# Purasawalkam Assembly constituency

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

| Year | Winner | Party | Party |
| 1962 | Bashyam Reddy | | Indian National Congress |
| 1967 | V. S. Govindarajan | | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |

### Tamil Nadu

| Assembly | Duration | Winner | Party |
| 1971 Tamil Nadu state assembly election | 1971–77 | K. Anbazhagan | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| 1977 Tamil Nadu state assembly election | 1977–80 | K. Anbazhagan | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| 1980 Tamil Nadu state assembly election | 1980–84 | K. Anbazhagan | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| 1984 Tamil Nadu state assembly election | 1984–89 | K. Nanjil Manoharan | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| 1989 Tamil Nadu state assembly election | 1989–91 | Arcot N. Veeraswami | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| 1991 Tamil Nadu state assembly election | 1991–96 | B. Ranganathan | Indian National Congress |
| 1996 Tamil Nadu state assembly election | 1996–01 | B. Ranganathan | Tamil Maanila Congress |
| 2001 Tamil Nadu state assembly election | 2001–06 | B. Ranganathan | Indian National Congress |
| 2006 Tamil Nadu state assembly election | 2006–2011 | V.S. Babu | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |

## Election results
### 2006

2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | DMK | Babu. V.S. | 90,140 | 53.74% | |
| | AIADMK | Venkateshbabu | 82,777 | 49.35% | |
| | DMDK | Jacquelene Gomez | 12,690 | 7.57% | |
| | BJP | Elumalai. V. | 2,019 | 1.20% | |
| | SWA | Kamalaakannan. J. | 769 | 0.46% | |
| | Independent | Raja. K. | 603 | 0.36% | |
| Margin of victory | Margin of victory | Margin of victory | 7,363 | 4.39% | 1.74% |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 167,730 | 87.51% | −45.83% |
| | DMK hold | DMK hold | Swing | 5.21% | |

### 2001

2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | DMK | B. Ranganathan | 69,681 | 48.53% | |
| | TMC(M) | Vetriivel P | 65,879 | 45.89% | |
| | MDMK | Gurunathan S | 4,902 | 3.41% | |
| | JD(S) | Antony Xavier R | 1,033 | 0.72% | |
| | Independent | Venkataramani J | 598 | 0.42% | |
| | Independent | Peter Solomon | 389 | 0.27% | |
| Margin of victory | Margin of victory | Margin of victory | 3,802 | 2.65% | −49.58% |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 143,574 | 46.71% | −11.55% |
| | DMK gain from TMC(M) | DMK gain from TMC(M) | Swing | -22.07% | |

### 1996

1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | TMC(M) | B. Ranganathan | 98,157 | 70.61% | |
| | INC | Gnanam. J. Kathipara | 25,543 | 18.37% | |
| | BJP | Ethirajan. G. | 9,128 | 6.57% | |
| | MDMK | Dhakshina Murthy. K. | 2,623 | 1.89% | |
| | PMK | Nadesan. M. | 1,604 | 1.15% | |
| | Independent | Gnana Sekar. A. | 657 | 0.47% | |
| Margin of victory | Margin of victory | Margin of victory | 72,614 | 52.23% | 34.39% |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 139,022 | 58.26% | 2.18% |
| | TMC(M) gain from INC | TMC(M) gain from INC | Swing | 14.83% | |

### 1991

1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | INC | B. Ranganathan | 71,391 | 39.68% | |
| | DMK | Arcot N. Veeraswami | 48,559 | 26.99% | |
| | PMK | Manivannan R. | 3,656 | 20.32% | |
| | BJP | Selvaraj B. | 3,120 | 17.34% | |
| | JP | Sagunthala B. | 243 | 1.35% | |
| | Independent | Elango S. | 206 | 1.14% | |
| Margin of victory | Margin of victory | Margin of victory | 22,832 | 17.84% | −9.97% |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 127,992 | 56.08% | −12.16% |
| | INC gain from DMK | INC gain from DMK | Swing | 5.90% | |

### 1989

1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | DMK | Arcot N. Veeraswami | 68,640 | 49.88% | |
| | AIADMK | B. Ranganathan | 30,376 | 22.07% | |
| | Independent | Anbarasu. C. | 29,962 | 21.77% | |
| | BJP | Purasai Kumaran | 5,169 | 3.76% | |
| | Independent | Meiyappan. R. | 1,130 | 0.82% | |
| | Independent | Mahendran. K. | 319 | 0.23% | |
| Margin of victory | Margin of victory | Margin of victory | 38,264 | 27.81% | 24.04% |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 137,613 | 68.24% | 1.73% |
| | DMK hold | DMK hold | Swing | -1.26% | |

### 1984

1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | DMK | Nanjil K. Manoharan | 61,246 | 51.14% | |
| | AIADMK | Suppu. K. | 56,736 | 47.37% | |
| | Independent | Dhanapal R. H. | 482 | 0.40% | |
| | Independent | Manivannan. D. | 206 | 0.17% | |
| | Independent | Selyamary. S. | 200 | 0.17% | |
| | Independent | Munirathinam. E. | 196 | 0.16% | |
| Margin of victory | Margin of victory | Margin of victory | 4,510 | 3.77% | −1.90% |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 119,763 | 66.51% | 6.74% |
| | DMK hold | DMK hold | Swing | -1.21% | |

### 1980

1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | DMK | K. Anbazhagan | 52,729 | 52.35% | |
| | AIADMK | Valampuri John | 47,021 | 46.68% | |
| | JP | Manivannan.D | 535 | 0.53% | |
| | Independent | Mani.D | 439 | 0.44% | |
| Margin of victory | Margin of victory | Margin of victory | 5,708 | 5.67% | −15.27% |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 100,724 | 59.77% | 14.50% |
| | DMK hold | DMK hold | Swing | 7.26% | |

### 1977

1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | DMK | K. Anbazhagan | 41,073 | 45.09% | |
| | JP | T. S. Govindaswamy | 22,004 | 24.16% | |
| | ADK | P.A. Venkateshwaralu | 19,745 | 21.68% | |
| | CPI | R. Dakshinamoorthy | 7,206 | 7.91% | |
| | Independent | H. Stanley | 265 | 0.29% | |
| | Independent | Rajesekharan | 248 | 0.27% | |
| Margin of victory | Margin of victory | Margin of victory | 19,069 | 20.94% | 6.46% |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 91,085 | 45.27% | −18.47% |
| | DMK hold | DMK hold | Swing | -11.03% | |

### 1971

1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | DMK | K. Anbazhagan | 47,182 | 56.13% | |
| | INC | Bashyam Reddy | 35,016 | 41.65% | |
| | Independent | M Deenan | 1,865 | 2.22% | |
| Margin of victory | Margin of victory | Margin of victory | 12,166 | 14.47% | 7.18% |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 84,063 | 63.74% | −10.63% |
| | DMK hold | DMK hold | Swing | -1.91% | |

### 1967

1967 Madras Legislative Assembly election: Purasawalkam :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | DMK | V. S. Govindarajan | 41,272 | 58.04% |
| | INC | Damodaran | 29,046 | 40.85% |
| | ABJS | Krishniah | 792 | 1.11% |
| Margin of victory | Margin of victory | Margin of victory | 12,226 | 7.29% |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 71,110 | 74.37% |
| | DMK gain from | DMK gain from | Swing | |