About Dharmapuri Assembly Constituency

Dharmapuri is constituency No. 59 of Tamil Nadu assembly constituency. It is situated in the district that goes by the same name. Dharmapuri was the first constituency to emerge in Tamil Nadu after India's independence. It is an open constituency.

According to the Election Commission of India, Dharmapuri has a total of 2,15,940 registered voters. It includes 1,10,117 male and 1,05,816 female voters.

In the 2011 assembly elections, the Dharmapuri seat was won by DMDK party. Baskar A, the winning candidate, got 76,943 votes. His main contender, Santhamoorthy P. of PMK, got 72,900. The voter turnout was 77.92 %. It was an important maiden victory for the recently formed DMDK party.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Dharmapuri Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Sex	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2011	59	Dharmapuri	GEN	Baskar A	M	DMDK	76943	Santhamoorthy P	M	PMK	72900
2006	82	Dharmapuri	GEN	Velusamy. L	M	PMK	76195	Sampath V.S	M	MDMK	45988
2001	82	Dharmapuri	GEN	Pary Mohan .K	M	PMK	56147	Manoharan.K	M	DMK	45173
1996	82	Dharmapuri	GEN	Manokaran, K.	M	DMK	63973	Mase Harur	M	INC	26951
1991	82	Dharmapuri	GEN	Ponnusamy P.	M	INC	53910	Chinnasamy R.	M	DMK	27017
1989	82	Dharmapuri	GEN	Chinnasamy, R.	M	DMK	32794	Ponnuswamy, P.	M	INC	20243
1984	82	Dharmapuri	GEN	Chinnasamy R.	M	DMK	46383	Aranganathan S.	M	ADK	37929
1980	82	Dharmapuri	GEN	Aranganathan, S.	M	ADK	33977	Vadivel, D.N.	M	INC(I)	32472
1977	82	Dharmapuri	GEN	P.K.C. Muthuswamy	M	JNP	26742	D.S. Shanmugam	M	ADK	21556
1971	77	Dharmapuri	GEN	R. Chinnasamy	M	DMK	39861	D. N. Adivel	M	NCO	27834
1967	77	Dharmapuri	GEN	M. S. Gounter	M	DMK	36258	D. N. Vadivel	M	INC	29567