Virugampakkam (state assembly constituency)

Virugampakkam
Virugampakkam
Indian electoral constituency
Constituency details
Country	India

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	Virugai V. N. Ravi^[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 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Virugampakkam
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%
	AIJYMKG	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 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Virugampakkam
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 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Virugampakkam
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%
	PB	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)

↑ "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.