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Madurai South Assembly constituency

constituency of the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ6728820 ↗
Source-derived summary

Madurai South is a legislative assembly constituency in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu, in India. Elections and winners from this constituency are listed below.

Extent of Assembly constituency

Madurai South Taluk (part)

Madurai (M Corp.) Ward No.9, 10, 16, 39 and 43 to 59

This is a new constituency which includes majority of the erstwhile Madurai East constituency.

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The public source identifies “Madurai South Assembly constituency” as constituency of the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly in India. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Madurai, South and Assembly.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 72-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1952. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Madurai, South and Assembly providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6728820. Authority coordinates are 9.878, 78.039. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Madurai South Assembly constituency” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.