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Velachery 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 revisionAug 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ7918773 ↗
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Velachery is a state assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu, India, that was formed after constituency delimitation in 2008. Its State Assembly Constituency number is 26. It forms a part of Chennai South Lok Sabha constituency for national elections.

It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Velachery, Assembly and constituency is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Velachery 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.