Sholinghur (state assembly constituency)

Sholinghur is a state assembly constituency in Vellore district in Tamil Nadu, India.[1] It consists of portions of the Walajah and Arakkonam taluks. It falls under Arakkonam constituency for national elections to the Parliament of India.[2]

The mostly rural constituency was politically dominated from the 1960s by four brothers, including A. M. Ponnuranga Mudaliar and A. M. Munirathinam Mudaliar, from a staunch Indian National Congress-supporting family. One or other of the brothers either won or was runner-up in eight of the twelve state assembly elections between 1962 and 2011.[3]

Madras State
Year Winner Party
1952 M. Subramanyam CWP
1957 B. Bhaskar Indian National Congress
1962 A. M. Ponnuranga Mudaliar Indian National Congress
1967 Aranganathan Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Tamil Nadu
Year Winner Party
1971 A. M. Ponnuranga Mudaliar NCO
1977 S. J. Ramasamy Mudaliyar All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1980 C. Gopal Mudaliyar All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1984 N. Shanmugam Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1989 A. M. Munirathinam Mudaliar Indian National Congress
1991 A. M. Munirathinam Mudaliar Indian National Congress
1996 A. M. Munirathinam Mudaliar Tamil Maanila Congress
2001 R. Vilvanathan All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2006 D. Arul Anbarasu Indian National Congress
2011 P. R. Manogar Desiya Murpokku Dravidar Kazhagam
2016 N. G. Parthiban Mudaliar- Disqualification by Assembly Speaker 2017[4] All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
By-Election 2019 G. Sampathu All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election Results

By-Election 2019
Bye-election, 2019: Sholingur
Party Candidate Votes % ±
AIADMK G. Sampathu 1,03,545 48.00
DMK A. Asokan 87,489 40.56
AMMK T. G. Mani 12,868 5.97 +5.97
NTK P. Gokulakrishnan 5,188 2.40 +2.40
MNM A. Malayarajan 2,466 1.14 +1.14
NOTA None of the Above 2,112 0.98
Majority
Turnout 2,15,795 82.34
AIADMK hold Swing
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References
  1. "Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Constituency Map". Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  2. "Tamil Nadu - Final Notification & Order" (PDF). Delimitation Commission of India. National Informatics Centre. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  3. Ziegfeld, Adam (2016). Why Regional Parties?. Cambridge University Press. pp. 106–107. ISBN 978-1-10711-868-3.
  4. "2016 Tamil Nadu General Election: Constituency Data Summary" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 39. Retrieved 27 May 2016.

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