About Pudukkottai Assembly Constituency

Pudukkottai is constituency No. 180 of Tamil Nadu legislative assembly. This unreserved constituency is located in Pudukkottai district. It comes under Tiruchirappalli Lok Sabha constituency.

According to the Election Commission of India, this constituency has a total of 1,77,413 registered voters. It has 88,686 male and 88,722 female voters.

This seat was won by the CPI in 2011 assembly elections. Muthukumaran P., the winning candidate, defeated his nearest rival by a narrow margin of 3,101 votes. Muthukumaran secured 65,466 votes. The runner-up was Periyannan Arassu of DMK. The voter turnout was 79.05 %. Interestingly, the CPI lost this seat to ADMK in the 2014 by-election which was held following Muthukumaran's demise.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Pudukkottai Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Sex	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2011	180	Pudukkottai	GEN	Muthukumaran.P	M	CPI	65466	Periyannan Arassu	M	DMK	62365
2006	191	Pudukkottai	GEN	Nedunchezhian, R	M	AIADMK	64319	Jaffarali, M.	M	DMK	62369
2001	191	Pudukkottai	GEN	Dr. Vijayabasker.C	M	ADMK	77627	Periyannan Arasu	M	DMK	49444
1997	By Polls	Pudukkottai	GEN	Mari Ayya P.	M	DMK	57769	Chelladhurai S.	M	ADMK	45745
1996	191	Pudukkottai	GEN	Periannan A.	M	DMK	79205	Swaminathan S.C.	M	INC	36422
1991	191	Pudukkottai	GEN	Swaminathan C.	M	INC	82205	Mani V. N.	M	DMK	38806
1989	191	Pudukkottai	GEN	Periyannan A.	M	DMK	45534	Erama Veerappan	M	ADK(JR)	26254
1984	191	Pudukkottai	GEN	J.Mohamed Gani	M	INC	63877	K.R. Subbiah	M	CPI	26214
1980	191	Pudukkottai	GEN	Rajkumar Vijaya Regunathathondaiman	M	INC(I)	47660	Subbiah, K. R.	M	CPI	46387
1977	191	Pudukkottai	GEN	R. Rajkumar Vijaya Raghunathatondaman	M	INC	36406	C. Anbarasan	M	ADK	19352
1971	168	Pudukkottai	GEN	Sathiamoorthy M.	M	NCO	34680	Subbaiah Kr	M	CPI	33393
1967	168	Pudukkottai	GEN	R.V.Thondaiman	M	INC	45342	Thiagarajan	M	DMK	25255