Type: | SLA |
Constituency No: | 74 |
District: | Villupuram |
Loksabha Cons: | Vilupuram |
State: | Tamil Nadu |
Mla: | R. Lakshmanan |
Latest Election Year: | 2021 |
Villupuram | |
Electors: | 2,62,068[1] |
Reservation: | None |
Villupuram is a state legislative assembly constituency in Viluppuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.[2] Its State Assembly Constituency number is 74. It comprises a portion of Viluppuram taluk and is a part of the Viluppuram constituency for national elections to the Parliament of India.[3] It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu.
Villupuram was one of 17 assembly constituencies to have Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) facilities with EVMs in the state elections of 2016.[4]
Most successful party: DMK (9 times)
Year | Winner | Party | |
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1952 | Nagarajan | Tamil Nadu Toilers' Party | |
1957 | Sarangapani Gounder | ||
1962 | M. Shanmugam | ||
1967 | M. Shanmugam |
Year | Winner | Party | |
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1971 | M. Shanmugam | ||
1977 | P. Krishnan | ||
1980 | K. P. Palaniappan | ||
1984 | M. Mani Rajarathinam | ||
1989 | K. Ponmudy | ||
1991 | D. Janardhanan | ||
1996 | K. Ponmudy | ||
2001 | K. Ponmudy | ||
2006 | K. Ponmudy | ||
2011 | C. V. Shanmugam | ||
2016 | C. V. Shanmugam[5] | ||
2021 | R. Lakshmanan |