About Cumbum Assembly Constituency

Cumbum is constituency No. 201 of Tamil Nadu legislative assembly. It is located in Theni district. This unreserved constituency is part of the Theni Lok Sabha constituency. Elections to this constituency were not held in 1957 and 1962.

According to data with the Election Commission of India, Cumbum has 2,16,907 registered voters. It comprises 1,07,868 male and 1,09,039 female voters.

The DMK won this seat in the 2011 assembly elections by a margin of 12,168 votes. Eramakrishnan N., the winning candidate, got 80,307 votes. Eramakrishnan won this seat for a third consecutive term. Murugesan P., the runner-up, got 68,139 votes. Murugesan was DMDK's candidate. The voter turnout was 76.37%.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Cumbum Assembly Constituency

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Cumbum assembly elections conducted so far.

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Sex	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2011	201	Cumbum	GEN	Eramakrishnan.N	M	DMK	80307	Murugesan.P	M	DMDK	68139
2009	By Polls	Cumbum	GEN	Ramakrishan N,	M	DMK	81515	Arun Kumar. R.	M	DMDK	24142
2006	134	Cumbum	GEN	Eramakrishnan N	M	MDMK	50761	Selvendran P	M	DMK	48803
2001	134	Cumbum	GEN	Ramachandran O.R	M	TMC(M)	56823	Krishnakumar N.K.R	M	BJP	52437
1996	134	Cumbum	GEN	Ramachandran, O.R.	M	TMC(M)	58628	Gopalan, R.T.	M	IND	22888
1991	134	Cumbum	GEN	O.R. Ramachandaran	M	INC	59263	P. Eramar	M	DMK	35060
1989	134	Cumbum	GEN	Eramakrishnan	M	DMK	52509	Gopalan, R.T.	M	ADK(JL)	37124
1984	134	Cumbum	GEN	S.Subburayar	M	ADK	52228	N.Ramakrishnan	M	DMK	47005
1980	134	Cumbum	GEN	Gopalan, R. T.	M	ADK	47577	Cumbum Mahandiran, A.K.	M	DMK	35395
1977	134	Cumbum	GEN	R. Chandrasekharan	M	ADK	34902	N. Natarajan	M	DMK	34080
1971	129	Cumbum	GEN	Gopal K. P.	M	NCO	34483	Chellathurai P.S.	M	DMK	33806
1967	129	Cumbum	GEN	Rajangam	M	DMK	41440	N.S.K.S. Pandiaraj	M	INC	28025