Kunnam (state assembly constituency)

Kunnam is a state assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu, India newly formed after constituency delimitations 2008.[1] It is included in the Chidambaram parliamentary constituency.

Year	Winner	Party
2011	S. S. Sivasankar	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2016	R. T. Ramachandran	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election Results

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Kunnam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	R. T. Ramachandran	78,218	38.15
	DMK	Durairaj T	59,422	28.98
	PMK	Vaithilingam G	37,271	18.18
	VCK	Mohamed Shanavas J	19.853	9.68
	NOTA	None of the above	3,024	1.47
Margin of victory			18,796	9.17
Turnout			2,05,052	80.15
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Kunnam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	S. S. Sivasankar	81,723	46.89
	DMDK	Durai Kamaraj	58,766	33.72
	IJK	Jayaseelan P	13,735	7.889
	IND	Ponnivalavan P	8,395	4.82
	BJP	Baskaran T	2,509	1.44
Margin of victory			22,957	13.17
Turnout			1,74,429	81.97
	DMK win (new seat)

References

1. "New Constituencies, Post-Delimitation 2008" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2012.