Mettur Assembly constituency explained

Mettur is a state legislative assembly constituency in Salem district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.^[2] Its State Assembly Constituency number is 85. It comprises a portion of Mettur taluk and is a part of the wider Dharmapuri constituency for national elections to the Parliament of India.^[3] It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu, in India. Elections and winners in the constituency are listed below.

Madras State

Year	Winner
1971	M. Surendran
1977	K. P. Nachimuthu Gounder
1980	K. P. Nachimuthu
1984	K. P. Nachimuthu
1989	M. Sreerangan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991	S. Sundarambal
1996	P. Gopal
2001	S. Sundarambal
2006	G. K. Mani
2011	S. R. Parthiban
2016	S. Semmalai^[4]
2021	S. Sadhasivam

Web site: Statistical reports of assembly elections . 8 July 2010 . Election Commission of India . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101005110118/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/ElectionStatistics.asp . 5 October 2010 .

Web site: Form 21E (Return of Election) . https://web.archive.org/web/20211223080918/https://www.elections.tn.gov.in/Form21E_TNLA2021/AC085.pdf . 28 Jan 2022 . 23 December 2021.
Web site: Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Constituency Map . Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly . 25 January 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120614070155/http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/const_map/map.htm . 14 June 2012 .
Web site: Tamil Nadu - Final Notification & Order . Delimitation Commission of India . National Informatics Centre . 27 January 2017.
Web site: Election Commission of India . 2016 Tamil Nadu General Election: Constituency Data Summary . 27 May 2016. 85.