2019 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu explained

The 2019 elections for Tamil Nadu's 39 seats in the 17th Lok Sabha were held on 18 April, in the second phase of the 2019 Indian general elections. The alliance led by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, won a landslide victory, taking 38 of the 39 seats. ECI has announced that the by-election (2019 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly by-elections) for 18 assembly constituencies together with the general elections (18 constituencies polling date – 18 April 2019 and 4 Constituencies – 19 May 2019). The counting of votes was held on 23 May and results were published on the same day.

There are 39 Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu, with an average of 1.51 million voters in each one.

Seat allotments

United Progressive Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam			M. K. Stalin	20
	Indian National Congress			K. S. Alagiri	9
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)			K. Balakrishnan	2
	Communist Party of India			R. Mutharasan	2
	Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi			Thol. Thirumavalavan	2
	Indian Union Muslim League			K. M. Kader Mohideen	1
	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam			Vaiko	1
	Kongunadu Makkal Desia Katchi			E. R. Eswaran	1
	Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi			T. R. Paarivendhar	1

AMMK – SDPI Front

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Amma Makkal Munnettra Kazhagam			T. T. V. Dhinakaran	38
	Social Democratic Party of India				1

Non-aligned parties

Party			Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Naam Tamilar Katchi	NTK			Seeman	39
	Makkal Needhi Maiam	MNM			Kamal Haasan	36

Opinion polls

Date published	Polling agency			AMMK	Lead
		SPA	NDA
October 2018	Spick Media		6	7	19
March 2019	Times Now-VMR		5	0	29
March 2019	News Nation		15	NA	9
March 2019	India TV-CNX		15	2	7
April 2019	People studies-Loyola College		3–5	1–2	28
April 2019	Thanthi TV		9–17	0	14
April 2019	Republic TV		20–21	0	2
6 April 2019	IndiaTV-CNX		13	5	8
8 April 2019	Times Now-VMR		6	0	27
8 April 2019	PuthiyaThalaimurai TV		6–8	0	27

Exit polls

Polling Agency	SPA	NDA	AMMK	MNM	NTK
Thanthi TV	23	14	0	0	0
India Today	34–38	0–4	0	0	0
Times Now	29	9	0	0	0
People Political Predictions	25	4	9	0	0

Voter turnout

1. Web site: Final Voter turnout of Phase 1 to Phase 5 of the Lok Sabha Elections 2019 . Election Commission of India . en-IN . 21 May 2019.

Highest turnout in Dharmapuri constituency of 82.41% and the lowest is in Chennai South constituency of 57.07%.

Results

Coalition wise result

Alliance/Party				Seats			Popular vote
				Contested	Won	+/−	Votes	%	±pp[2]
	Secular Progressive Alliance		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	24	24	24	14,363,332	33.52%	9.61%
			Indian National Congress[3]	9	8	8	5,405,674	12.72%	8.35%
			Communist Party of India[4]	2	2	2	1,031,617	2.41%	1.86%
			Communist Party of India (Marxist)[5]	2	2	2	1,018,225	2.38%	1.83%
			Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi	1	1	1	500,229	1.17%	0.34%
			Indian Union Muslim League	1	1	1	469,943	1.09%	0.58%
			Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi	1	1	1
			Kongunadu Makkal Desia Katchi[6]	1	1	1
			Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam[7]	1	1	1
		Total		39	38	38	2,27,89,020	53.29%	7.55%
	National Democratic Alliance		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam[8]	20	1	36	8,307,345	19.39%	25.53%
			Pattali Makkal Katchi[9]	7	0	1	2,297,431	5.36%	0.85%
			Bharatiya Janata Party	5	0	1	1,551,924	3.62%	1.94%
			Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam	4	0		929,590	2.17%	3.02%
			Tamil Maanila Congress	1	0		220,849	0.51%
		Total		38	1	38	1,33,07,139	31.05%
	AMMK–SDPI alliance		Amma Makkal Munnettra Kazagam	38	0
			Social Democratic Party of India	1	0		23,741	0.05%
-	-		Naam Tamilar Katchi	37	0		1,672,217	3.90%
	MNM Alliance		Makkal Needhi Maiam	36	0		1,575,640	3.67%	New

• VCK, IJK, MDMK and KMDK contested one seat in DMK's Rising Sun party symbol, therefore they will be considered as DMK party candidates officially by ECI affidavit and will represent as DMK in Parliament

Detailed results

Constituency-wise results:^{[10] [11] [12]}

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Candidates
SPA			NDA		AMMK	MNM		NTK		Winning candidate	Winning party	Margin
		DMK	S. Jagathrakshakan					N.Rajendran		Y.R.Pavendhan	S. Jagathrakshakan	DMK	328956
		INC			AIADMK – Senji V. Ezhumalai			V.Shaji		A.Thamilarasi	Dr. M. K. Vishnu Prasad	INC	230806
		DMK	Dayanidhi Maran		PMK – S.R.Sam Paul	SDPI – Dehlan Baqavi		Kameela Nassar		R.Karthikeyan	Dayanidhi Maran	DMK	301520
		DMK			DMDK – R. Mohanraj	P.Santhana Krishnan		A.G. Mourya		P.Kaliyammaal	Kalanidhi Veeraswamy	DMK	461518
		DMK	Thamizhachi Thangapandian		AIADMK – J. Jayavardhan			R. Rangarajan		A.J.Sherine	Sumathy (A) Thamizachi Thangapandian	DMK	262223
		VCK	Thol. Thirumavalavan		AIADMK – P. Chandrasekar	A. Elavarasan		T.Ravi		M.Siva Jothi	Thol. Thirumavalavan	VCK	3219
		CPI(M)			BJP – C. P. Radhakrishnan	N. R. Appadurai		R.Mahendran		S.Kalyana Sundharam	P.R. Natarajan	CPI(M)	176918
		DMK	T.R.V.S. Ramesh		PMK – R. Govindasamy	K.Thangavel		V.Annamalai		R.Sithra	T.R.V.S. Ramesh	DMK	143983
		DMK			PMK – Anbumani Ramadoss			D.Rajashekar		R.Rukmini Devi	S. Senthil Kumar	DMK	70753
		DMK	P. Veluchamy		PMK -K.Jothimuthu	P.Jothi Murugan		S.Sudhakaran		Mansoor Ali Khan	P. Veluchamy	DMK	538972
		MDMK	A. Ganesha Murthi[13] (DMK[14])		AIADMK – G. Manimaran	K. C. Senthilkumar		A.Saravanakumar		M.C.Seetha Laxmi	A. Ganesha Murthi	DMK[15]	210618
		DMK	Pon.Gautham Sigamani		DMDK – L.K. Sudhish	M.Komugi Manian		H.Ganesh		S.Sharfudeen	Pon.Gautham Sigamani	DMK	399919
		DMK	G. Selvam			A. Munusamy		---		D.Sivaranjani	G. Selvam	DMK	286632
		INC	H. Vasanthakumar		BJP – Pon Radhakrishnan	E.Lekshmanan		J.Ebenezer		V.Jainteen	H. Vasanthakumar	INC	259933
		INC				P.S.N.Thangavel		R.Hariharan		R.Karupriya	S.Jothimani	INC	420546
		INC			AIADMK – K. P. Munusamy	S. Ganesa kumar		Srikarunya Subramanyam		N.Madhusoodhanan	A. Chellakumar	INC	156765
		CPI(M)	S. Venkatesan		AIADMK – V.V.R. Raj Satyen	K. David Annadurai		P.Alagar		J.Pandiyammal	S. Venkatesan	CPI(M)	139395
		DMK			AIADMK – S. Aasaimani	S. Senthamizhan		M.Refayudeen		K.Shubashini	S. Ramalingam	DMK	261314
		CPI	M.Selvaraj		AIADMK – M. Saravanan	T. Sengodi		K.Guruviah		P.Malathi	M.Selvaraj	CPI	209349
		KDMK	A.K.P. Chinnaraj (DMK)		AIADMK -P. Kaliappan	P. P. Saminathan		R.Thangavelu		B.Bhaskar	A.K.P. Chinnaraj	DMK[16]	265151
		DMK	A Raja		AIADMK – M.Thyagarajan	M. Ramaswamy		N.Rajendran		---	A Raja		205823[17]
		IJK	T.R.Paarivendhar (DMK)		AIADMK – N. R. Sivapathy	M. Rajasekaran		---		K.Santhi	T.R.Paarivendhar	DMK[18]	403518
		DMK	K. Shamugasundaram		AIADMK – C. Mahendran	S. Muthukumar		R.Mookambikai		A.Sanuja	K. Shamugasundaram	DMK	173359
		IUML	Navaskani		BJP – Nainar Nagendran	V. T. N. Anandh		Vijaya Baskar		T.Bhuvaneshwari	Navaskani	IUML	126237
		DMK			AIADMK – K. R. S. Saravanan			M.Prabu Manikandan		A.Rasa	S. R. Parthiban	DMK	146926
		INC				V. Pandi		Kavingnar Snehan		V.Sakthi Priya	Karti P Chidambaram	INC	332244
		DMK	T R Baalu		PMK – A. Vaithilingam	G. Tambaram Narayanan		M.Srithar		R.Mahendran	T R Baalu	DMK	484732
		DMK	Dhanush M Kumar			S.Ponnuthai		K.Muneshwaran		S.S.Madhivanan	Dhanush M Kumar	DMK	120286
		DMK			TMC- N. R. Nadarajan	P. Murugesan		R.S. Sampath Ramadoss		N.Krishnakumar	S S Palanimanickam	DMK	368129
		INC			AIADMK – P. Ravindhranath			S. Radhakrishnan		Sagul Hameed		AIADMK	76672
		INC	K.Jayakumar					M.Logarangan		M.Vetri Selvi	K.Jayakumar	INC	356955
		DMK				M. Bhuvaneswaran		T.P.S. Pon Kumaran		Christatine S. Rajasekar	Kanimozhi Karunanidhi	DMK	347209
		INC			DMDK – V. Ilangovan			V.Anandha Raja		V.Vinoth	Su. Thirunavukkarasar	INC	459286
		DMK	S. Gnanathiraviam		AIADMK – P. H. Paul Manoj Pandian			M.Vennimalai		B.Sathya	S. Gnanathiraviam	DMK	185457
		CPI			AIADMK – M. S. M. Anandan	S. R. Selvam		V.S.Chandrakumar		P.Jaganathan	K. Subbarayan	CPI	93368
		DMK	C. N. Annadurai		AIADMK – Agri S.S. Krishnamoorthy	A.Gnanasekar		R.Arul		R.Ramesh Babu	C. N. Annadurai	DMK	304187
		DMK	D. M. Kathir Anand			---		---		S.Deepalakshmi	D. M. Kathir Anand		8141
		VCK	D. Ravikumar (DMK)		PMK – S. Vadivel Raavanan			S. Anbil Poyyamozhi		D.Pragalatha	D. Ravikumar	DMK[19]	128068
		INC			DMDK – R. Azhagarsamy	Paramasiva Iyyappan		V.Muniyasamy		K.Arunmozhi Thevan	Manickam Tagore	INC	154554

1. Web site: Final Voter turnout of Phase 1 to Phase 5 of the Lok Sabha Elections 2019 . Election Commission of India . en-IN . 21 May 2019.
2. Web site: 17. State Wise Seat Won & Valid Votes Polled by Political Parties . Election Commission of India . 18 June 2021 . 10 August 2022.
3. Web site: Congress, DMK Announce Alliance For 2019 General Elections . NDTV . 20 February 2019.
4. Web site: DMK signs seat-sharing pacts with three allies . The Hindu . 5 March 2019.
5. Web site: Lok Sabha elections: DMK allocates two seats to CPM . The Times of India . 5 March 2019.
6. News: B . Sivakumar . DMK gives one Lok Sabha seat to KMDK . 26 February 2019 . The Times of India . 1 July 2020.
7. Web site: DMK completes seat sharing with alliance partners for Lok Sabha polls 2019 . India Today . 5 March 2019.
8. Web site: AIADMK gives a seat to TMC for LS polls . The Hindu . 14 March 2019.
9. Web site: "Will Sweep Elections": BJP, AIADMK Join Hands For Lok Sabha Polls . 19 February 2019 . NDTV.com.
10. Web site: திமுக கூட்டணிக் கட்சிகளுக்கு கேட்ட தொகுதிகள் கிடைத்ததா?- ஒரு பார்வை . 15 March 2019 . The Indian Express . 21 March 2019.
11. Web site: அதிமுக கூட்டணி கட்சியினர் போட்டியிடும் தொகுதிகள் அறிவிப்பு . . 21 March 2019.
12. Web site: விசிக வேட்பாளர் பட்டியல் வெளியீடு . . 21 March 2019.
13. Web site: ஈரோடு தொகுதியில் போட்டியிடும் மதிமுக வேட்பாளர் அறிவிப்பு . இந்து தமிழ் திசை . 21 March 2019.
14. [Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi|VCK]
15. Web site: DMK front registers thumping victory in Erode . S.P.Saravanan . 23 May 2019 . The Hindu . 23 May 2019.
16. Web site: KMDK candidate to contest on 'Rising Sun' . 19 March 2019 . The Hindu . 19 March 2019.
17. Web site: General Election 2019 – Election Commission of India . results.eci.gov.in . 23 May 2019 . 22 June 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190622121430/http://results.eci.gov.in/pc/en/constituencywise/ConstituencywiseS2219.htm?ac=19 . dead.
18. Web site: Stalin Steers DMK To Success in Lok Sabha Polls . 23 May 2019 . The Hindu . 23 May 2019.
19. Web site: In T.N., VCK adopts 'split' symbol policy . 17 March 2019 . The Hindu . 18 March 2019.

Constituency-wise turnout and quick results

	Constituency	Turnout	Winner	Party		Margin
1	Thiruvallur (SC)	72.33	Dr. Jeyakumar		Indian National Congress	356,955
2	Chennai North	64.26	Kalanidhi Veeraswamy		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	461,518
3	Chennai South	57.07	Thamizhachi Thangapandian			262,223
4	Chennai Central	58.98	Dayanidhi Maran			301,520
5	Sriperumbudur	62.44	T R Baalu			484,732
6	Kancheepuram (SC)	75.31	G. Selvam			286,632
7	Arakkonam	78.65	S. Jagathrakshakan			328,956
8	Vellore	71.46	D. M. Kathir Anand			8,141
9	Krishnagiri	75.95	A. Chellakumar		Indian National Congress	156,765
10	Dharmapuri	82.41	Dr. S. Senthil Kumar		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	70,753
11	Tiruvannamalai	78.15	Annadurai C N			304,187
12	Arani	79.01	Dr. M. K. Vishnu Prasad		Indian National Congress	230,806
13	Villupuram (SC)	78.66	D. Ravikumar		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	128,068
14	Kallakurichi	78.81	Pon. Gautham Sigamani			399,919
15	Salem	77.91	S. R. Parthiban			146,926
16	Namakkal	80.22	A. K. P. Chinraj			265,151
17	Erode	73.11	A. Ganesha Murthi			210,618
18	Tiruppur	73.21	K. Subbarayan		Communist Party of India	93,368
19	Nilgiris (SC)	74.01	A Raja		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	205,823
20	Coimbatore	63.86	P.R. Natarajan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	176,918
21	Pollachi	71.15	K. Shamugasundaram		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	173,359
22	Dindigul	75.29	P. Veluchamy			538,972
23	Karur	79.55	S.Jothimani		Indian National Congress	420,546
24	Tiruchirappalli	69.50	Su. Thirunavukkarasar			459,286
25	Perambalur	79.26	T. R. Paarivendhar		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	403,518
26	Cuddalore	76.49	T.R.V.S. Ramesh			143,983
27	Chidambaram (SC)	77.98	Thol. Thirumavalavan		Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi	3,219
28	Mayiladuthurai	73.93	S. Ramalingam		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	261,314
29	Nagapattinam (SC)	76.93	M. Selvarasu		Communist Party of India	209,349
30	Thanjavur	72.55	S S Palanimanickam		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	368,129
31	Sivaganga	69.90	Karti P Chidambaram		Indian National Congress	332,244
32	Madurai	66.09	S. Venkatesan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	139,395
33	Theni	75.27	P. Ravindhranath		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	76,672
34	Virudhunagar	72.49	Manickam Tagore		Indian National Congress	154,554
35	Ramanathapuram	68.40	Navaskani		Indian Union Muslim League	126,237
36	Thoothukkudi	69.48	Kanimozhi Karunanidhi		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	347,209
37	Tenkasi (SC)	71.43	Dhanush M Kumar			120,286
38	Tirunelveli	67.22	S. Gnanathiraviam			185,457
39	Kanniyakumari	69.83	H. Vasanthakumar		Indian National Congress	259,933

Direction Tamil Nadu result

Northern Tamil Nadu

Sr.no	Seats Won
1.	Thiruvallur (SC)	K. Jeyakumar		Indian National Congress
2.	Chennai North	Kalanidhi Veeraswamy		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
3.	Chennai South	Thamizhachi Thangapandian
4.	Chennai Central	Dayanidhi Maran
5.	Sriperumbudur	T R Baalu
6.	Kancheepuram (SC)	G. Selvam
7.	Arakkonam	S. Jagathrakshakan
8.	Vellore	D. M. Kathir Anand
9.	Tiruvannamalai	Annadurai C N
10.	Kallakurichi	Pon. Gautham Sigamani
11.	Villupuram (SC)	D. Ravikumar		Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi
12	Arani	Dr. M. K. Vishnu Prasad		Indian National Congress

Western Tamil Nadu

Sr.no	Seats Won
1.	Krishnagiri	A. Chellakumar		Indian National Congress
2.	Dharmapuri	Dr. S. Senthil Kumar		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
3.	Salem	S. R. Parthiban
4.	Namakkal	A. K. P. Chinraj
5.	Erode	A. Ganesha Murthi
6.	Tiruppur	K. Subbarayan		Communist Party of India
7.	Coimbatore	P.R. Natarajan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
8.	Nilgiris (SC)	A Raja		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
9.	Karur	S.Jothimani		Indian National Congress
10.	Dindigul	P. Veluchamy		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
11.	Pollachi	K. Shamugasundaram

Southern Tamil Nadu

Sr.no	Seats Won
1.	Madurai	S. Venkatesan		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2.	Sivaganga	Karti P Chidambaram		Indian National Congress
3.	Virudhunagar	Manickam Tagore
4.	Theni	P. Ravindhranath		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
5.	Ramanathapuram	Navaskani		Indian Union Muslim League
6.	Thoothukkudi	Kanimozhi Karunanidhi		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
7.	Tenkasi (SC)	Dhanush M Kumar
8.	Tirunelveli	S. Gnanathiraviam
9.	Kanniyakumari	H. Vasanthakumar		Indian National Congress

Central Tamil Nadu

Sr.no	Seats Won
1.	Tiruchirappalli	Su. Thirunavukkarasar		Indian National Congress
2.	Perambalur	T. R. Paarivendhar		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
3.	Cuddalore	T.R.V.S. Ramesh
4.	Chidambaram (SC)	Thol. Thirumavalavan		Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi
5.	Mayiladuthurai	S. Ramalingam		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
6.	Thanjavur	S S Palanimanickam
7.	Nagapattinam (SC)	M. Selvarasu		Communist Party of India

Assembly segments-wise lead of parties

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2021 election)
	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	138	133
	Indian National Congress	49	18
	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	12	66
	Communist Party of India	12	2
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	12	2
	Indian Union Muslim League	5	0
	Pattali Makkal Katchi	3	5
	Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi	2	4
	Bharatiya Janata Party	1	4
Total		234

See also

• 2019 Indian general election in Puducherry
• Elections in Tamil Nadu

Further reading

• Web site: Tamil Nadu: With 'Brahminical' BJP by its side, AIADMK bets on PMK base to bridge caste gap . 25 February 2019 . The Indian Express . 21 March 2019.