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Triplicane Assembly constituency

former constituency of the Tamil Nadu Legislative assembly, in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ7843602
Source-derived summary

Triplicane was the legislative assembly constituency, that included the city of Triplicane. Triplicane Assembly constituency was part of Chennai South Lok Sabha constituency, India. After the constituency delimitation of 2008, this constituency has been merged into the newly-formed Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni Assembly constituency.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

2006

2001

1996

1991

1989

1984

1980

1977

1971

1967

1962

1957

1952

References

External links

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

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“Triplicane Assembly constituency” enters the record as former constituency of the Tamil Nadu Legislative assembly, in India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Triplicane, Assembly and constituency can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from Triplicane 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.