Purasawalkam Assembly constituency explained

Purasuwalkam
State:Tamil Nadu
Type:SLA
Established:1962
Abolished:2011
District:Chennai
Loksabha Cons:Chennai Central
Electors:167,730 (2006)
Reservation:None

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.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Madras State

YearWinnerParty
1962Bashyam Reddy
1967V. S. Govindarajan

Tamil Nadu

AssemblyDurationWinnerParty
1971 Tamil Nadu state assembly election1971–77K. Anbazhagan
1977 Tamil Nadu state assembly election1977–80
1980 Tamil Nadu state assembly election1980–84
1984 Tamil Nadu state assembly election1984–89K. Nanjil Manoharan
1989 Tamil Nadu state assembly election1989–91Arcot N. Veeraswami
1991 Tamil Nadu state assembly election1991–96B. Ranganathan
1996 Tamil Nadu state assembly election1996–01
2001 Tamil Nadu state assembly election2001–06
2006 Tamil Nadu state assembly election2006–2011V.S. Babu

Election results

1967

References

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