Sulur Assembly constituency

Sulur (Template:Lang-ta) is a legislative assembly constituency in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It comprises the Town Panchayat of Irugur, Kannampalayam, Karumathampatti, Mopperipalayam, Pallapalayam, Samalapuram, Sulur and Village Panchayat of Sulur Block and Sultanpet Block surrounding areas in Coimbatore. It was formed in 2009 and is part of the Coimbatore parliamentary constituency.

Members

Assembly	Duration	Winner	Party
Fourteenth	2011-2016	K. Thinakaran	Desiya Murpokku Dravidar Kazhagam
Fifteenth	2016-2019	R. Kanagaraj	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
By-Election 2019	2019 – present	V.P Kandhasamy	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election Results

Bypoll 2019

Bye-election, 2019: Sulur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	V. P. Kandhasamy	1,00,782	44.78
	DMK	Pongalur N. Palanisamy	90,669	40.29
	AMMK	K.Sugumar	16,530	7.35
	MNM	S. Mohanraj	6,644	2.95
	NTK	V. Vijaya Ragavan	4,335	1.93
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,938	0.86
Majority			10,113	4.49
Turnout			2,26,998	76.89
	AIADMK hold		Swing

2016

2016 Tamil Nadu legislative assembly election: Sulur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Kanagaraj R	1,00,977	47.38
	INC	Manoharan V M C	64,346	30.19
	BJP	Mandharasalam S D	13,517	6.34
	DMDK	Thinakaran K	13,106	6.15
	KMDK	Premier Selvam @ Kalichamy M	9,672	4.54
Majority			36,631	17.19
Turnout			2,13,133	75.61
	AIADMK gain from DMDK		Swing

2011

2011 Tamil Nadu legislative assembly election: Sulur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMDK	Thinakaran K	88,680	52.29
	KNMK	Eswaran E R	59,148	34.88
	IND	Dhinakaran K	7,285	4.30
	BJP	Senthilkumar K	4,353	2.57
	IND	Karthikeyan Pon	3,053	1.80
Majority			29,532	17.41
Turnout			1,69,639	80.18
	DMDK win (new seat)

External links

• "Statistical reports of assembly elections". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2010.