The Ambasamudram Assembly constituency along the lap of the Western Ghats, which has been blessed with three prime reservoirs but left with a lot of infrastructural problems, is all set to witness a battle between the AIADMK and the Congress this time.

While winners of the very first Assembly election held in Tamil Nadu in the early 50s were all Indian National Congress candidates, Ambasamudram constituency preferred to choose Independent candidate P. Chockalingam over Congress contestant Lakshmi Sankara Iyer in the first poll held in 1952. However, ‘business’ became ‘as usual’ in the next election as Congress candidate G. Gomathisankara Dikshidar got elected to the Assembly in 1957 and he continued the wining streak till 1967 even when the DMK emerged victorious in this election and formed the government under the leadership of C.N. Annadurai.