About Tiruchendur Assembly Constituency

Tiruchendur is constituency No. 215 of Tamil Nadu legislative assembly. This unreserved constituency is situated in Thuthukudi or Tuticorin district. It was earlier part of Tiruchendur Lok Sabha constituency which was dissolved following delimitation in 2008. It is now under Thuthukodi Lok Sabha constituency.

According to the Election Commission of India, this constituency has 1,89,982 registered voters. It includes 92,426 male and 97,556 female registered voters.

In the 2011 assembly elections, the DMK won this constituency by a narrow margin of just 640 votes. The DMK candidate, Anitha R Radhakrishnan, got 68,741 votes. AIADMK's Manoharan Pr. was the runner-up. The voter turnout was 77.00 %.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Tiruchendur Assembly Constituency

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

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Sex	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2011	96	Tiruchendur	GEN	Anitha R Radhakrishnan	M	DMK	68741	Manoharan. Pr	M	AIADMK	68101
2009	By Polls	Tiruchendur	GEN	Anitha R. R.	F	DMK	75223	T. Narayanan	M	AIAMK	28362
2006	225	Tiruchendur	GEN	Anitha R.Radhakrishnan	M	AIADMK	58600	Jeyaseelan.A.D.K	M	DMK	44684
2001	225	Tiruchendur	GEN	Anitha.R. Radhakrishnan.	F	ADMK	52990	Tmt. Jenifer Chandran. S.	F	DMK	41797
1996	225	Tiruchendur	GEN	S. Jennifer Chandran	F	DMK	59206	T. Thamotharan	M	ADMK	28175
1991	225	Tiruchendur	GEN	Chelladurai A.	M	ADK	54442	Pandian A.S.	M	DMK	27794
1989	225	Tiruchendur	GEN	Kandasamy, K.P.	M	DMK	42084	Shunmugasundaram Kasimari, K.	M	INC	24903
1984	225	Tiruchendur	GEN	Subramanai Anthithan Aliassubramanian	M	ADK	45953	K.P. Kandasamy	M	DMK	43565
1980	225	Tiruchendur	GEN	Kesava Athithan, S.	M	ADK	35499	Samsudin Alias Kathiravan	M	DMK	34294
1977	225	Tiruchendur	GEN	R. Amirtharaj	M	ADK	20871	Subramaniya Adityan	M	JNP	19736
1971	224	Tiruchendur	GEN	Edmund	M	DMK	39974	Ganesasundaram	M	NCO	34045
1967	224	Tiruchendur	GEN	E.Fernando	M	DMK	39619	S.Nadar	M	INC	28971