Chennai: The Arani Lok Sabha constituency was created during the 2008 delimitation from Vandavasi constituency.
Indian National Congress’ M Krishnasamy won the first election in the constituency in 2009.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Elumalai of AIADMK won from the Arani seat by defeating DMK’s R Sivanandam. Elumalai had won the seat by 502,721 votes while Sivanandam managed to garner 258,877 votes.
Elumalai has been once again fielded by the AIADMK this time. On behalf of the DMK alliance, INC’s M K Vishnu Prasad, MNM’s V Shaji and AMMK’s Senthamizhan are also contesting from the constituency.
Arni Lok Sabha constituency is composed of Polur, Aarni, Cheyyar, Vandavasi, Gingee and Mailam Assembly segments. There are 1,097,000 electors in the constituency.