Virugampakkam (state assembly constituency)

Virugampakkam
Virugampakkam
Constituency for the State Assembly
Constituency details
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Chennai
LS constituency	Chennai South
Total electors	291,642
Most successful party	DMK (14 times)
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA	A. M. V. Prabhakara Raja
Party	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Elected year	2021

13°02′58″N 80°11′06″E / 13.049557°N 80.184928°E

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.^[2] The constituency was created following delimitation of constituencies in 2007.

Year	Winner
2011	B. Parthasarathy	Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam
2016	^[3]	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2021	AMV Prabakara Raja	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election Results[]

Vote share of Winning candidates

2021			44.38%
2016			38.51%
2011			49.65%

2021[]

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Virugambakkam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	A. M. V. Prabhakara Raja	74,351	44.38%	7.24%
	AIADMK	Virugai V. N. Ravi	55,984	33.42%	-5.09%
	MNM	Senegan	16,939	10.11%
	NTK	T. S. Rajendran	10,185	6.08%	4.37%
	Independent	M. Gunasekaran (A) Star M. Gunasekaran	5,186	3.10%
	DMDK	B. Parthasarathy	1,585	0.95%	-4.73%
	NOTA	Nota	1,563	0.93%	-1.34%
	Independent	R. Mayilsamy	1,440	0.86%
	Independent	Sathasivam	344	0.21%
		M. S. Ismail Khan	209	0.12%
	Independent	M. Mannu	148	0.09%
Margin of victory			18,367	10.96%	9.60%
Turnout			167,524	57.44%	-1.19%
Rejected ballots			187	0.11%
Registered electors			291,642
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	5.87%

2016[]

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Virugambakkam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	V. N. Virugai Ravi	65,979	38.51%
	DMK	K Thanasekaran	63,646	37.15%	-2.72%
	BJP	Tamiliasi Soundrarajan. Dr	19,167	11.19%	5.96%
	DMDK	B. Parthasarathy	9,730	5.68%	-43.97%
	PMK	C. H. Jayarao	3,945	2.30%
	NOTA	None Of The Above	3,897	2.27%
	NTK	T. S. Rajendran	2,926	1.71%
	KMDK	A. Seenevasan	296	0.17%
	YSRCP	Dilip Mathew John	283	0.17%
	Independent	B. Senthil Kumar	265	0.15%
	Independent	N. Ravi	218	0.13%
Margin of victory			2,333	1.36%	-8.42%
Turnout			171,339	58.63%	-8.41%
Registered electors			292,248
	AIADMK gain from DMDK		Swing	-11.14%

2011[]

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Virugambakkam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DMDK	Partha Sarathy B	71,524	49.65%
	DMK	Thanasekaran K	57,430	39.86%
	BJP	Sritharan P	7,525	5.22%
	Independent	Nagavel. S.	3,431	2.38%
		Baskar. A	1,447	1.00%
	BSP	Subramaniyam. V.	969	0.67%
	Independent	Parthasarathy. N	670	0.47%
	Independent	Sridhar. S	540	0.37%
	Independent	Thiyagarajan. P	309	0.21%
	Independent	Valayapathy. V	224	0.16%
Margin of victory			14,094	9.78%
Turnout			214,898	67.04%
Registered electors			144,069
	DMDK win (new seat)

References[]

^ "Form 21E (Return of Election)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
^ "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.
^ "2016 Tamil Nadu General Election: Constituency Data Summary" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 22. Retrieved 27 May 2016.

[1] "Form 21E (Return of Election)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.

[2] "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.

[3] "2016 Tamil Nadu General Election: Constituency Data Summary" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 22. Retrieved 27 May 2016.

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