Virugambakkam (state assembly constituency)

Virugambakkam is a legislative assembly constituency in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It comprises a part of Chennai and falls under Chennai South Lok Sabha constituency for national elections to the Parliament of India.[1] The constituency was created following delimitation of constituencies in 2007.

Year Winner Party
2011 B. Parthasarathy Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam
2016 V. N. Virugai Ravi[2] All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election Results

2016

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Virugambakkam
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AIADMK V. N. Virugai Ravi 65,979 38.51
DMK K Thanasekaran 63,646 37.15
BJP Tamiliasi Soundrarajan Dr 19,167 11.19
DMDK B Parthasarathy 9,730 5.68
PMK C. H. Jayarao 3,945 2.30
Margin of victory 2,333 1.36 -8.43
Turnout 1,71,339 58.63
AIADMK gain from DMDK Swing

2011

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Virugampakkam
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DMDK B. Partha Sarathy 71,524 49.65 +49.65
DMK Thana sekaran K 57,430 39.86 +39.86
BJP P. Sritharan 7,525 5.22 +5.22
Independent S. Nagavel 3,431 2.38 +2.38
PB A. Baskar 1,447 1.00 +1.00
Margin of victory 14,094 9.79 ----
Turnout 1,44,204 67.10 New
DMDK win (new seat)

References

  1. "Tamil Nadu - Final Notification & Order" (PDF). Delimitation Commission of India. National Informatics Centre. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 August 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  2. "2016 Tamil Nadu General Election: Constituency Data Summary" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 22. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
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