Tamil Nadu Assembly election 2021, Tiruppur South profile: AIADMK's S Gunasekaran won constituency in 2016

Tiruppur South is an Assembly/Vidhan Sabha constituency in the Tiruppur district of Tamil Nadu. It falls under the Tiruppur Lok Sabha constituency.

In the 2016 Tamil Nadu Assembly election, the Tiruppur South constituency had a total of 2,47,665 registered voters.

Voter turnout in previous election

The voter turnout in Tiruppur South in the previous Assembly election was 66.29 percent.

Past election results and winners

In the 2016 Tamil Nadu Assembly election, S Gunasekaran of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) won the Tiruppur South seat. He won 73,351 votes, as against 57,418 votes won by his main rival K Selvaraj of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).

In the 2011 election, K Thangavel of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) had won the Tiruppur South seat by defeating K Senthil Kumar of the Indian National Congress (INC).

Election date and timing

The Tamil Nadu Assembly polls will be held on 6 April 2021, along with Kerala and Puducherry. The day will also see phase three polls in Assam and West Bengal. 92,000 polling booths will be there for the assembly polls. The counting of the votes is scheduled for 2 May.

The official notification of the Assembly polls in the state is scheduled for 12 March. The nomination of candidates will be accepted from then till 19 March. The scrutiny of nominations will be done on 20 March and the last date for withdrawal of candidature is 22 March.

The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly has a total number of 234 seats, of which 45 are reserved constituencies (42 SC constituencies and 3 ST Constituencies). The current term of the Assembly ends on 24 May 2021.