Madurai East (state assembly constituency)

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Madurai East is a legislative assembly constituency in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Elections and Winners from this constituency are listed below. Madurai East will be one of 17 assembly constituencies to have VVPAT facility with EVMs in 2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election.^[1]^[2]

Madras State[]

Year	Assembly	Winner		Tenure
1957	2nd		Indian National Congress	1957 - 1962
1962	3rd		Indian National Congress	1962 - 1967
1967	4th	K. P. Janakiammal	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1967 - 1971

Tamil Nadu[]

Year	Assembly	Winner		Tenure
1971	5th		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1971 - 1977
1977	6th	N. Sankariah	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1977 - 1980
1980	7th	N. Sankariah	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1980 - 1984
1984	8th	K. Kalimuthu	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1984 - 1989
1989	9th	S. R. Eradha (Leader of the Opposition)	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1989 - 1991
1991	10th		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1991 - 1996
1996	11th	V. Velusamy	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1996 - 2001
2001	12th	N. Nanmaran	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2001 - 2006
2006	13th	N. Nanmaran	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2006 - 2011
2011	14th	K. Tamilarasan	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	2011 - 2016
2016	15th	P. Moorthy	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	2016 - 2021
2021	16th	P. Moorthy	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Incumbent

Election Results[]

2021[]

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Madurai East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DMK	P. Moorthy	1,22,729	51.59
	AIADMK	Gopalakrishnan P	73,125	30.74
	NTK	Latha J	17,668	7.43
	MNM	Muthukrishnan I	11,993	5.04
Majority
Turnout			2,37,892
	DMK hold		Swing

References[]

^ "EC to tighten grip on cash for votes".
^ "20,000 personnel to be deployed for election work". The Hindu. 5 March 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2018.

"Statistical reports of assembly elections". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2010.

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^ "Archived copy". www.electiontrends.in. Archived from the original on 23 December 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[1] "EC to tighten grip on cash for votes".

[2] "20,000 personnel to be deployed for election work". The Hindu. 5 March 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2018.

[3] "Archived copy". www.electiontrends.in. Archived from the original on 23 December 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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