Vasudevanallur (state assembly constituency)

Vasudevanallur
Vasudevanallur
Constituency for the State Assembly
Constituency details
State	Tamil Nadu
Total electors	2,41,748
Most successful party	DMK (3 times)
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA	Dr. T. Sadhan Tirumalaikumar
Party	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Elected year	2021

Vasudevanallur is a legislative assembly constituency in Tirunelveli district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.^[1] It is a Scheduled Caste reserved constituency. Elections and winners in the constituency are listed below. It is part of the Tenkasi Lok Sabha constituency.

Demographics[]

The Devendra Kula Velalar, Maravar, Senguntha Mudaliar, Nadar and Yadhava castes are highly concentrated in this constituency.^[2]

Madras State[]

Year	Winner	Party
1967	A. Velladurai		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Tamil Nadu[]

Year	Winner
1971	A. Velladurai	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1977	R. Krishnan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1980	R. Krishnan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1984	R. Eswaran	Indian National Congress
1989	R. Eswaran	Indian National Congress
1991	R. Eswaran	Indian National Congress
1996	R. Eswaran	Tamil Maanila Congress
2001	R. Eswaran	Tamil Maanila Congress
2006	Dr. T. Sadhan Tirumalaikumar	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2011	Dr. S. Duraiappa	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2016		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2021	Dr. T. Sadhan Tirumalaikumar	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election Results[]

Vote share of Winning candidates

2021			39.08%
2016			45.06%
2011			56.77%
2006			40.27%
2001			47.05%
1996			32.50%
1991			58.28%
1989			32.15%
1984			62.34%
1980			50.51%
1977			33.25%
1971			56.96%
1967			50.24%

2021[]

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Vasudevanallur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Dr. T. Sadhan Tirumalaikumar	68,730	39.08%
	AIADMK	Manoharan A	66,363	37.73%	-7.33%
	NTK	Mathivanan S S	16,731	9.51%	7.07%
	AMMK	Thangaraj S	13,376	7.61%
	PT	Petchiammal V	3,651	2.08%
	NOTA	Nota	2,171	1.23%	-0.45%
	MNM	Chinnasamy M	2,139	1.22%
	NGPP	Eswaran M	795	0.45%
	Independent	Ramamoorthy P	716	0.41%
		Jayakumar P L A	544	0.31%
	MIDP	Karuppasamy K	342	0.19%
Margin of victory			2,367	1.35%	-10.09%
Turnout			1,75,881	72.75%	-1.38%
Registered electors			2,41,748
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-5.98%

2016[]

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Vasudevanallur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Manoharan A	73,904	45.06%	-11.71%
	PT	Anbalagan S	55,146	33.62%
	CPI	Samuthirakani R	13,735	8.37%
	BJP	Rajkumar N	7,121	4.34%	2.69%
	NTK	Palanisamy G	4,008	2.44%
	Independent	Arunachalam M	3,865	2.36%
	NOTA	None Of The Above	2,763	1.68%
	Independent	Samy M	1,343	0.82%
	PMK	Kasipandiyan K	1,198	0.73%
	BSP	Nirmal Kumar M	522	0.32%	-0.48%
	Independent	Manokaran M	402	0.25%
Margin of victory			18,758	11.44%	-8.34%
Turnout			1,64,007	74.14%	-2.35%
Registered electors			2,21,225
	AIADMK hold		Swing	-11.71%

2011[]

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Vasudevanallur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Dr. S. Duraiappa	80,633	56.77%
	INC	Ganesan. S	52,543	37.00%
	BJP	Rajkumar. N	2,340	1.65%	-0.62%
	Independent	Ramalingam. M	2,291	1.61%
	Independent	Poosaipandi. V	1,862	1.31%
	BSP	Pandi. S	1,130	0.80%	-11.71%
	Independent	Pitchaikani. S	778	0.55%
	Independent	Thangamalai. G	449	0.32%
Margin of victory			28,090	19.78%	13.83%
Turnout			1,85,683	76.49%	6.09%
Registered electors			1,42,026
	AIADMK gain from MDMK		Swing	16.50%

2006[]

2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Vasudevanallur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	MDMK	Dr. T. Sadhan Tirumalaikumar	45,790	40.27%	26.81%
	CPI(M)	Krishnan. R	39,031	34.33%
	BSP	Anandan. D	14,220	12.51%
	DMDK	Pitchai. S.	6,390	5.62%
	AIFB	Babu. K	4,332	3.81%
	BJP	Selvakani. C	2,579	2.27%
	Independent	Chandrasekaran. K	1,363	1.20%
Margin of victory			6,759	5.94%	-5.37%
Turnout			1,13,705	70.40%	9.44%
Registered electors			1,61,517
	MDMK gain from TMC		Swing	-6.77%

2001[]

2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Vasudevanallur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TMC	R. Eswaran	48,019	47.05%	14.55%
	PT	Thangapandian S	36,467	35.73%
	MDMK	Ganesh Kumar G	13,742	13.46%
	Independent	Durai Raj S	2,775	2.72%
	Independent	Samuthirapandian T	1,066	1.04%
Margin of victory			11,552	11.32%	10.71%
Turnout			1,02,069	60.96%	-8.40%
Registered electors			1,67,586
	TMC hold		Swing	14.55%

1996[]

1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Vasudevanallur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TMC	R. Eswaran	32,693	32.50%
	INC	Suresh Babu. P.	32,077	31.89%	-26.39%
	CPI(M)	Krishnan. R.	20,302	20.18%	-16.45%
	Independent	Gopalakrishnan. V.	8,950	8.90%
	BJP	Singarayan. A.	2,843	2.83%
	PMK	Murugan. S.	1,705	1.69%
	Independent	Muniasamy. A.	502	0.50%
	Independent	Karuppasamy. R.	341	0.34%
	Independent	Karuppasamy. M.	308	0.31%
	Independent	Karadi Radasamy. V.	249	0.25%
	Independent	Chandrasekaran. A.	205	0.20%
Margin of victory			616	0.61%	-21.04%
Turnout			1,00,597	69.36%	4.01%
Registered electors			1,53,308
	TMC gain from INC		Swing	-25.78%

1991[]

1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Vasudevanallur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	R. Eswaran	54,688	58.28%	26.13%
	CPI(M)	Krishnan R.	34,374	36.63%	4.91%
	IUML	Paulraj K.	3,567	3.80%
		Madasamy S.	572	0.61%
	Independent	Karadi Madasamy V.	420	0.45%
	Independent	Manikkam A.	214	0.23%
Margin of victory			20,314	21.65%	21.22%
Turnout			93,835	65.35%	-6.74%
Registered electors			1,49,712
	INC hold		Swing	26.13%

1989[]

1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Vasudevanallur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	R. Eswaran	30,805	32.15%	-30.19%
	CPI(M)	Krishnan. R.	30,394	31.72%	-2.83%
	CPI	Kanagasabai. S.	17,325	18.08%
	AIADMK	Rengasay. T.	17,043	17.79%
	Independent	Sabapathy. K. S.	249	0.26%
Margin of victory			411	0.43%	-27.37%
Turnout			95,816	72.09%	1.67%
Registered electors			1,35,907
	INC hold		Swing	-30.19%

1984[]

1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Vasudevanallur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	R. Eswaran	50,303	62.34%	16.69%
	CPI(M)	Periasamy. M. S.	27,875	34.55%	-15.97%
	Independent	Muthiah. S.	865	1.07%
	Independent	Vijayan. V.	595	0.74%
	Independent	Maruthan K.	588	0.73%
	Independent	Sankarapandian. V.	460	0.57%
Margin of victory			22,428	27.80%	22.94%
Turnout			80,686	70.41%	13.35%
Registered electors			1,20,134
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	11.83%

1980[]

1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Vasudevanallur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)		33,107	50.51%	17.26%
	INC	Eswaran. R.	29,921	45.65%
	JP	Ayyadurai Alias Anantharaj	2,513	3.83%
Margin of victory			3,186	4.86%	-1.83%
Turnout			65,541	57.06%	6.27%
Registered electors			1,16,791
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	17.26%

1977[]

1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Vasudevanallur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)		20,092	33.25%
	CPI	I. Muthuraj	16,048	26.56%
	JP	Ayyadurai Alias Anantharaj	10,826	17.92%
	DMK	M. Duraisamy	10,330	17.10%	-39.86%
	Independent	S. Kattapan	2,472	4.09%
	Independent	K. Maruthan	650	1.08%
Margin of victory			4,044	6.69%	-7.22%
Turnout			60,418	50.79%	-14.90%
Registered electors			1,21,099
	CPI(M) gain from DMK		Swing	-23.70%

1971[]

1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Vasudevanallur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	A. Velladurai	35,954	56.96%	6.72%
	INC	Gopa Thevar A.	27,169	43.04%	3.15%
Margin of victory			8,785	13.92%	3.56%
Turnout			63,123	65.69%	-9.79%
Registered electors			99,614
	DMK hold		Swing	6.72%

1967[]

1967 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Vasudevanallur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DMK	A. Velladurai	33,865	50.24%
	INC	M. P. Swamy	26,885	39.89%
	CPI	K. C. Thevar	6,653	9.87%
Margin of victory			6,980	10.36%
Turnout			67,403	75.48%
Registered electors			92,896
	DMK win (new seat)

References[]

^ "Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Constituency Map". Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
^ "Flow of recycled promises in Vasudevanallur". The Hindu. Retrieved 26 November 2021.

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

[1] "Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Constituency Map". Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. Retrieved 22 January 2017.

[thehindu-2] "Flow of recycled promises in Vasudevanallur". The Hindu. Retrieved 26 November 2021.

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