Erode West (State Assembly Constituency)

Erode West is a State Assembly Constituency of Erode City in Erode District in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

It is included in Erode Parliamentary Constituency.

This is newly formed by separating, in the year of 2008, the integrated Erode State Assembly Constituency.

It covers the western part of Erode City Corporation to the Perundurai constituency limit on the west and Modakurichi Constituency limit on the south; a part of the city is also covered by these two constituencies.

Also Bhavani constituency covers some part of the city in the North. Erode West will be one of 17 assembly constituencies to have VVPAT facility with EVMs in Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, 2016.[1]

Elected members from this constituency are as follows,

Year Winner Party
1996 N. K. K. Periasamy Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2001 K. S. Thennarasu Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2006 N. K. K. P. Raajah Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2011 K. V. Ramalingam Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

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