Ramanathapuram is an Assembly constituency in the Ramanathapuram district, in the South region of Tamil Nadu.

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

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In the 2016 Assembly elections, Ramanathapuram was won by M Manikandan of AIADMK.

Before that, in the 2011 elections, the seat was held by Jawahirullah of MAMAK.

In the 2016 assembly polls, M Manikandan garnered 89,365 votes, securing over 46.3 percent of the vote share, and winning the seat by a margin of 33,222 votes.

In percentage terms, the victory margin was 17.21 percent.

The constituency polled 1,93,087 votes in the 2016 Tamil Nadu assembly polls with a voter turnout of 67.89 percent.

The Ramanathapuram constituency has a literacy level of 81.48 percent.

A total of 18 candidates stood in the 2016 elections.