Perambur is an Meeting/Vidhan Sabha constituency within the Chennai district of Tamil Nadu
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Perambur is an Meeting/Vidhan Sabha constituency within the Chennai district of Tamil Nadu. It falls beneath the Chennai (North) Lok Sabha constituency.
Within the 2016 Tamil Nadu Meeting election, the constituency had a complete of two,90,522 registered voters.
Voter turnout in earlier election
The voter turnout in Perambur within the earlier Meeting election was 64.95 p.c.
Previous election outcomes and winners
Within the 2016 Tamil Nadu Meeting election, P Vetrivel of the AIADMK (All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) gained the Perambur seat. He gained 79,974 votes, as towards 79,455 votes gained by his predominant rival NR Dhanapalan of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).
Nonetheless, after the AIADMK noticed a cut up after the loss of life of former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, he sided with the camp led by TTV Dhinakaran. Vetrivel, together with 17 different pro-Dhinarakan MLAs had been disqualified from the Home in September 2017 for having ‘voluntarily given up’ the AIADMK’s membership.
In a by-election held in 2019, the DMK’s RD Sekar gained the Perambur seat by defeating RS Raajesh of the AIADMK.
Vetrivel handed away on 15 October 9 days after being identified with COVID-19
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The Perambur Meeting constituency is anticipated to go to polls in April or Might 2021, as a part of the Tamil Nadu Meeting election 2021.
The Tamil Nadu Meeting polls will probably be held to elect a complete of 234 Members of Legislative Meeting (MLAs).
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