Tiruppur South (state assembly constituency)

Refer Tiruppur (State Assembly Constituency) for previous elections held in this constituency.

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

Year	Winner	Party
2011	K. Thangavel	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2016	S. Gunasekaran	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election Results

2016

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Tiruppur South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	S. Gunasekaran	73,351	44.68	+44.68
	DMK	K. Selvaraj	57,418	34.98	+34.98
	CPI (M)	K. Thangavel	13,597	8.28	-53.35
	BJP	N. Point Mani	7,640	4.65	+1.06
	SDPI	Basheer Ahamed M	2,547	1.55	-0.61
Margin of victory			15,933	9.70	-21.60
Turnout			1,64,339	66.36	-6.56
	AIADMK gain from CPI (M)		Swing	-16.95

2011

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Tiruppur South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI (M)	K. Thangavel	75,424	61.63	+61.63
	INC	K. Senthil Kumar	37,121	30.33	+30.33
	BJP	Point mani N	4,397	3.59	+3.59
	SDPI	Mohmed Amanulla M	2,645	2.16	+2.16
	IND	Maswooth L M	944	0.77	+0.77
Margin of victory			38,303	31.30	----
Turnout			1,22,451	72.92	New
	CPI (M) win (new seat)

References

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