-96		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Eleventh	1996-2001	Chengai Sivam	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Twelfth	2001-06	K. Mahendran	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Thirteenth	2006-11	K. Mahendran	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Fourteenth	2011-16	A. Soundararajan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Fifteenth	2016- 2017 disqualification by Assembly Speaker	P. Vetrivel^[2]	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
By-Election 2019	2019-Incumbent	R. D. Sekar^[3]	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Sixteenth	2021	R. D. Sekar	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election Results[]

Vote share of Winning candidates

2021			52.93%
2019 By-election			56.32%
2016			42.39%
2011			52.26%
2006			44.83%
2001			52.42%
1996			67.29%
1991			54.06%
1989			53.86%
1984			53.04%
1980			54.59%
1977			42.74%
1971			56.37%
1967			54.19%
1962			54.48%
1957			24.60%
1952			42.08%

2021[]

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Perambur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	R. D. Sekar	1,05,267	52.53
	AIADMK	N. R. Dhanapalan	50,291	25.1
	NTK	Merlin Suganthi. S	19,821	9.89
	MNM	Ponnusamy. A	17,072	8.52
	AMMK	Lakshmi Narayanan. E	4,042	2.02
	NOTA	Nota	1,515	0.76%	-0.92%
	BSP	Suresh. C	515	0.26%	0.07%
		Soosai. M. A	296	0.15%
	SUCI	Sebastin. J	194	0.10%
	Independent	Satheesh. J	174	0.09%
	Independent	Parthipan. P	172	0.09%
Margin of victory			54,976	27.64%	27.37%
Turnout			198,872	62.96%	-1.99%
Rejected ballots			390	0.20%
Registered electors			315,884
	DMK hold		Swing	10.55%

By-Election 2019[]

Bye-election, 2019: Perambur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	R. D. Sekar	1,06,394	56.32	+14.21
	AIADMK	R. S. Raajesh	38,371	20.31	-22.09
	MNM	U. Priyadarshini	20,508	10.86	+10.86
	NTK	S. Merlin Suganthi	8,611	4.56	+2.84
	AMMK	P. Vetrivel	6,281	3.32	+3.32
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,511	1.33	NA
Majority			68,023	35.97
Turnout			1,89,093	64.39
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing

2016[]

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Perambur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	P. Vetrivel	79,974	42.39%
	DMK	N R Dhanapalan	79,455	42.11%	0.61%
	CPI(M)	A. Soundararajan	10,281	5.45%	-46.81%
	BJP	Prakash R	4,582	2.43%	0.73%
	PMK	M. Venkatesh Perumal	3,685	1.95%
	NTK	S Vetri Thamizhan	3,236	1.72%
	NOTA	None Of The Above	3,167	1.68%
	YSRCP	S Suresh	387	0.21%
	BSP	N Raj	363	0.19%	-0.37%
	Independent	J Praveen Kumar	319	0.17%
	Independent	R Saravana Perumal	304	0.16%
Margin of victory			519	0.28%	-10.48%
Turnout			188,681	64.95%	-4.79%
Registered electors			290,522
	AIADMK gain from CPI(M)		Swing	-9.87%

2011[]

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Perambur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Soundararajan A	84,668	52.26%	7.42%
	DMK	N. R. Dhanapalan	67,245	41.50%
	BJP	R. Ravindrakumar	2,758	1.70%
	JMM	Vijayakumar K	961	0.59%
	BSP	Palani. S	912	0.56%	-0.23%
	Independent	Gopi Anand C	861	0.53%
	IJK	Jesu I	753	0.46%
	Independent	Balakrishnan S	699	0.43%
	Independent	Balakrishnan A	662	0.41%
	Independent	Santhanam G	456	0.28%
	Independent	Muralidharan B	339	0.21%
Margin of victory			17,423	10.75%	9.22%
Turnout			232,344	69.74%	1.86%
Registered electors			162,026
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	7.42%

2006[]

2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Perambur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Mahendran. K.	81,765	44.83%	-7.59%
	MDMK	Manimaran. P.	78,977	43.30%	40.25%
	DMDK	Lingam. J.	15,881	8.71%
	BSP	Perumal. V.	1,449	0.79%
	JP	Viswanathan Kakkan. P.	952	0.52%
	SP	Jeenapriya. I.	677	0.37%
	Independent	Ravichandran. D.	662	0.36%
	Independent	Purushothaman. S.	584	0.32%
	Independent	Murthy. G.	474	0.26%
	Independent	Deiva. Swarup Chandran	412	0.23%
	Independent	Baskar. E.	225	0.12%
Margin of victory			2,788	1.53%	-11.44%
Turnout			182,379	67.87%	19.91%
Registered electors			268,704
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	-7.59%

2001[]

2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Perambur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Mahendran K.	69,613	52.42%	45.74%
	DMK	Chengai Sivam	52,390	39.45%	-27.84%
	MDMK	R. Natarajan	4,055	3.05%
	Independent	S. Ravi	2,702	2.03%
	Independent	R. Gunasekaran	1,700	1.28%
	Independent	K. Rama Rao	1,012	0.76%
	Independent	J. Meganathan	492	0.37%
	Independent	Murthy. G	358	0.27%
	Independent	S. Thamilarasi	250	0.19%
	Independent	M. V. Murali	227	0.17%
Margin of victory			17,223	12.97%	-30.33%
Turnout			132,799	47.96%	-13.04%
Registered electors			276,886
	CPI(M) gain from DMK		Swing	-14.87%

1996[]

1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Perambur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Chengaisivam	90,683	67.29%	26.54%
	AIADMK	Neelakandan. V.	32,332	23.99%	-30.07%
	CPI(M)	Sarala. R.	9,008	6.68%
	BJP	Nageswara Rao. G.	1,910	1.42%	-0.27%
	Independent	Ramarao. K.	355	0.26%
		Sundaramurthy. V.	208	0.15%
	Independent	Saravanan. L.	138	0.10%
	Independent	Anandajothi. R.	126	0.09%
Margin of victory			58,351	43.30%	29.99%
Turnout			134,760	61.00%	5.47%
Registered electors			227,398
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	13.23%

1991[]

1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Perambur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Dr. M. P. Sekar	62,759	54.06%	47.58%
	DMK	Chengai Sivam	47,307	40.75%	-13.11%
	BJP	V. K. Sampath	1,960	1.69%
	JP	Tspe Bakthan	1,588	1.37%
		D. Kanagasabapathy	1,383	1.19%
	Independent	I. Vijaya	440	0.38%
		G. Manimaran	135	0.12%
	Independent	S. M. Veerappan	115	0.10%
	Independent	M. A. Kalidoss	89	0.08%
	Independent	Sukumar Alias Kanchi Sukumaran	81	0.07%
	Independent	S. Palaniappan	77	0.07%
Margin of victory			15,452	13.31%	-19.48%
Turnout			116,088	55.53%	-11.73%
Registered electors			214,067
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	0.20%

1989[]

1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Perambur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Chengai Sivam Alias Sajaisvam J.	65,681	53.86%	0.83%
	INC	Viswanathan. P.	25,691	21.07%
	Independent	Mahenathan. V.	15,747	12.91%
	AIADMK	Panchalaim M.	7,908	6.49%	-39.39%
	Independent	Thirumalai. S.	4,238	3.48%
	Independent	Ganesekaran. R.	1,037	0.85%
	Independent	Prabanandham. B.	351	0.29%
	Independent	Palaniappan. S.	241	0.20%
	Independent	Sreeramulu. M.	229	0.19%
	Independent	Ramadoss. P.	223	0.18%
	Independent	Meganathan. S.	197	0.16%
Margin of victory			39,990	32.80%	25.63%
Turnout			121,939	67.26%	4.51%
Registered electors			184,148
	DMK hold		Swing	0.83%

1984[]

1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Perambur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Parithi Elamyazhuthi	53,325	53.04%	-1.55%
	AIADMK	Sathiavanimuthu	46,121	45.87%
	Independent	Sankaralingam	521	0.52%
	Independent	V. Malaichamy	199	0.20%
	Independent	K. Anandaraj	199	0.20%
	Independent	S. Munusamy	93	0.09%
	Independent	Rangan	83	0.08%
Margin of victory			7,204	7.17%	-2.01%
Turnout			100,541	62.75%	1.09%
Registered electors			165,376
	DMK hold		Swing	-1.55%

1980[]

1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Perambur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Balan. S	49,269	54.59%	11.84%
	CPI(M)	Murugaian. V	40,989	45.41%
Margin of victory			8,280	9.17%	-7.69%
Turnout			90,258	61.65%	17.96%
Registered electors			148,248
	DMK hold		Swing	11.84%

1977[]

1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Perambur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	S. Balan	34,134	42.74%	-13.62%
	AIADMK	T. Raja	20,666	25.88%
	JP	T.P. Elumalai	16,675	20.88%
	INC	V.M. Perumal	8,385	10.50%	-32.06%
Margin of victory			13,468	16.86%	3.05%
Turnout			79,860	43.70%	-22.09%
Registered electors			184,688
	DMK hold		Swing	-13.62%

1971[]

1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Perambur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Sathivanimuthu	49,070	56.37%	2.18%
	INC	D Sulochana	37,047	42.56%	-2.66%
	Independent	A Shammugam	939	1.08%
Margin of victory			12,023	13.81%	4.83%
Turnout			87,056	65.78%	-8.90%
Registered electors			135,439
	DMK hold		Swing	2.18%

1967[]

1967 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Perambur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	S. Muthu	40,364	54.19%	10.68%
	INC	D. Sulochana	33,677	45.21%	-9.26%
	Independent	Muthuvelu	445	0.60%
Margin of victory			6,687	8.98%	-1.99%
Turnout			74,486	74.69%	-1.40%
Registered electors			101,856
	DMK gain from INC		Swing	-0.29%

1962[]

1962 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Perambur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	D. Sulochana	40,451	54.48%	31.85%
	DMK	Sathavahi Mutu	32,309	43.51%
		S. Dhanapal	1,494	2.01%
Margin of victory			8,142	10.97%	8.99%
Turnout			74,254	76.09%	2.81%
Registered electors			100,407
	INC gain from Independent		Swing	29.87%

1957[]

1957 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Perambur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Pakkiriswami Pillai	34,579	24.60%
	INC	T. S. Govindaswamy	31,806	22.63%	-11.44%
		Sathaiavanimuthu (Sc)	27,638	19.66%
	INC	T. Rajagopal (Sc)	23,682	16.85%	-17.22%
	Independent	K. P. Samundiswaran (Sc)	14,915	10.61%
	CPI	Gailapathi	4,233	3.01%
	CPI	Karuppannan (Sc)	3,698	2.63%
Margin of victory			2,773	1.97%	-6.05%
Turnout			140,551	73.28%	18.93%
Registered electors			191,799
	Independent gain from SP		Swing	-17.48%

1952[]

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Perambur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	S. Pakkiriswami Pillai	14,190	42.08%
	INC	M. Santhosam	11,486	34.06%	34.06%
	CPI	T. M. Arumugham	5,698	16.90%
	AIFB	Malick Basha Sahib	653	1.94%
	Independent	N. Gopalakrishnan	577	1.71%
	Independent	S. Parthasarathy	394	1.17%
	Independent	H. H. L. Stone	367	1.09%
	Justice Party	P. R. Kodandarama Mudaliar	353	1.05%
Margin of victory			2,704	8.02%
Turnout			33,718	54.35%
Registered electors			62,038
	SP win (new seat)

References[]

^ "Form 21E (Return of Election)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
^ "2016 Tamil Nadu General Election: Constituency Data Summary" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 12. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
^ "Form 21E (Return of Election)" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 December 2021.

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

Coordinates: 13°06′26″N 80°14′40″E / 13.10727°N 80.24448°E / 13.10727; 80.24448

[1] "Form 21E (Return of Election)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 27 December 2021.

[2] "2016 Tamil Nadu General Election: Constituency Data Summary" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 12. Retrieved 27 May 2016.

[3] "Form 21E (Return of Election)" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 December 2021.

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