Kangayam is an Assembly constituency in the Tiruppur district, in the West region of Tamil Nadu.

The Kangayam constituency went to polls on April 6, 2021.

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In the 2016 Assembly elections, Kangayam was won by U Thaniyarasu of AIADMK.

Before that, in the 2011 elections, the seat was held by NSN Nataraj of AIADMK.

In the 2016 assembly polls, U Thaniyarasu garnered 83,325 votes, securing over 45.18 percent of the vote share, and winning the seat by a margin of 13,135 votes.

In percentage terms, the victory margin was 7.12 percent.

The constituency polled 1,84,514 votes in the 2016 Tamil Nadu assembly polls with a voter turnout of 78.92 percent.

The Kangayam constituency has a literacy level of 79.1 percent.

A total of 16 candidates stood in the 2016 elections.