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Purasawalkam Assembly constituency
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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.
Quick Facts Purasuwalkam, Constituency details ...
Purasuwalkam | |
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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 |
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Members of the Legislative Assembly
Madras State
More information Year, Winner ...
Year | Winner | Party | |
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1962 | Bashyam Reddy | Indian National Congress | |
1967 | V. S. Govindarajan | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | |
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Tamil Nadu
More information Assembly, Duration ...
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Election results
2006
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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% |
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2001
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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% |
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1996
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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% |
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1991
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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% |
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1989
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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% |
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1984
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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% |
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1980
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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% |
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1977
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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% |
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1971
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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% |
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1967
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 |
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