Tamil Nadu Assembly speaker, P Dhanapal, also won the seat from Tirupur considered the ruling party AIADMK bastion.

AIADMK, which swept all the 10 seats in the last elections, won nine seats from Coimbatore district, leaving one seat, Singanallur, to DMK.

Dhanpal won Avanashi seat in Tirupur District, by a margin of 30,674 votes, defeating his nearest rival E Anandan of DMK, polling 93,366 votes against 62,692 votes.

Similarly, Jayaraman defeated his DMK rival Tamil Mani by 13,453 vote from Pollachi constituency in the district..

State municipal adminstration minsiter, S P Velumani won from his Thondamuthur constituencies by a margin of 64,401 votes, as he polled 1,09,519 as against Manitha Neya Makkal katchi’s Syed Mohammed’s 45,478 votes.

However, AIADMK failed to sweep Coimbatore district, as N Karthik of DMK won the Singanallur seat by a margin of over 5,100 votes, polling 75,459 against his rival AIADMK’s SIngai Muthu’s 70,279

Karthik was the deputy mayor of Coimbatore Corporation.

BJP, which pinned hope to win Coimbatore South and fielded its State Vice President, Vanathi Srinivasan came a poor third, polling over 33,000 votes, where AIADMK candidate, Amman Arjunan won.