Ariyalur is a legislative assembly, that includes the city,

Ariyalur Ariyalur () is a town and district headquarters of Ariyalur district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu and is rich in limestone, surrounded with seven cement factories and two sugar factories. The town is located at a distance of from th ...

. Its State Assembly Constituency number is 149. Until 2006, Ariyalur assembly constituency was part of

Perambalur Lok Sabha constituency Perambalur is a Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu. Its Tamil Nadu Parliamentary Constituency number is 25 of 39. Assembly segments After 2009,Perambalur Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments Before 2009,Pera ...

. After 2006, it is a part of

Chidambaram Lok Sabha constituency Chidambaram is a Lok Sabha (Parliament of India) constituency in Tamil Nadu. Its Tamil Nadu Parliamentary Constituency number is 27 of 39. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes. It spread on district of Ariyalur and Cuddalore. Assembly segm ...

. It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu, in India.

History

From the 1977 elections, the assembly seat was won by

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; DMK) is a political party based in the state of Tamil Nadu where it is currently the ruling party having a comfortable majority without coalition support and the union territory of Puducherry where it is curre ...

(DMK) three times during the 1977, 1980 and 1989 elections, the

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; AIADMK) is an Indian regional political party with great influence in the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is a Dravidian party founded by the former chief mini ...

(AIADMK) two times during the 2001 and 2011 elections,

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

once during 2006 and

Tamil Maanila Congress The Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) (; TMC(M)) is an Indian regional political party in the state of Tamil Nadu. It is founded by the former Member of Parliament of the Republic of India G. K. Moopanar on 29 March 1996 as a breakaway fac ...

once during the 1996 elections. In 2016

Member of Legislative Assembly A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to a legislative assembly. Most often, the term refers to a subnational assembly such as that of a state, province, or territory of a country. S ...

(MLA) of the constituency was Thamarai S.Rajendran from the AIADMK Party. The current MLA since 2021 is K. Chinnappa from DMK.

Madras State

Tamil Nadu

Election results

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2016

2011

2006

2001

1996

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1989

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1977

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1952

Notes

References

* {{Assembly constituencies of Tamil Nadu Assembly constituencies of Tamil Nadu Ariyalur district