State or region
Speaker
How it's filled
- In plain words
- Chosen by the Assembly from among its members
- Exact method
- Elected by the members of the Legislative Assembly from among themselves (Constitution of India, Art. 178).
- Chosen by
- Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
- Seats
- 1
Sources
- indiacode.nic.in · checked Constitution of India, Arts. 153-168, 170-182, 239-239A; Government of Union Territories Act 1963 (seat counts from Wikipedia state assembly election pages, read 2026-10-12, Fallback: Wikipedia, because the state legislature sites were not fetched). For: Speaker
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