Villivakkam (state assembly constituency)

Villivakkam
Villivakkam
Constituency for the State Assembly
Constituency details
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Chennai
LS constituency	Chennai Central
Total electors	255,278
Most successful party	DMK (5 times)
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA	A. Vetriazhagan
Party	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Elected year	2021

13°06′36″N 80°12′34″E / 13.1101°N 80.2095°E

Villivakkam is a legislative assembly constituency in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It consists of a portion of Chennai and falls under Chennai Central (Lok Sabha constituency).^[2]

Year	Winner
1977	K. Suppu	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1980	J. C. D. Prabhakar	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1984		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1989	W. R. Varadarajan	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991		Indian National Congress
1996	J. M. Aaroon Rashid	Tamil Maanila Congress
2001	D. Napoleon	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2006	B. Ranganathan	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2011	J. C. D. Prabhakar	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2016	B. Ranganathan^[3]	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2021	A. Vetriazhagan	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election Results[]

Vote share of Winning candidates

2021			53.37%
2016			43.96%
2011			52.44%
2006			45.63%
2001			48.21%
1996			70.24%
1991			55.49%
1989			46.77%
1984			48.21%
1980			47.84%
1977			41.07%

2021[]

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Villivakkam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	A. Vetriazhagan	76,127	53.37%	9.41%
	AIADMK	J. C. D. Prabhakar	38,890	27.26%	-10.48%
	MNM	Sriharan	13,364	9.37%
	NTK	R. Sridar	10,914	7.65%	5.65%
	NOTA	Nota	1,444	1.01%	-1.26%
	DMDK	D. Subamangalam	1,094	0.77%	-4.72%
	Independent	Syed Rayhan	409	0.29%
		Jagadesh Jayakumar	261	0.18%
	BSP	A. Palanivel	222	0.16%	-0.09%
	Independent	M. Gunasekaran	206	0.14%
	Independent	S. Chandrika	194	0.14%
Margin of victory			37,237	26.10%	19.89%
Turnout			142,648	55.88%	-4.00%
Rejected ballots			881	0.62%
Registered electors			255,278
	DMK hold		Swing	9.41%

2016[]

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Villivakkam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DMK	B. Ranganathan	65,972	43.96
	AIADMK	Thadi M Raju	56,651	37.75
	DMDK	T Pandiyan	8,234	5.49
	BJP	M Jaishankar	6,438	4.29
	PMK	G V Subramaniyan	4,193	2.79
Majority			9,321	6.21
Turnout			1,50,116	59.89
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing

2011[]

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Villivakkam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AIADMK	J. C. D. Prabhakar	68,612	52.44
	DMK	K. Anbazhagan	57,830	44.20
	BJP	Masana Muthu D	1,850	1.41
	Makkal Manadu	Satishkumar K P	589	0.45
Majority			10,782	8.24
Turnout			1,30,834	67.71
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing

2006[]

2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Villivakkam
Party		Candidate	Votes
	DMK	B. Ranganathan	2,78,850
	INTUC	Kalan. G	2,48,734
	DMDK	Velmurugan. G	51,892
	BJP	Ravisundaram.S	9,202
	LKPT	Prema. K	6,473
	Independent	Thyagarajan.J	2,610
Margin of victory
Turnout			6,11,084
	DMK hold		Swing

2001[]

2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Villivakkam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Napoleon (actor)	164,787	48.21%
	TMC	Chellakumar.A.Dr.	155,557	45.51%
	MDMK	Sivaprakasam J	12,112	3.54%
		Josuva .P	3,139	0.92%
	CPI(ML)L	Kumarasamy .S	1,601	0.47%
	SP	Abubakkar .M	1,150	0.34%
	Independent	Kumarasamy. S.	1,097	0.32%
Margin of victory			9,230	2.70%	-50.66%
Turnout			341,835	41.71%	-9.59%
	DMK gain from TMC		Swing	-22.03%

1996[]

1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Villivakkam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TMC	J. M. Aaroon Rashid	194,471	70.24%
	INC	Mohan. M.G.	46,724	16.88%
	MDMK	Venugopal. M.	17,463	6.31%
	BJP	Selvam. D.	6,714	2.42%
	CPI(ML)L	Kumarasamy. S.	3,384	1.22%
	Independent	Sivakumar. P.	3,107	1.12%
	Independent	Abubacker. M.	905	0.33%
	Independent	Rajendran. V.M.	296	0.11%
Margin of victory			147,747	53.36%	31.66%
Turnout			276,880	51.3%	0.36%
	TMC gain from INC		Swing	14.74%

1991[]

1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Villivakkam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Kalan E.	118,196	55.49%
	CPI(M)	W. R. Varadarajan	71,963	33.79%
	PMK	Govindaraj	11,635	5.46%
	BJP	Gaanasekar	5,953	2.79%
	Independent	Kumarasamy	1,380	0.65%
	IC(S)	Abu Bucker	1,192	0.56%
	Independent	George Komahan	435	0.20%
	Tamilak Kazhagam (TLK)	Nathan B.	108	0.05%
Margin of victory			46,233	21.71%	-6.21%
Turnout			212,993	50.94%	-11.80%
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	8.72%

1989[]

1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Villivakkam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	W. R. Varadarajan	99,571	46.77%
	ADK(JL)	Balasubramaniam. D.M.	40,150	18.86%
	INC	Manivarama. N.M.M	32,211	15.13%
	ADK(JR)	J. C. D. Prabhakar	30,322	14.24%
	Independent	Narayanan. K.M.	1,855	0.87%
	Independent	Senthivelayadam. M	1,266	0.59%
	BJP	Ramakrishnan. V.M.	1,058	0.50%
	Independent	Mahadevan. S.M.	884	0.42%
Margin of victory			59,421	27.91%	27.29%
Turnout			212,886	62.74%	-4.20%
	CPI(M) hold		Swing	-1.44%

1984[]

1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Villivakkam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Chintan. V. P.	81,595	48.21%
	AIADMK	J. C. D. Prabhakar	80,549	47.59%
	Independent	Mohan. M.	4,295	2.54%
	Independent	Michael Mani. C.	682	0.40%
	Independent	Viswanathan. T.	644	0.38%
	Indian Congress (J)	Satheeswaran. E. G.	457	0.27%
	Independent	Pitchaimuthu. M.	221	0.13%
	Independent	Samayamuthu. C.	171	0.10%
Margin of victory			1,046	0.62%	0.03%
Turnout			169,247	66.94%	4.00%
	CPI(M) gain from AIADMK		Swing	0.37%

1980[]

1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Villivakkam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	J. C. D. Prabhakar	57,192	47.84%
	DMK	K. Suppu	56,489	47.25%
	JP	Kanakasabai.R	5,235	4.38%
	Independent	Theodore.C	382	0.32%
	Independent	Balasubramaniam.N	250	0.21%
Margin of victory			703	0.59%	-8.10%
Turnout			119,548	62.94%	7.36%
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing	6.77%

1977[]

1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Villivakkam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DMK	K. Suppu	37,327	41.07%
	AIADMK	R. Sarweshwar Rao	29,429	32.38%
	JP	M.G. Pandurangan	16,518	18.17%
	INC	V.R. Bhagavan	6,477	7.13%
	Independent	M. Senthilvelayutham	445	0.49%
	Independent	M. Janardhanan	294	0.32%
Margin of victory			7,898	8.69%
Turnout			90,891	55.58%
	DMK win (new seat)

References[]

^ "Form 21E (Return of Election)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
^ "Tamil Nadu - Final Notification & Order" (PDF). Delimitation Commission of India. National Informsatics Centre. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 August 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
^ "2016 Tamil Nadu General Election: Constituency Data Summary" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 14. Retrieved 27 May 2016.

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

[1] "Form 21E (Return of Election)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2021.

[2] "Tamil Nadu - Final Notification & Order" (PDF). Delimitation Commission of India. National Informsatics Centre. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 August 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2017.

[3] "2016 Tamil Nadu General Election: Constituency Data Summary" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 14. Retrieved 27 May 2016.

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