Saidapet (state assembly constituency)

Saidapet
Saidapet
Constituency for the State Assembly
Constituency details
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Chennai
LS constituency	Chennai South
Total electors	2,78,995
Most successful party	DMK (10 times)
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA	Ma. Subramanian
Party	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Elected year	2021

Saidapet is a constituency of the legislative assembly of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It covers the city of Saidapet in Chennai district^[2] and forms a part of Chennai South constituency for elections to the Parliament of India.

Madras State[]

Year	Winner
1952	T. P. Elumalai and	Indian National Congress
1957		Indian National Congress
1962	Munu Adhi	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1967	M. Karunanidhi	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Tamil Nadu[]

Assembly	Year	Winner
Fifth	1971	M. Karunanidhi	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Sixth	1977	D. Purushothaman	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Seventh	1980	D. Purushothaman	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Eighth	1984	Saidai Sa. Duraisamy	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Ninth	1989		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Tenth	1991		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Eleventh	1996	K. Saidai Kittu	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Twelfth	2001		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Twelfth	2001	Radha Ravi	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Thirteenth	2006	G. Senthamizhan	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Thirteenth	2006	G. Senthamizhan	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Fourteenth	2011	G. Senthamizhan	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Fifteenth	2016	Ma.Subramanian	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Sixteenth	2021	Ma.Subramanian	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election Results[]

Vote share of Winning candidates

2021			50.38%
2016			47.18%
2011			51.78%
2006			46.24%
2001			48.13%
1996			58.10%
1991			57.37%
1989			47.05%
1984			49.35%
1980			47.95%
1977			36.70%
1971			54.46%
1967			60.96%
1962			58.08%
1957			55.14%
1952			15.89%

2021[]

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Saidapet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Ma. Subramanian	80,194	50.38%	3.20%
	AIADMK	Saidai Duraisamy	50,786	31.91%	-5.60%
	MNM	Snegapriya	13,454	8.45%
	NTK	Suresh Kumar. B	10,717	6.73%	5.11%
	AMMK	G. Senthamizhan	2,081	1.31%
	NOTA	Nota	1,158	0.73%	-1.38%
	BSP	Kottur Kumar. R	274	0.17%	-0.02%
	RPI(A)	Sagayamary. N	209	0.13%
	Independent	Sivasankar. S. R	182	0.11%
	Independent	Balaji. V	145	0.09%
	Independent	Kandhasamy. R	141	0.09%
Margin of victory			29,408	18.48%	8.80%
Turnout			1,59,169	57.05%	-2.52%
Rejected ballots			653	0.41%
Registered electors			2,78,995
	DMK hold		Swing	3.20%

2016[]

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Saidapet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Ma. Subramanian	79,279	47.18%	3.23%
	AIADMK	Ponnayan. C	63,024	37.51%	-14.27%
	BJP	Kalidass. V	6,000	3.57%	1.61%
	PMK	Sahadevan. T. R.	5,913	3.52%
	CPI	Elumalai. S	5,221	3.11%
	NOTA	None Of The Above	3,541	2.11%
	NTK	Manoharan. M	2,725	1.62%
	BSP	Murugesan. S	330	0.20%	-0.12%
	Independent	Gokularajan. C	251	0.15%
	Independent	Subramani. M	225	0.13%
	YSRCP	Vishnuram. M	207	0.12%
Margin of victory			16,255	9.67%	1.85%
Turnout			1,68,018	59.57%	-10.84%
Registered electors			2,82,052
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-4.59%

2011[]

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Saidapet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Senthamizhan. G	79,856	51.78%	5.54%
	DMK	Msh Kumaar. M	67,785	43.95%
	BJP	Kalidass. V	3,018	1.96%	0.93%
	Makkal Manadu	Chandrasekar. S	878	0.57%
	BSP	Pragalathan. P. M	481	0.31%
	Independent	P. Jagadish Kumar	381	0.25%
	Independent	Rajasekar. T	288	0.19%
	Independent	Sudhakar. K	252	0.16%
	Independent	Sridhar. P	207	0.13%
	Independent	Murali. R	173	0.11%
	Independent	Purushothaman. A. N	168	0.11%
Margin of victory			12,071	7.83%	4.23%
Turnout			2,19,038	70.41%	4.29%
Registered electors			1,54,225
	AIADMK hold		Swing	5.54%

2006[]

2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Saidapet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Senthamizhan. G.	75,973	46.24%
	PMK	Baskaran. C. R.	70,068	42.65%
	DMDK	Venugopal. R.	11,675	7.11%
	BJP	Ranganathan. K.	1,692	1.03%
	Independent	Ravi. P. S.	780	0.47%
	Independent	Natarajan. G.	705	0.43%
	Independent	Kandasamy. P.	564	0.34%
	Independent	Mohan. M.	469	0.29%
	Independent	Ramu. A.	425	0.26%
	AIFB	Viswanathan. E.	368	0.22%
		Sriram. S.	266	0.16%
Margin of victory			5,905	3.59%	0.59%
Turnout			1,64,295	66.12%	19.90%
Registered electors			2,48,483
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	-1.88%

2001[]

2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Saidapet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Perumal. V	62,118	48.13%	-9.97%
	PMK	Baskaran. C. R	58,237	45.12%
	MDMK	Subramani. P	5,996	4.65%	1.56%
	Independent	Stephen Denis. M	691	0.54%
		Gunasekaran. M. L	581	0.45%
	Independent	Elango. M	516	0.40%
	Independent	Viswanathan. S	327	0.25%
	Independent	Palanivelu . V. K	235	0.18%
	Independent	Govindsamy. D	166	0.13%
	Independent	Pachiappan. V Alias Eagai K. V. Ramkumar	112	0.09%
	Independent	Paramasivam. C	97	0.08%
Margin of victory			3,881	3.01%	-19.80%
Turnout			1,29,076	46.22%	-10.15%
Registered electors			2,79,266
	DMK hold		Swing	-9.97%

1996[]

1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Saidapet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Saidai Kittu. K.	76,031	58.10%	21.37%
	AIADMK	Saidai Duraisamy. S.	46,178	35.29%	-22.09%
	MDMK	Panneerselvam. M. R.	4,036	3.08%
	BJP	Ravindran. C.	1,869	1.43%	-0.43%
	PMK	Venugopal. P.	1,638	1.25%
	SHS	Kannan. P.	92	0.07%
	Independent	Pachaiappan. V.	83	0.06%
	Independent	Vinayagam. L.	79	0.06%
	Independent	Subramani. L. P.	78	0.06%
	Independent	Harikrishnan. M. V.	72	0.06%
	Independent	Venkatraman. G.	65	0.05%
Margin of victory			29,853	22.81%	2.16%
Turnout			1,30,871	56.37%	2.90%
Registered electors			2,36,503
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	0.72%

1991[]

1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Saidapet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Balan M. K.	63,235	57.37%	36.87%
	DMK	Sridhar R. S.	40,473	36.72%	-10.33%
	PMK	Jayachandran P.	3,038	2.76%
	BJP	Nandakumar S.	2,053	1.86%
	JP	Krishnamoorthy K.	715	0.65%
	Independent	Sankar J.	188	0.17%
	Independent	Ganesan K.	91	0.08%
	Independent	Elumalai N.	79	0.07%
	Independent	Ganesh M.	77	0.07%
	Independent	Madavan S.	59	0.05%
	Independent	Charles L.	55	0.05%
Margin of victory			22,762	20.65%	-5.89%
Turnout			1,10,216	53.47%	-12.64%
Registered electors			2,09,145
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	10.33%

1989[]

1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Saidapet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	R. S. Sridhar	57,767	47.05%	-2.12%
	AIADMK	Saidai S. Durasmay	25,178	20.51%	-28.84%
	INC	S. M. Krishnan	18,551	15.11%
	AIADMK	V. J. M. Charles	16,912	13.77%	-35.58%
	Independent	K. Panchatcharam	947	0.77%
	Independent	Sadai V. Muthu	919	0.75%
	Independent	K. Ramachandran (Madhavai)	577	0.47%
	Independent	C. Umapathi	233	0.19%
	Independent	V. Pachaiappa Naiker	231	0.19%
	Independent	M. S. Arumani	148	0.12%
	Independent	Ekkai A. Munusamy	136	0.11%
Margin of victory			32,589	26.54%	26.36%
Turnout			1,22,784	66.11%	-0.26%
Registered electors			1,88,305
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-2.30%

1984[]

1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Saidapet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Saidai Duraisamy. Sa.	52,869	49.35%	3.41%
	DMK	Purushothaman. D.	52,679	49.17%	1.22%
	Independent	Ravikumar. C.	533	0.50%
	Independent	Mohanadass. T.	532	0.50%
	Independent	Madhavan. B.	520	0.49%
Margin of victory			190	0.18%	-1.84%
Turnout			1,07,133	66.36%	7.35%
Registered electors			1,66,613
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	1.40%

1980[]

1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Saidapet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Purushothaman. D	40,403	47.95%	11.25%
	AIADMK	Saithai Duraisamy. S	38,706	45.94%	16.37%
	JP	Subramani. A	4,870	5.78%
	Independent	Peter. A. J	282	0.33%
Margin of victory			1,697	2.01%	-5.12%
Turnout			84,261	59.01%	8.73%
Registered electors			1,44,121
	DMK hold		Swing	11.25%

1977[]

1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Saidapet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	D. Purushothaman	27,160	36.70%	-17.77%
	AIADMK	N. Kannan	21,882	29.56%
	JP	M. Nethaji	16,339	22.08%
	INC	K. Jagaveerapandian	8,176	11.05%	-32.66%
	Independent	P.M. Kanniah	357	0.48%
	Independent	N. Veeran	100	0.14%
Margin of victory			5,278	7.13%	-3.63%
Turnout			74,014	50.28%	-16.87%
Registered electors			1,48,319
	DMK hold		Swing	-17.77%

1971[]

1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Saidapet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	M Karunanidhi	63,334	54.46%	-6.50%
	INC	N Kamalingam	50,823	43.70%	6.13%
	Independent	R M Annamlai R M	1,034	0.89%
	Independent	S Krishnamurthy	943	0.81%
	Independent	M K Parasuram Prabhu	156	0.13%
Margin of victory			12,511	10.76%	-12.62%
Turnout			1,16,290	67.15%	-5.78%
Registered electors			1,77,248
	DMK hold		Swing	-6.50%

1967[]

1967 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Saidapet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	M. Karunanidhi	53,401	60.96%	2.88%
	INC	S. G. Vinayagamurthi	32,919	37.58%	0.18%
	Independent	D. Saradambal	665	0.76%
	Independent	M. Parasuram	327	0.37%
	Independent	M. Venugopal	290	0.33%
Margin of victory			20,482	23.38%	2.69%
Turnout			87,602	72.93%	6.93%
Registered electors			1,21,979
	DMK hold		Swing	2.88%

1962[]

1962 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Saidapet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Munu Adhi	37,123	58.08%
	INC	Vinayakam	23,902	37.40%	-17.74%
		N. S. Naidu	2,888	4.52%
Margin of victory			13,221	20.69%	4.10%
Turnout			63,913	66.00%	33.03%
Registered electors			99,751
	DMK gain from INC		Swing	2.94%

1957[]

1957 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Saidapet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	A. S. Doraiswami Reddiar	14,888	55.14%	39.25%
	Independent	N. P. Loganathan	10,410	38.55%
	Independent	A. Kamalathan	1,703	6.31%
Margin of victory			4,478	16.58%	14.25%
Turnout			27,001	32.97%	-52.05%
Registered electors			81,890
	INC hold		Swing	39.25%

1952[]

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Saidapet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	T. P. Elumalai	19,703	15.89%	15.89%
	INC	N. Ramakrishna Iyer	16,806	13.56%	13.56%
		R. Kannan	11,689	9.43%
	KMPP	M. S. Gnanaparakasam	11,390	9.19%
	KMPP	S. K. Govindaraja Naicker	10,298	8.31%
	Independent	V. Kanniappa Chetty	9,987	8.06%
	SP	E. K. Desikan	9,725	7.84%
	Independent	Rathinam	9,157	7.39%
		S. M. Naganathanam	8,955	7.22%
	SP	G. P. Madhavan	7,657	6.18%
	Independent	V. K. Palani	3,512	2.83%
Margin of victory			2,897	2.34%
Turnout			1,23,977	85.02%
Registered electors			1,45,818
	INC win (new seat)

References[]

^ "Form 21E (Return of Election)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
^ "Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Constituency Map". Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. Retrieved 23 January 2017.

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

2001 By-election

[1] "Form 21E (Return of Election)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2022.

[2] "Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Constituency Map". Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. Retrieved 23 January 2017.

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