Tamil Nadu: Parliamentary elections

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North Indian voters

In 2021

North Indian voters in Chennai, presumably as in 2021 (The figures must be guesstimates)
From: Shanmughasundaram J, March 21, 2021: The Times of India

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North Indian voters in Chennai, presumably as in 2021 (The figures must be guesstimates)

TN as a whole

Tamil Nadu assembly elections (2016)
From: Shanmughasundaram J, March 21, 2021: The Times of India

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Tamil Nadu assembly elections (2016)

Tamil Nadu 2014

 

S.No.	Costituency	Name Of Member	Party
1	Arakkonam	Hari, G.	AIADMK
2	Arani	V.Elumalai	AIADMK
3	Chennai Central	S.R. Vijayakumar	AIADMK
4	Chennai North	Venkatesh Babu .T.G	AIADMK
5	Chennai South	Dr. J. Jayavardhan	AIADMK
6	Chidambaram	Chandrakasi, M	AIADMK
7	Coimbatore	Nagarajan, P.	AIADMK
8	Cuddalore	Arunmozhithevan.A	AIADMK
9	Dharmapuri	Anbumani Ramadoss	PMM
10	Dindigul	Udhaya Kumar .M	AIADMK
11	Erode	Selvakumara Chinnayan S	AIADMK
12	Kallakurichi	Kamaraj. K	AIADMK
13	Kancheepuram	Maragatham K	AIADMK
14	Kanniyakumari	Radhakrishnan P.	BJP
15	Karur	Thambidurai,M.	AIADMK
16	Krishnagiri	Ashok Kumar.K	AIADMK
17	Madurai	R.Gopalakrishnan	AIADMK
18	Mayiladuthurai	Bharathi Mohan R.K	AIADMK
19	Nagapattinam	Gopal. Dr. K	AIADMK
20	Namakkal	Sundaram P.R	AIADMK
21	Nilgiris	Gopalakrishnan, C.	AIADMK
22	Perambalur	Marutharajaa, R.P.	AIADMK
23	Pollachi	Mahendran.C	AIADMK
24	Ramanathapuram	Anwhar Raajhaa.A	AIADMK
25	Salem	Pannerselvam.V	AIADMK
26	Sivaganga	Senthilnathan Pr	AIADMK
27	Sriperumbudur	Ramachandran, K.N. Thiru	AIADMK
28	Tenkasi	Vasanthi.M	AIADMK
29	Thanjavur	Parasuraman.K	AIADMK
30	Theni	Parthipan, R.	AIADMK
31	Thoothukkudi	Jeyasingh Thiyagaraj Natterjee.J	AIADMK
32	Tiruchirappalli	Kumar.P	AIADMK
33	Tirunelveli	Prabakaran.K.R.P	AIADMK
34	Tiruppur	V.Sathyabama	AIADMK
35	Tiruvallur	Venugopal.P. Dr	AIADMK
36	Tiruvannamalai	Vanaroja R	AIADMK
37	Vellore	Senguttuvan, B.	AIADMK
38	Viluppuram	Rajendran S	AIADMK
39	Virudhunagar	Radhakrishnan T	AIADMK

 

2009, 2014

Amma shows no karuna, ADMK bags 37 of 39 seats

Chennai:

The Times of India May 17 2014

Tamil Nadu 2014

Chennai: Tamil Nadu saw an unprecedented landslide win for the ruling party in the Lok Sabha polls, a result which has wiped DMK out of the national scene. While exit polls had given AIADMK a clear lead, it has belied all projections with a sweep on the third anniversary of the present regime in TN.

Contesting on its own in 39 seats, AIADMK has won 37 seats and emerged the third largest unit in Parliament. The previous best performance by any party in TN had been 31 for Congres in 1962. While extending her best wishes to the new PM, AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa credited the victory to “the beloved people of Tamil Nadu“ and said she hoped the government at the Centre would be friendly to TN.

However, there was disappointment among secondrung leaders in AIADMK who said they missed being part of the Central government despite such an impressive performance. Asked whether her party would lend support to the BJP dispensation, Jayalalithaa said, “The situation does not arise now.“ The scale of the victory in TN was evident from the fact that 19 AIADMK candidates have won by a margin of more than one lakh votes despite being in multi-cornered contests against DMK, Congres and the BJP-led front.

DMK's decimation was evident in that it failed to make an impact even in traditional strongholds of Dalit, Muslim and OBC voters. Former ministers A Raja, Daya nidhi Maran and T R Baalu were among the prominent losers. In Nilgiris, where Raja was routed by a margin of 1.04 lakh votes, another 46,559 votes were polled under NOTA. Maran's Central Chennai polled more than 22,000 NOTA votes. In many seats, DMK emerged third behind the BJP front. DMK president M Karunanidhi said, “We accept the defeat with all humility . But DMK won't wither away .“

Jayalalithaa's recordbreaking win is partly attributed to sound implementation of welfare schemes and her image as a protector of Tamil interests. Despite a loud opposition campaign that harped on a governance deficit amidst power and water shortages, the AIADMK chief was able to blunt the at tack by rolling out schemes and proposals that touched every section.

The only parties that managed to withstand the AIADMK wave were BJP and its ally PMK, which got one seat each. State BJP presi dent Pon Radhakrishnan won from Kanyakumari and PMK's Anbumani Ramadoss from Dharmapuri. Sources said BJP may ensure repre sentation for both at the Cen tre with an eye on the 2016 assembly polls in TN. Congres candidates lost deposits in most seats. Former Union fi nance minister's son Karti Chidambaram was pushed to fourth place in Sivaganga.

The lone seat in Pudu cherry was won by a candidate from AINRC, another al ly of BJP, who defeated Union minister V Narayanasamy . TEAM TOI

2019

DMK-Cong sweep LS, ADMK wins 9/ 22assembly

May 24, 2019: The Times of India

Constituencies won by the main political parties in the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 and 2019 in TN
From: May 24, 2019: The Times of India

DMK wins big in LS, state but Stalin can’t go on power trip

EPS Staves Off Threat To Govt With Assembly Face-Saver By Winning 9 Seats

Chennai:

Riding a perceptible anti-Modi wave in Tamil Nadu, the DMK alliance won or was leading in 37 out of the state’s 38 Lok Sabha seats. It registered huge margins in several of the seats it bagged. But despite the Lok Sabha result and winning 13 of the 22 seats in the assembly bypolls, the victories would not have tasted as sweet as DMK would have liked. For one, BJP romped home with a clear majority at the Centre, and the bypoll victory fell agonisingly short for the party to challenge rival AIADMK in the state.

Facing the first big election after the demise of his father M Karunanidhi, DMK president M K Stalin helped his party sweep all the 20 seats it fought. All DMK allies, barring Congress which lost the Theni seat in its quota of 10, also rode to success. In Central Chennai, the winning margin for DMK’s Dayanidhi Maran was so big that all his opponents lost their deposits.

But just like it was in 2014, when AIADMK had 37 MPs, the current national political alignment may not give DMK MPs any significant role in Parliament for the second successive term. And while Stalin will have to continue his political struggle for power in the state, his bête noire, chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, can heave a sigh of relief despite his party-led alliance being nearly routed in the state. By winning nine seats in the bypoll, he has helped his party retain power and ensured his continuance as chief minister. Interestingly, factoring in the political cost, EPS, too, had focused his energy and strategy on the 22 assembly bypoll seats more than the Lok Sabha seats. While AIADMK allies — BJP, PMK and DMDK — saw the tactic, they could do little.

EPS has not only completed two years in power already, but could aspire to continue for two more years, especially after forcing TTV Dhinakaran and his AMMK to bite the dust at the hustings.

In several constituencies, AMMK candidates came a distant third, while in a few they were relegated even further down by Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM), which came an impressive third in all three Chennai constituencies as well as in Coimbatore, among others, in its debut election. The party’s candidates polled more than one lakh votes in some places.

BJP, which forced AIADMK for an alliance, ended up losing all five seats it fought. PMK, which was pitted against DMK in six seats and a candidate contesting on DMK’s symbol in the seventh, lost all of them, including Dharmapuri, where its youth wing president Anbumani Ramadoss failed to retain seat.

Actor Vijayakant’s DMDK, which created the maximum noise over aligning with AIADMK or DMK, before settling for four seats with the former, was another heavy loser, failing to open its account.

The party’s candidates in Dindigul and Trichy helped DMK alliance candidates score big victories.