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Tiruvaiyaru 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 authorityQ7809448 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tiruvaiyaru is a state assembly constituency in Thanjavur district in Tamil Nadu. The constituency has been in existence since the 1957 election.

Most successful party: DMK (eight times). It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu, in India.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Madras State

Tamil Nadu

Election results

2026

2021

2016

2011

2006

2001

1996

1991

1989

1984

1980

1977

1971

1967

1962

1957

References

"Statistical reports of assembly elections". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2010.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tiruvaiyaru Assembly constituency” is constituency of the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly in India. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tiruvaiyaru, Assembly and constituency, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1957, 2026, 2021, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1957. For this dossier, Tiruvaiyaru, Assembly and constituency is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7809448. Authority coordinates are 10.880, 79.096. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1957, 2026, 2021 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tiruvaiyaru 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.