List of constituencies of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the Tamil Nadu Legislature.[1] The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly alone has powers to legislate laws covering state subjects in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu as the state has Unicameral legislature. It has a strength of 235 members of whom 234 are democratically elected using the First-past-the-post system. The remaining member is nominated as a representative of the Anglo Indian community. The presiding officer of the Assembly is called the Speaker. The term of the Assembly is five years unless it is dissolved earlier.
List of constituencies
Constituencies were delimited in 2008 based on the Census 2001.[2]
References
- ↑ "Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly". Government of Tamil Nadu.
- ↑ "Constituency Delimitation, Tamil Nadu" (PDF). CEO, Tamil Nadu. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ↑ "Pala. Karuppiah quits Assembly seat". The Hindu. 29 January 2016.
External links
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, May 05, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.