Virugambakkam (state assembly constituency)

Virugambakkam 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.[1] The constituency was created following delimitation of constituencies in 2007.

Year	Winner	Party
2011	B. Parthasarathy	Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam
2016	V. N. Virugai Ravi[2]	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election Results

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
	BJP	Tamiliasi Soundrarajan Dr	19,167	11.19
	DMDK	B Parthasarathy	9,730	5.68
	PMK	C. H. Jayarao	3,945	2.30
Margin of victory			2,333	1.36	-8.43
Turnout			1,71,339	58.63
	AIADMK gain from DMDK		Swing

2011

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Virugampakkam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMDK	B. Partha Sarathy	71,524	49.65	+49.65
	DMK	Thana sekaran K	57,430	39.86	+39.86
	BJP	P. Sritharan	7,525	5.22	+5.22
	Independent	S. Nagavel	3,431	2.38	+2.38
	PB	A. Baskar	1,447	1.00	+1.00
Margin of victory			14,094	9.79	----
Turnout			1,44,204	67.10	New
	DMDK win (new seat)

References

1. "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.
2. "2016 Tamil Nadu General Election: Constituency Data Summary" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 22. Retrieved 27 May 2016.