Coimbatore East Assembly constituency
| Coimbatore (East) | |
|---|---|
| Former constituency for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | South India |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| District | Coimbatore |
| Established | 1967 |
| Abolished | 2006 |
| Total electors | 1,57,364 |
| Reservation | None |
Coimbatore East was a legislative assembly constituency in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It covers parts of Coimbatore. Coimbatore East assembly constituency is a part of the Coimbatore parliamentary constituency. After 2008 delimitation this constituency became defunct.
Members of the Legislative Assembly[edit]
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | C. Subramaniam | Indian National Congress | |
| 1957 | Marudachalam | Communist Party of India | |
| Palaniswami | Indian National Congress | ||
| 1962 | K. P. Palanisamy | ||
| 1967 | M. Bhupathy | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| Fifth | K. Ranganathan | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | |
| Sixth | K. Ramani | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| Seventh | |||
| Eighth | |||
| Ninth | |||
| Tenth | V. K. Lakshmanan | Indian National Congress | |
| Eleventh | Tamil Maanila Congress | ||
| Twelfth | |||
| Thirteenth | N. Pongalur Palanisamy | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | |
Election results[edit]
2006[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DMK | Pongalur Palanisamy. N. | 51,827 | 47.50% | ||
| AIADMK | Gopalakrishnan. V. | 45,491 | 41.70% | ||
| DMDK | Mary. G. | 7,886 | 7.23% | ||
| BJP | Shanmugam. K. | 2,651 | 2.43% | -43.76% | |
| Independent | Ramamoorthy. P. M. | 424 | 0.39% | ||
| JD(U) | Anbuselvam. S. B. | 415 | 0.38% | ||
| BSP | Subramanian. P. | 205 | 0.19% | ||
| Independent | Sivarajasekaran. P. | 204 | 0.19% | ||
| Margin of victory | 6,336 | 5.81% | 1.93% | ||
| Turnout | 1,09,103 | 69.33% | 17.33% | ||
| Registered electors | 1,57,364 | ||||
| DMK gain from TMC(M) | Swing | -2.57% | |||
2001[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TMC(M) | Lakshmanan V. K. | 41,419 | 50.08% | -18.73% | |
| BJP | Nanjappan N. R. | 38,208 | 46.19% | 42.30% | |
| JD(S) | Balan. K. B. | 1,783 | 2.16% | ||
| Independent | Ravi P | 692 | 0.84% | ||
| Independent | Manickam N | 324 | 0.39% | ||
| Independent | Padmanapan . K. | 285 | 0.34% | ||
| Margin of victory | 3,211 | 3.88% | -49.16% | ||
| Turnout | 82,711 | 52.00% | -8.16% | ||
| Registered electors | 1,59,063 | ||||
| TMC(M) hold | Swing | -18.73% | |||
1996[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TMC(M) | V. K. Lakshmanan | 61,860 | 68.81% | ||
| INC | R. S. Velan | 14,174 | 15.77% | -39.79% | |
| CPI(M) | K. C. Karunakaran | 8,523 | 9.48% | -25.16% | |
| BJP | N. Soundaraj | 3,500 | 3.89% | -2.40% | |
| Independent | K. B. Balan | 332 | 0.37% | ||
| IC(S) | Venugopal | 282 | 0.31% | ||
| ATMK | M. Guruswamy | 248 | 0.28% | ||
| Independent | S. Sounderrajan | 179 | 0.20% | ||
| SHS | C. N. Ravishankar | 126 | 0.14% | ||
| Independent | P. Rajendran | 91 | 0.10% | ||
| Independent | G. Krishnamoorthy | 73 | 0.08% | ||
| Margin of victory | 47,686 | 53.04% | 32.12% | ||
| Turnout | 89,906 | 60.16% | 7.78% | ||
| Registered electors | 1,53,644 | ||||
| TMC(M) gain from INC | Swing | 13.25% | |||
1991[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Lakshmanan V. K. | 46,544 | 55.56% | 24.79% | |
| CPI(M) | Karunakaran K. C. | 29,019 | 34.64% | -4.67% | |
| BJP | Bhupathy G. | 5,275 | 6.30% | ||
| JP | Geetha K. S. | 1,151 | 1.37% | ||
| Tamilar Desiya Iyakkam | Gandhi A. | 185 | 0.22% | ||
| Independent | Rajasekaran C. | 149 | 0.18% | ||
| PMK | Abdul Kareem H. | 130 | 0.16% | ||
| Independent | Balan K. B. | 118 | 0.14% | ||
| Independent | Rajendran G. | 100 | 0.12% | ||
| Independent | Nanjappan C. M. | 99 | 0.12% | ||
| Independent | Anthonyaraj R. | 98 | 0.12% | ||
| Margin of victory | 17,525 | 20.92% | 12.38% | ||
| Turnout | 83,780 | 52.38% | -14.52% | ||
| Registered electors | 1,62,322 | ||||
| INC gain from CPI(M) | Swing | 16.25% | |||
1989[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Ramani. K. | 37,397 | 39.31% | -8.83% | |
| INC | Ramakrishnan. E. | 29,272 | 30.77% | ||
| AIADMK | Malaravan. T. | 14,727 | 15.48% | -31.41% | |
| AIADMK | Manimaran. V.R. | 8,799 | 9.25% | -37.65% | |
| Independent | Gopal. P.N. | 1,751 | 1.84% | ||
| Independent | Balan. K.B. | 1,065 | 1.12% | ||
| Independent | Kalimuthu. R. | 761 | 0.80% | ||
| Independent | Komahan | 313 | 0.33% | ||
| Independent | Kalidass. M.P. | 174 | 0.18% | ||
| Independent | Manitharachalam. K. | 160 | 0.17% | ||
| Independent | Muthuswamy. K. | 154 | 0.16% | ||
| Margin of victory | 8,125 | 8.54% | 7.29% | ||
| Turnout | 95,142 | 66.90% | 2.79% | ||
| Registered electors | 1,44,236 | ||||
| CPI(M) hold | Swing | -8.83% | |||
1984[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Ramani K. | 40,891 | 48.14% | 2.75% | |
| AIADMK | Kovai Thambi | 39,832 | 46.89% | ||
| Independent | Jagadeesan P. V. | 1,485 | 1.75% | ||
| Independent | Mariaselvam Anthonisamy. P. | 543 | 0.64% | ||
| Independent | Rajan C. | 409 | 0.48% | ||
| Independent | Sundareswaran N. | 302 | 0.36% | ||
| Independent | Narayanaswamy. G. P | 292 | 0.34% | ||
| Independent | Chandrasekaran | 249 | 0.29% | ||
| Independent | Ramasamy. M. | 217 | 0.26% | ||
| Independent | Jayachandran A. | 189 | 0.22% | ||
| Independent | Subbian. R. A. | 154 | 0.18% | ||
| Margin of victory | 1,059 | 1.25% | 1.07% | ||
| Turnout | 84,941 | 64.11% | 10.80% | ||
| Registered electors | 1,37,305 | ||||
| CPI(M) hold | Swing | 2.75% | |||
1980[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Ramani. K. | 33,666 | 45.39% | 14.85% | |
| INC | Ganga Nair | 33,533 | 45.21% | 24.84% | |
| JP | Venkatachalam. K. R. | 5,406 | 7.29% | ||
| BJP | Ramani Kumar. G. | 870 | 1.17% | ||
| Independent | Marudachala. V. | 358 | 0.48% | ||
| Independent | Nadai Mannan Parthasarathy. N. | 182 | 0.25% | ||
| Independent | Arunan. K. | 157 | 0.21% | ||
| Margin of victory | 133 | 0.18% | -2.78% | ||
| Turnout | 74,172 | 53.30% | -3.22% | ||
| Registered electors | 1,40,417 | ||||
| CPI(M) hold | Swing | 14.85% | |||
1977[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | K. Ramani | 20,803 | 30.54% | ||
| DMK | K. Aranganathan | 18,784 | 27.58% | -19.14% | |
| JP | K.R. Venkatachalam | 14,049 | 20.63% | ||
| INC | S. Ramaswamy | 13,877 | 20.37% | -21.05% | |
| Independent | K. Palaniswamy | 407 | 0.60% | ||
| Independent | K.K. Vadivelu | 194 | 0.28% | ||
| Margin of victory | 2,019 | 2.96% | -2.33% | ||
| Turnout | 68,114 | 56.52% | -7.95% | ||
| Registered electors | 1,21,664 | ||||
| CPI(M) gain from DMK | Swing | -16.17% | |||
1971[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DMK | K. Rangana Than | 31,003 | 46.71% | ||
| INC | A. Devaraj | 27,491 | 41.42% | -0.72% | |
| CPI(M) | M. Bupathy | 7,873 | 11.86% | ||
| Margin of victory | 3,512 | 5.29% | -3.37% | ||
| Turnout | 66,367 | 64.47% | -8.26% | ||
| Registered electors | 1,09,398 | ||||
| DMK gain from CPI(M) | Swing | -4.09% | |||
1967[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | M. Bhupathy | 33,122 | 50.81% | ||
| INC | G. R. Damodaran | 27,477 | 42.15% | ||
| CPI | R. Rangaswamy | 4,595 | 7.05% | ||
| Margin of victory | 5,645 | 8.66% | |||
| Turnout | 65,194 | 72.73% | |||
| Registered electors | 92,200 | ||||
| CPI(M) gain from INC | Swing | ||||
1962[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | K. P. Palanisamy | 32,313 | 37.38% | 15.15% | |
| CPI | N. Marudachalam | 23,948 | 27.70% | ||
| PSP | V. Nagaraj | 16,362 | 18.93% | ||
| DMK | V. Petchimuthu | 11,628 | 13.45% | ||
| Socialist | V. Arumugam | 1,914 | 2.21% | ||
| Independent | C. T. Subbiah | 280 | 0.32% | ||
| Margin of victory | 8,365 | 9.68% | 8.93% | ||
| Turnout | 86,445 | 81.20% | -10.97% | ||
| Registered electors | 1,09,764 | ||||
| INC gain from CPI | Swing | 14.40% | |||
1957[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI | Marudachalam (Sc) | 38,929 | 22.98% | ||
| INC | Palaniswami (Sc) | 37,662 | 22.23% | ||
| INC | Kuppuswamy | 36,549 | 21.58% | ||
| PSP | P. Veluswami | 33,188 | 19.59% | ||
| Independent | Rajamanickkam | 12,636 | 7.46% | ||
| Independent | Sadayappan | 10,435 | 6.16% | ||
| Margin of victory | 1,267 | 0.75% | |||
| Turnout | 1,69,399 | 92.17% | |||
| Registered electors | 1,83,799 | ||||
| CPI gain from INC | Swing | ||||
1952[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | C. Subramaniam | 21,406 | 43.46% | 43.46% | |
| CPI | C. P. Kandaswami | 16,354 | 33.21% | ||
| Independent | K. Venkataswami Naidu | 8,323 | 16.90% | ||
| Socialist | Kanakasabhapathy | 1,466 | 2.98% | ||
| Independent | P. A. Natesan | 1,169 | 2.37% | ||
| Independent | S. Narasimha Iyer | 533 | 1.08% | ||
| Margin of victory | 5,052 | 10.26% | |||
| Turnout | 49,251 | 65.06% | |||
| Registered electors | 75,701 | ||||
| INC win (new seat) | |||||
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