M. Varalakshmi (born 16 April 1974) is an Indian politician and member of the

Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It has a strength of 234 members of whom are democratically elected using the First-past-the-post system. The presiding officer of the Assembl ...

. She was elected as the representative of the Chengalpattu constituency in the

2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election The Fifteenth Legislative Assembly Election was held on 16 May 2016 for the 232 seats (except Thanjavur and Aravakurichi for which held on 26 October 2016) of the Legislative Assembly in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. AIADMK under J. Jay ...

as a member of the

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; DMK) is a political party based in the state of Tamil Nadu where it is currently the ruling party having a comfortable majority without coalition support and the union territory of Puducherry where it is curre ...

Personal life

Varalakshmi is a resident of Appur village in the

Kanchipuram district Kancheepuram district is one of the 38 districts in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. The area comprising the present day Kancheepuram district was earlier a part of Chingleput district. The original Chingleput district was split in 1997 into ...

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil languag ...

and a diploma graduate of the Kanchipuram Government College of Nursing.

Political career

Varalakshmi was the representative as the head of the Appur Panchayat between 2006 and 2016. In the 2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, she was nominated to contest as the candidate of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam from the Chengalpattu state assembly constituency in the Kanchipuram district . Her primary opponent in the election was R. Kamalakkannan who was the candidate of the

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; AIADMK) is an Indian regional political party with great influence in the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is a Dravidian party founded by the former chief ...

. The election resulted in Varalakshmi emerging as the winning candidate with a margin of over 27,000 votes and polling at 45.11% of the votes cast against 34.58% of the votes cast in favor of Kamalakkannan.

Electoral performance

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Varalakshmi, M. 1974 births Living people Tamil Nadu MLAs 2016–2021 Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians Tamil Nadu MLAs 2021–2026