Thiruvottiyur Assembly constituency

Thiruvottiyur
Thiruvottiyur
Constituency for the State Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Chennai
LS constituency	Chennai North
Total electors	306,004[1]
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA	K. P. Shankar
Party	DMK
Alliance	SPA
Elected year	2021

Thiruvottiyur is a state assembly constituency in Chennai district in Tamil Nadu.[2] It consists of a portion of Tiruvottiyur taluk. It falls under Chennai North (Lok Sabha constituency).[3] Elections and winners in the constituency are listed below.

Madras State

Year	Winner	Party
1967	A. P. Arasu		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Year	Winner
1971	M. V. Narayanasamy	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1977	P. Sigamony	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1980	Kumari Ananthan	Gandhi Kamaraj National Congress
1982	U Thangasamy	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1984	G. K. J. Baarathi	Indian National Congress
1989	T. K. Palanisamy	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1991	K. Kuppan	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1996	T. C. Vijayan	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2001	T. Arumugam	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2006	K. P. P. Samy	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2011	K. Kuppan	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2016	K. P. P. Samy^[†][4]	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2021	K. P. Shankar	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Vote share of Winning candidates

2021			44.34%
2016			43.25%
2011			57.03%
2006			46.34%
2001			54.94%
1996			64.19%
1991			56.54%
1989			45.58%
1984			54.26%
1980			47.36%
1977			31.29%
1971			53.74%
1967			61.23%

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Thiruvottiyur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	K. P. Shankar	88,185	44.34%	1.09%
	AIADMK	K. Kuppan	50,524	25.40%	-15.29%
	NTK	Seeman (CM Candidate)	48,597	24.43%	22.35%
	MNM	D. Mohan	7,053	3.55%
	AMMK	M. Soundara Pandian	1,417	0.71%
	NOTA	Nota	1,111	0.56%	-0.98%
	Independent	M. A. Michael Raj	603	0.30%
	Independent	N. Ramesh Kumar	585	0.29%
	BSP	M. Kotteswaran	367	0.18%
	SAP	D. Sasiraj	291	0.15%
Margin of victory			37,661	18.94%	16.38%
Turnout			198,885	64.99%	-1.93%
Rejected ballots			81	0.04%
Registered electors			306,004
	DMK hold		Swing	1.09%

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvottiyur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	K. P. P. Samy	82,205	43.25	+2.98
	AIADMK	Balraj B	77,342	40.69	-16.34
	DMDK	Arumugam A V	13,463	7.08
	PMK	Vasanthakumari R	4,025	2.12
	NTK	Gokul R	3,961	2.08
Majority			4,863	2.56
Turnout			1,90,116	66.94
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvottiyur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AIADMK	K. Kuppan	93,944	57.03
	DMK	K. P. P. Samy	66,653	40.47
	BJP	Venkatakrishnan V	1,719	1.04
	IND	Pandiyan, S	649	0.39
Majority			27,291	16.57
Turnout			1,64,823	74.41
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing

2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvottiyur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	K. P. P. Samy	158,095	46.31%
	AIADMK	Moorthy.V	154,748	45.33%
	DMDK	Murugan. S	21,915	6.42%
	BJP	Ganesan.K	2,976	0.87%
	Independent	Bhuvaneswaran.G	1,053	0.31%
	Independent	Shanmugam.T.A	759	0.22%
		Rajendiran. A	0	0.00%
Margin of victory			3,347	0.98%	-15.45%
Turnout			341,402	68.79%	-47.16%
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	-8.63%

2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvottiyur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Arumugam.T	113,808	54.94%
	Thondar Congress	Kumari Anandan	79,767	38.50%
	MDMK	Sekar.S.G.	8,483	4.09%
	Independent	Bullet. J. Selvaraj	2,221	1.07%
	JD(S)	Gunasekaran.S	1,446	0.70%
	SP	Vijayakumar.N.D.	833	0.40%
	Puratchi Bharatham	Nallasivam. S.	609	0.29%
Margin of victory			34,041	16.43%	-25.10%
Turnout			207,161	47.85%	-10.10%
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	-9.25%

1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvottiyur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	T. C. Vijayan	115,939	64.19%
	AIADMK	Balraj. B.	40,917	22.65%
	CPI(M)	Soundararajan. A.	16,329	9.04%
	PMK	Velmurugan. T.	4,559	2.52%
	BJP	Nallasivam. S.	1,511	0.84%
	IC(S)	Mahendramani. D.	378	0.21%
	Independent	Shanmuga Sundaram. R.	179	0.10%
	SHS	Pariyasamy. S.	150	0.08%
Margin of victory			75,022	41.53%	23.54%
Turnout			180,624	57.95%	-1.04%
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	7.65%

1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvottiyur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	K. Kuppan	85,823	56.54%
	DMK	Pallanisamy T.K.	58,501	38.54%
	PMK	Abbu Gounder T.	4,796	3.16%
	BJP	Annamalai R.	1,513	1.00%
	JP	Ganesan V.M.	520	0.34%
	Independent	Raja G.	262	0.17%
	Independent	Mani S.S.	116	0.08%
Margin of victory			27,322	18.00%	3.84%
Turnout			151,797	58.99%	-8.11%
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	10.96%

1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvottiyur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Palanisamy. T.K.M	67,849	45.58%
	AIADMK	Rama Chandran. J.M	46,777	31.42%
	INC	Bharathi. G.K. J.M	19,782	13.29%
	Independent	Bhoominathan. K.V.P.M	10,863	7.30%
	Independent	Thangal. Mathialagan S.M	786	0.53%
	Independent	Veeran. N.M	720	0.48%
	Independent	Thanthoni. E.M	341	0.23%
Margin of victory			21,072	14.16%	4.57%
Turnout			148,866	67.1%	-5.61%
	DMK gain from INC		Swing	-8.69%

1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvottiyur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	G. K. J. Baarathi	65,194	54.26%
	DMK	T. K. Palaniswamy	53,684	44.68%
	Independent	S. S. Mani	379	0.32%
	Independent	A. Bakthavatasalam	279	0.23%
	Independent	G. Muthian	237	0.20%
	Independent	T. Devasagayan	210	0.17%
	Independent	P. John	158	0.13%
Margin of victory			11,510	9.58%	6.20%
Turnout			120,141	72.71%	5.58%
	INC gain from GKC		Swing	6.90%

1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvottiyur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Gandhi Kamaraj Congress	Kumari Ananthan	48,451	47.36%
	INC	Loganathan.T	44,993	43.98%
	JP	Elumalai.T.P	8,604	8.41%
	Independent	Nithianandhan.M	248	0.24%
Margin of victory			3,458	3.38%	0.47%
Turnout			102,296	67.13%	9.36%
	GKC gain from AIADMK		Swing	16.08%

1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Thiruvottiyur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AIADMK	P. Sigamony	26,458	31.29%
	DMK	M.V. Narayanaswamy	23,995	28.37%
	Independent	C.K. Madhavan	16,888	19.97%
	JP	B. Mutuswamy Naidu	16,800	19.87%
	Independent	P. Chinnaswamy	224	0.26%
	Independent	P. John	202	0.24%
Margin of victory			2,463	2.91%
Turnout			84,567	57.77%
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing

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