Coimbatore (East)
Former constituency for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionSouth India
StateTamil Nadu
DistrictCoimbatore
Established1967
Abolished2006
Total electors1,57,364
ReservationNone

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

Year Name Party
1952 C. Subramaniam Indian National Congress
1957 Marudachalam Communist Party of India
Palaniswami Indian National Congress
1962 K. P. Palanisamy Indian National Congress
1967 M. Bhupathy Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Fifth K. Ranganathan Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Sixth K. Ramani Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Seventh K. Ramani Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Eighth K. Ramani Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Ninth K. Ramani Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Tenth V. K. Lakshmanan Indian National Congress
Eleventh V. K. Lakshmanan Tamil Maanila Congress
Twelfth V. K. Lakshmanan Tamil Maanila Congress
Thirteenth N. Pongalur Palanisamy Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election results

2006

2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Coimbatore (East)[1]
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%
Janata Dal (United) 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

2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Coimbatore (East)[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TMC(M) Lakshmanan V. K. 41,419 50.08% -18.73%
BJP Nanjappan N. R. 38,208 46.19% 42.30%
Janata Dal (Secular) 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

1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Coimbatore (East)[3]
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

1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Coimbatore (East)[4]
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

1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Coimbatore (East)[5]
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

1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Coimbatore (East)[6]
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

1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Coimbatore (East)[7]
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

1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Coimbatore (East)[8]
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

1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Coimbatore (East)[9]
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

1967 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Coimbatore (East)[10]
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

1962 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Coimbatore II[11]
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

1957 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Coimbatore II[12]
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

1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election : Coimbatore[13]
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)

References

  • "Statistical reports of assembly elections". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
  1. ↑ Election Commission of India. "2006 Election Statistical Report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2010. Retrieved 12 May 2006.
  2. ↑ "2001 Tamil Nadu Election Results" (PDF). 12 May 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2010.
  3. ↑ Election Commission of India. "1996 Election Statistical Report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
  4. ↑ Election Commission of India. "1991 Election Statistical Report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
  5. ↑ Election Commission of India. "1989 Election Statistical Report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
  6. ↑ Election Commission of India. "1984 Election Statistical Report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
  7. ↑ Election Commission of India. "1980 Election Statistical Report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
  8. ↑ Election Commission of India. "1977 Election Statistical Report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
  9. ↑ Election Commission of India. "1971 Tamil Nadu Election Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
  10. ↑ "1967 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India" (PDF). 19 April 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 March 2012.
  11. ↑ "1962 Madras State Election Results, Election Commission of India" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
  12. ↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1957 : To the Legislative Assembly of Madras" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  13. ↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 : To the Legislative Assembly of Madras" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
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