About Alangulam Assembly Constituency

Alangulam is constituency No. 223 of Tamil Nadu legislative assembly. It is situated in Tirunelveli district and comes under the Tirunelveli Lok sabha constituency. It is an unreserved constituency.

According to data with the Election Commission of India, Alangulam has 2,03,826 registered voters. It comprises 1,00,445 male and 1,03,381 female registered voters.

In the 2011 Assembly elections, the AIADMK won this seat by a margin of just 299 votes. The winning AIADMK candidate, P. G. Rajendran, secured 78,098 votes. His nearest contender was Poongothai Aladi Aruna of DMK who got 77,799 votes. The voter turnout was 81.04 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Alangulam Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Sex	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2011	223	Alangulam	GEN	P. G. Rajendran	M	AIADMK	78098	Dr.Poongothai Aladi Aruna	M	DMK	77799
2006	217	Alangulam	GEN	Poongothai Aladiaruna	F	DMK	62299	Pandiaraj.M	M	AIADMK	55454
2001	217	Alangulam	GEN	Rajendran .P.G.	M	ADMK	58498	Aladi Aruna	M	DMK	54387
1996	217	Alangulam	GEN	Aladi Aruna	M	DMK	53374	Kamaraj, M.S.	M	INC	29038
1991	217	Alangulam	GEN	Ramasubbu S.S.	M	INC	66637	Gurunathan S.	M	DMK	35487
1989	217	Alangulam	GEN	Ramasubbbu S.S.	M	INC	31314	Murugiah M.P.	M	DMK	30832
1984	217	Alangulam	GEN	Shanmuchiah Pendian N.	M	ADK	48109	Thambi Thurai, P.	M	DMK	27076
1980	217	Alangulam	GEN	Navaneetha Krishna Pandian, R.	M	GKC	41271	Dorai Singh, E.	M	DMK	34587
1977	217	Alangulam	GEN	V. Karuppasamypandian	M	ADK	20183	R. Navaneethakrishnapandian	M	JNP	18342
1971	216	Alangulam	GEN	Arunachalam V.	M	DMK	36526	Ramachandran S. K. T.	M	NCO	34688
1967	216	Alangulam	GEN	V.Arunachalam	M	DMK	33509	A.B.Balagan	M	INC	30938