Lok Sabha Polls 2024 Results Live: Tamil Nadu, the citadel of Dravidian politics, remains a tricky maze for BJP to date. Despite the "Modi wave", the NDA has struggled to make sizeable electoral dividents from the southern state. However, under party chief K Annamalai's leadership, the BJP has slowly managed to establish itself as a thrid player in political landscape of Tamil Nadu that has conventionally been a duopoly, orbiting the time-tested DMK-AIADMK rivalry.
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BJP-led NDA's push for "400 baar" depends a lot on its performance in the southern states. The saffron camp, in order to achieve the goal, not just got to sweep Karnataka but also needs to better their tally in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. It is no easy task as under chief minister MK Stalin's leadership, the DMK and its I.N.D.I.A partner forms a formidable opposition. The Congress is fighting from nine seats along with the neighbouring Puducherry, while the Left parties (CPI, CPM) and VCK are contesting two seats each. MDMK and IUML are also in the fray for I.N.D.I. Alliance while CM Stalin's sister Kanimozhi is seeking a mandate from Thoothukudi once again.
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Historically, the BJP has won only one seat from Tamil Nadu in the past two general elections. It was Pon Radhakrishnan who emerged victorious from Kanniyakumari in 2014.
In the 2019 general elections, the BJP managed to form an alliance with the mighty AIADMK. However, Stalin's wagon thumped the NDA to bag 38 of the state's 39 seats. P Ravindhranath, son of former TN chief minister O Panneerselvam, was the only AIADMK candidate to reach Parliament from the state following his victory from Theni constituency. The BJP, which was allotted five seats by the Dravidian major, failed to open its account.
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Ahead of the 2024 general elections, the AIADMK-BJP alliance split, Annamalai decided to field candidates in 23 seats while allotting the rest to alliance partners. S Ramadoss' Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) remains in the NDA fold and is among the 10 parties fighting in Tamil Nadu for the alliance at power at the Centre. PMK is contesting from 10 seats -- three more than their 2019 tally. K Annamalai is contesting the polls from the Coimbatore Lok Sabha constituency. He is up against DMK's Ganapathy Rajkumar and AIADMK's Singai Ramachandran. In 2019, CPI(M)'s PR Natarajan defeated BJP's CP Radhakrishnan, who is the current Jharkhand Governor by a margin of 1,79,143 votes.
What did Exit Polls say about Tamil Nadu Lok Sabha results:
According to the data released by India TV-CNX, the BJP and Co. may get five to seven seats in Tamil Nadu. The India Today-Axis My India exit poll predicted two to four seats for the saffron camp while four other exit polls also predicted the NDA winning at least one seat.
Tamil Nadu Lok Sabha Polls 2024 results: Here is the constituency-wise list of winners from the state, along with their victory margin. The table will updated as soon as the results are officially declared by the Election Commission of India (ECI):
Seat No.
Constituency
Winner
Party
Margin
1
Tiruvallur (SC)
2
3
4
5
6
Kancheepuram (SC)
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Viluppuram (SC)
14
Kallakurichi
15
Salem
16
Namakkal
17
Erode
18
Tiruppur
19
Nilgiris
20
Coimbatore
21
Pollachi
22
Dindigul
23
Karur
24
Tiruchirappalli
25
Perambalur
26
Cuddalore
27
Chidambaram
28
Mayiladuthurai
29
Nagapattinam
30
Thanjavur
31
Sivaganga
32
Madurai
33
Theni
34
Virudhunagar
35
Ramanathapuram
36
Thoothukudi
37
Tenkasi
38
Tirunelveli
39
Kanyakumari
(With inputs from Keerthana Menon)
