Purasawalkam Assembly constituency

Purusawalkam is a defunct legislative assembly constituency, that includes the locality, Purasawalkam of Chennai City and its surroundings. Purasawalkam Assembly constituency was part of Chennai Central Lok Sabha constituency.It was later divided between Egmore and newly created Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar assembly constituencies.

Purasuwalkam
Former constituency for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	South India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Chennai
Lok Sabha constituency	Chennai Central
Established	1962
Abolished	2008
Total electors	167,730 (2006)
Reservation	None

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Madras State

Year	Winner	Party
1962	Bashyam Reddy		Indian National Congress
1967	V. S. Govindarajan		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Tamil Nadu

Assembly	Duration	Winner	Party
1971 Tamil Nadu state assembly election	1971–77	K. Anbazhagan		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1977 Tamil Nadu state assembly election	1977–80
1980 Tamil Nadu state assembly election	1980–84
1984 Tamil Nadu state assembly election	1984–89	K. Nanjil Manoharan
1989 Tamil Nadu state assembly election	1989–91	Arcot N. Veeraswami
1991 Tamil Nadu state assembly election	1991–96	B. Ranganathan		Indian National Congress
1996 Tamil Nadu state assembly election	1996–01			Tamil Maanila Congress
2001 Tamil Nadu state assembly election	2001–06			Indian National Congress
2006 Tamil Nadu state assembly election	2006–2011	V.S. Babu		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election results

2006

2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Babu. V.S.	90,140	53.74%
	AIADMK	Venkateshbabu	82,777	49.35%
	DMDK	Jacquelene Gomez	12,690	7.57%
	BJP	Elumalai. V.	2,019	1.20%
	SWA	Kamalaakannan. J.	769	0.46%
	Independent	Raja. K.	603	0.36%
Margin of victory			7,363	4.39%	1.74%
Turnout			167,730	87.51%	−45.83%
	DMK hold		Swing	5.21%

2001

2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	B. Ranganathan	69,681	48.53%
	TMC(M)	Vetriivel P	65,879	45.89%
	MDMK	Gurunathan S	4,902	3.41%
	JD(S)	Antony Xavier R	1,033	0.72%
	Independent	Venkataramani J	598	0.42%
	Independent	Peter Solomon	389	0.27%
Margin of victory			3,802	2.65%	−49.58%
Turnout			143,574	46.71%	−11.55%
	DMK gain from TMC(M)		Swing	-22.07%

1996

1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TMC(M)	B. Ranganathan	98,157	70.61%
	INC	Gnanam. J. Kathipara	25,543	18.37%
	BJP	Ethirajan. G.	9,128	6.57%
	MDMK	Dhakshina Murthy. K.	2,623	1.89%
	PMK	Nadesan. M.	1,604	1.15%
	Independent	Gnana Sekar. A.	657	0.47%
Margin of victory			72,614	52.23%	34.39%
Turnout			139,022	58.26%	2.18%
	TMC(M) gain from INC		Swing	14.83%

1991

1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	B. Ranganathan	71,391	39.68%
	DMK	Arcot N. Veeraswami	48,559	26.99%
	PMK	Manivannan R.	3,656	20.32%
	BJP	Selvaraj B.	3,120	17.34%
	JP	Sagunthala B.	243	1.35%
	Independent	Elango S.	206	1.14%
Margin of victory			22,832	17.84%	−9.97%
Turnout			127,992	56.08%	−12.16%
	INC gain from DMK		Swing	5.90%

1989

1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Arcot N. Veeraswami	68,640	49.88%
	AIADMK	B. Ranganathan	30,376	22.07%
	Independent	Anbarasu. C.	29,962	21.77%
	BJP	Purasai Kumaran	5,169	3.76%
	Independent	Meiyappan. R.	1,130	0.82%
	Independent	Mahendran. K.	319	0.23%
Margin of victory			38,264	27.81%	24.04%
Turnout			137,613	68.24%	1.73%
	DMK hold		Swing	-1.26%

1984

1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Nanjil K. Manoharan	61,246	51.14%
	AIADMK	Suppu. K.	56,736	47.37%
	Independent	Dhanapal R. H.	482	0.40%
	Independent	Manivannan. D.	206	0.17%
	Independent	Selyamary. S.	200	0.17%
	Independent	Munirathinam. E.	196	0.16%
Margin of victory			4,510	3.77%	−1.90%
Turnout			119,763	66.51%	6.74%
	DMK hold		Swing	-1.21%

1980

1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	K. Anbazhagan	52,729	52.35%
	AIADMK	Valampuri John	47,021	46.68%
	JP	Manivannan.D	535	0.53%
	Independent	Mani.D	439	0.44%
Margin of victory			5,708	5.67%	−15.27%
Turnout			100,724	59.77%	14.50%
	DMK hold		Swing	7.26%

1977

1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	K. Anbazhagan	41,073	45.09%
	JP	T. S. Govindaswamy	22,004	24.16%
	ADK	P.A. Venkateshwaralu	19,745	21.68%
	CPI	R. Dakshinamoorthy	7,206	7.91%
	Independent	H. Stanley	265	0.29%
	Independent	Rajesekharan	248	0.27%
Margin of victory			19,069	20.94%	6.46%
Turnout			91,085	45.27%	−18.47%
	DMK hold		Swing	-11.03%

1971

1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	K. Anbazhagan	47,182	56.13%
	INC	Bashyam Reddy	35,016	41.65%
	Independent	M Deenan	1,865	2.22%
Margin of victory			12,166	14.47%	7.18%
Turnout			84,063	63.74%	−10.63%
	DMK hold		Swing	-1.91%

1967

1967 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	V. S. Govindarajan	41,272	58.04%
	INC	Damodaran	29,046	40.85%
	ABJS	Krishniah	792	1.11%
Margin of victory			12,226	7.29%
Turnout			71,110	74.37%
	DMK gain from		Swing