Nilakottai Assembly constituency

Nilakottai is a state assembly constituency in Dindigul district in Tamil Nadu. It is a Scheduled Caste reserved constituency. Elections and Winners from this constituency are listed below.

Madras State

Year	Winner	Party
1952	Ayyanar and Muthu Thevar	Indian National Congress
1957	W. P. A. R. Chandrasekaran and A. S. Ponnammal	Indian National Congress
1962	Abdul Aziz	Indian National Congress
1967	A. Muniyandi	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Tamil Nadu

Year	Winner	Party
1971	A. Muniyandi	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1977	A. Baluchamy	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1980	A. S. Ponnammal	Independent
1984	A. Baluchamy	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1989	A. S. Ponnammal	Indian National Congress
1991	A. S. Ponnammal	Indian National Congress
1996	A. S. Ponnammal	Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar)
2001	G. Anbazhagan	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2006	S. Thenmozhi	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2011	A. Ramasamy	Puthiya Tamilagam
2016	R. Thangathurai - Disqualification by Assembly Speaker 2017	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
By-Election 2019	S. Thenmozhi	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election Results

By-Election 2019

Bye-elections, 2019: Nilakottai

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	S. Thenmozhi	90,982
	DMK	C. Soundarapandian	70,307
	AMMK	R. Thangathurai	9,401
	NTK	A. Sanigilipandian	4,934
	MNM	C. Chinnadurai	3,139
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,339
Majority			20,675
Turnout			1,84,374	80.29
	AIADMK hold		Swing

References

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