Madurai East Assembly constituency explained

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Madurai East is a legislative assembly constituency in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Election results from this constituency are listed below. For the 2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, Madurai East was one of 17 assembly constituencies to use Voter-verified paper audit trail.^{[2] [3]}

Madras State

Year	Assembly	Winner	Party		Tenure
1957	2nd	P. K. R. Lakshmi Kanthan		1957–1962
1962	3rd		1962–1967
1967	4th	K. P. Janakiammal		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1967–1971

Tamil Nadu

Year	Assembly	Winner	Party		Tenure
1971	5th	K. S. Ramakrishnan		1971–1977
1977	6th	N. Sankariah		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1977–1980
1980	7th	N. Sankariah		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1980–1984
1984	8th	K. Kalimuthu		1984–1989
1989	9th	S. R. Eradha (Leader of the Opposition)		1989–1991
1991	10th	O. S. Amarnath		1991–1996
1996	11th	V. Velusamy		1996–2001
2001	12th	N. Nanmaran		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2001–2006
2006	13th	N. Nanmaran		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2006–2011
2011	14th	K. Tamilarasan		2011–2016
2016	15th	P. Moorthy		2016–2021
2021	16th		Incumbent

Election results

1962

References

• Web site: Statistical reports of assembly elections . 8 July 2010 . Election Commission of India . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101005110118/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/ElectionStatistics.asp . 5 October 2010 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Form 21E (Return of Election) . https://web.archive.org/web/20211231093552/https://www.elections.tn.gov.in/Form21E_TNLA2021/AC189.pdf . 14 Feb 2022 . 31 December 2021.
2. News: EC to tighten grip on cash for votes. . 11 February 2016 .
3. News: 20,000 personnel to be deployed for election work . 5 March 2016 . The Hindu . 29 October 2018 .