Pollachi Lok Sabha constituency

Pollachi is a Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu. Its Tamil Nadu Parliamentary Constituency number is 21 of 39.

Pollachi
Lok Sabha Constituency
Pollachi constituency, post-2008 delimitation
Constituency Details
CountryIndia
RegionSouth India
StateTamil Nadu
Assembly ConstituenciesThondamuthur
Kinathukadavu
Pollachi
Valparai
Udumalaipettai
Madathukulam
Established1952
Total electors15,20,276[1]
ReservationNone
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
K. Shanmuga Sundaram
PartyDMK
Elected year2019 Election

Assembly segments

2009-present

Pollachi Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:[2]

Constituency number Name Reserved for (SC/ST/None) District Party
119. Thondamuthur None Coimbatore AIADMK
122. Kinathukadavu None Coimbatore AIADMK
123. Pollachi None Coimbatore AIADMK
124. Valparai SC Coimbatore AIADMK
125. Udumalaipettai None Tiruppur AIADMK
126. Madathukulam None Tiruppur AIADMK

Before 2009
  1. Kinathukkadavu
  2. Pollachi
  3. Valparai (SC)
  4. Udumalpet
  5. Pongalur
  6. Dharapuram (moved to Erode constituency after 2009)

Members of the Parliament
Year Winner Party Runner-up Party
1951 G. R. Damodaran INC Krisnabai Nimbkar Vasudev SP
1957 P.R. Ramakrishnan INC Gurusami Aicker PSP
1962 Chidambaram Subramaniam INC R. M. Ramasamy SWA
1967 Narayanan DMK SK Paramasivam INC
1971 Narayanan DMK Nallasivam SSP
1971 (by-election) M. Kalingarayar DMK RK Gounder Independent
1977 K.A. Raju AIDMK C.T. Dhandapani DMK
1980 C.T. Dhandapani DMK Natarajan M.A.M AIDMK
1984 R. Anna Nambi AIDMK K. Krishnasamy DMK
1989 B. Raja Ravi Varma AIDMK M. Arumugham CPI
1991 B. Raja Ravi Varma AIDMK C.T. Dhandapani DMK
1996 V. Kandasamy TMC(M) R. Anna Nambi AIADMK
1998 M. Thiyagarajan AIADMK N. Kovaithangam TMC(M)
1999 C. Krishnan MDMK M. Thiyagarajan AIADMK
2004 C. Krishnan MDMK G. Murugan AIADMK
2009 K. Sugumar AIADMK K. Shamugasundaram DMK
2014 C. Mahendran AIADMK E. R. Eswaran KMDK
2019 K. Shamugasundaram[3] DMK C. Mahendran AIADMK

Election results

General Election 2019
2019 Indian general elections: Pollachi
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DMK K. Shanmuga Sundaram 5,54,230 51.20
AIADMK C. Mahendran 3,78,347 34.97
MNM R. Mookambikai 59,693 5.52 +5.52
AMMK S. Muthukumar 26,663 2.46 +2.46
NTK A. Sanujha 31,483 2.91
NOTA None of the Above 15,110 1.40 N/A
Majority 1,75,883 16.26
Turnout 10,81,875 71.15 -2.16
DMK gain from AIADMK Swing

General Election 2014
2014 Indian general elections: Pollachi[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AIADMK C. Mahendran 4,17,092 41.19
KMDK E. R. Eswaran 2,76,118 27.27
DMK Pongalur N. Palanisamy 2,51,829 24.87
INC K. Selvaraj 30,014 2.96
NOTA None of the Above 12,947 1.28
Majority 1,40,974 13.92
Turnout 10,12,752 73.31 -2.49
AIADMK hold Swing

General Election 2009
2009 Indian general elections: Pollachi
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AIADMK K. Sugumar 3,05,935 39.66
DMK K. Shanmuga Sundaram 2,59,910 33.69
KNMK S. Ramasamy 1,03,004 13.35
DMDK Thangavel K P 38,824 5.03
BJP Baba Ramesh V S 16,815 2.18
Majority 46,025 5.96
Turnout 7,71,479 75.80 +13.92
AIADMK gain from MDMK Swing

General Election 2004
2004 Indian general elections: Pollachi
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
MDMK Dr. C. Krishnan 3,64,988 56.76 +8.98
AIADMK Murugan. G 2,44,067 37.95 -8.28
Independent Rajkumar. R 13,039 2.03 +0.90
Independent Ganesan. K M 6,503 1.01 -0.11
Majority 1,20,921 18.80 +17.25
Turnout 6,43,073 61.88 +4.79
MDMK hold Swing +8.98

See also

References
  1. GE 2009 Statistical Report: Constituency Wise Detailed Result
  2. "List of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Tamil Nadu. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 10 October 2008.
  3. "General elections to the 17th Lok Sabha, 2019 - List of members elected" (PDF). New Delhi: Election Commission of India. 25 May 2019. p. 26. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  4. "Results 2014". ECI. Retrieved 22 May 2014.

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