The Ambattur legislative assembly election 2016 seat will witness a straight fight between DMK & AIADMK. Other parties that may influence the voters are BJP, Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi and Jananayaka Makkal Munnani.
In the last parliamentary elections in 2014, this assembly segment had given the T. G. Venkatesh Babu AIADMK candidate a good lead of around 99704 votes. However, the situation in 2016 assembly election is completely different from the general election of 2014.
The sitting MLA S Vedhachalam of AIADMK who is contesting from Ambattur has promised various things. The DMK has made significant impact on the voters of this constituency banking on the anti-incumbency factor of the ruling AIADMK. As a result it is difficult predict the outcome of the polls where industrial workers, agricultural labourers and marginal workers have important role to play.
In the 2011 assembly elections AIADMK candidate S. Vedhachalam won the seat by a majority of 22,717 votes. The runner up was the candidate of the DMK party.
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