Virugampakkam (state assembly constituency)

Virugampakkam 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 Virugai V. N. Ravi[2] All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2021 AMV Prabakara Raja Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election Results

2021

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Virugampakkam
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DMK A. M. V. Prabhakara Raja 74,351 43.97
AIADMK Virugai V. N. Ravi 55,984 33.11
MNM Senegan 16,939 10.02
NTK T. S. Rajendran 10,185 6.02
IND Star M. Gunasekaran 5,186 3.07
Margin of victory 18,367 10.95
Turnout 1,69,274 58.03
DMK gain from AIADMK Swing

2016

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Virugampakkam
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AIADMK Virugai V. N. 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. Parthasarathy 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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