About Chengalpattu Assembly Constituency

Chengalpattu is constituency No. 32 of Tamil Nadu legislative assembly. It comes under the Chengalpattu Lok Sabha Constituency. This unreserved assembly seat is situated in Kanchipuram district.

According to the Election Commission of India, Chengalpattu constituency has 2,52,409 registered voters out of which 1,27,482 are male and 1,24,874 are female voters.

In the 2011 assembly elections, the DMDK managed to win this seat by a very narrow margin of just 291 votes. D. Murugesan, the DMDK candidate, got 83,297 votes. His main opponent, V. G. Rangasamy, got 83,006. The voter turnout was 74.08 %. It was a significant win for the recently-formed DMDK party. Chengalpattu seat had been with the PMK for the preceding two consecutive terms.

Sitting and previous MLAs from Chengalpattu Assembly Constituency

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Chengalpattu assembly elections conducted so far.

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Sex	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2011	32	Chengalpattu	GEN	D. Murugesan	M	DMDK	83297	V. G. Rangasamy	M	PMK	83006
2006	22	Chengalpattu	GEN	Arumugam, K	M	PMK	61664	Arumugam, S	M	AIADMK	51451
2001	22	Chengalpattu	GEN	Arumugam K	M	PMK	52465	Viswanathan V	M	DMK	47316
1996	22	Chengalpattu	GEN	Tamilmani, V.	M	DMK	66443	Kumarasamy, C.V.N.	M	ADMK	29638
1991	22	Chengalpattu	GEN	Vardarajan C.D.	M	ADK	51694	Tamilmani V.	M	DMK	34896
1989	22	Chengalpattu	GEN	V. Tamilmani	M	DMK	38948	C.D. Varadarajan	M	ADK(JL)	22607
1984	22	Chengalpattu	GEN	Jegadesan, Annor, G.	M	ADK	45423	Rudrakotti, V.	M	DMK	44203
1980	22	Chengalpattu	GEN	Jagadeesan,Anoor,P.G	M	ADK	40466	Natarajan,K	M	INC(I)	35314
1977	22	Chengalpattu	GEN	Jagadeesan Anoor	M	ADK	29306	V. Rudrakotti	M	DMK	25436