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 1962 Bashyam Reddy 1967 V. S. Govindarajan
Tamil Nadu
Year Duration Winner Party 1971 1971–77K. Anbazhagan 1977 1977–80 1980 1980–84 1984 1984–89 K. Nanjil Manoharan 1989 1989–91 Arcot N. Veeraswami 1991 1991–96 B. Ranganathan 1996 1996–01 2001 2001–06 2006 2006–2011 V.S. Babu
Election results 2006
2001
1996
1991
1989
1984
1980
1977
1971
1967
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