M. K. Ashok

M. K. Ashok
M. K. Ashok
	M.K. Ashok in 2021
Member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
	In office; 2011–2016
Constituency	Velachery
Personal details
Political party	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

M. K. Ashok is an Indian politician and was a member of the 14th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from the Velachery constituency in Chennai District. He represented the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party.^[1]

The elections of 2016 resulted in his constituency being won by Vagai Chanderasekar.^[2] Ashok was one of thirteen AIADMK MLAs in the Greater Chennai area who were deselected by the party, apparently in an attempt to thwart a potential anti-incumbency backlash from the electorate following the recent flooding. It was felt that fresh faces would put some distance between the past and the present.^[3]

On 22 June 2015, Ashok, his wife and a relative were injured in a car accident at the village of Pudusukkampatti, near Melur, Madurai.^[4] The three, along with a driver who escaped uninjured, were on their way to attend a funeral in Paramakudi when the accident occurred.^{[citation needed]}

Electoral performance

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Velachery
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	J. M. H. Aassan Maulaana	68,493	39.15%	*New*
	AIADMK	M. K. Ashok	64,141	36.66%	+1.75
	MNM	Dr. Santhosh Babu IAS (Retd)	23,072	13.19%	New
	NTK	M. Keerthana	14,171	8.10%	+5.81
	AMMK	M. Chandrabose	1,977	1.13%	New
	NOTA	NOTA	1,742	1.00%	−1.41
Margin of victory			4,352	2.49%	−2.57%
Turnout			174,972	55.63%	−2.71%
Rejected ballots			70	0.04%
Registered electors			314,537
	INC gain from DMK		Swing	-0.82%

2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election : Velachery^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	M. K. Ashok	82,145	53.91%	*New*
	PMK	M. Jayaraman	50,425	33.10%	New
	Independent	E. Sarathbabu	7,472	4.90%	New
	BJP	Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan	7,048	4.63%	New
	Loktantrik Samajwadi Party	Senthil Kumar Arumugam	1,225	0.80%	New
	IJK	K. N. Seshadri	1,036	0.68%	New
Margin of victory			31,720	20.82%
Turnout			152,364	67.05%
Registered electors			227,249
	AIADMK win (new seat)