About Ariyalur Assembly Constituency

Ariyalur is constituency No. 149 of Tamil Nadu legislative assembly. It is situated in Ariyalur district and comes under the Chidambaram Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency.

According to data with the Election Commission of India, this constituency has 2,18,992 registered voters. It includes 1,08,925 male and 1,10,067 female registered voters.

The AIADMK won this seat in the 2011 Assembly elections. Manivel Durai, the winning AIADMK candidate, got 88,726 votes. The runner-up was Amaramoorthy D. of Congress who got 70,906 votes. The winning margin was 9.59 % of the total valid votes. The voter turnout was 84.83 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Ariyalur Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Sex	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2011	149	Ariyalur	GEN	Manivel, Durai.	M	AIADMK	88726	Amaramoorthy D	M	INC	70906
2006	162	Ariyalur	GEN	Amaramoorthy.D	M	INC	60089	Ravichandran.M	M	AIADMK	55895
2001	162	Ariyalur	GEN	Elavazhagan. P.	M	ADMK	52676	Kathiravan. T.A.	M	DMK	42297
1996	162	Ariyalur	GEN	Amaramoorthy, D.	M	TMC(M)	62157	Elavarasan, A.	M	ADMK	37263
1991	162	Ariyalur	GEN	Manimegalai S.	F	ADK	64680	Chinnappa K.	M	DMK	41551
1989	162	Ariyalur	GEN	Arumugam T.	M	DMK	47353	Elavazhagan P.	M	ADK(JL)	29242
1984	162	Ariyalur	GEN	S. Purushothaman	M	ADK	56815	T. Arumugam	M	DMK	39045
1980	162	Ariyalur	GEN	Arumugam, T.	M	DMK	45980	Asokan.	M	ADK	36776
1977	162	Ariyalur	GEN	T. Arumugam	M	DMK	31380	Karuppiah Alias Asokan	M	ADK	30125
1971	156	Ariyalur	GEN	G. Sivaperumal	M	DMK	48320	R. Sambasivam Moopanar	M	NCO	22740
1967	156	Ariyalur	GEN	R.Karuppiam	M	INC	26440	G.Sepperumal	M	DMK	25017