About Coimbatore (South) Assembly Constituency

Coimbatore (South) is constituency No. 120 of Tamil Nadu legislative assembly. It is in Coimbatore district and it comes under the parliamentary constituency that goes by the same name.

According to data with the Election Commission of India, Coimbatore (South) has 2,00,261 registered voters. It has 1,00,794 male and 99,467 female voters.

In the 2011 assembly elections, the AIADMK won this seat for the third consecutive term by a formidable margin of 27,796 votes. The winning candidate, Doraiswamy R., got 80,637 votes. His main contender, Pongalur Palanisamy N. of DMK, got 52,841 votes. The voter turnout was 71.59 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Coimbatore South Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Sex	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2011	120	Coimbatore South	GEN	Doraiswamy R Alias Challenger Dorai	M	AIADMK	80637	Pongalur Palanisamy N	M	DMK	52841