Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 2009
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39 seats
Turnout73.03%
  First party Second party
 
Leader M. Karunanidhi J. Jayalalithaa
Party DMK AIADMK
Alliance UPA Third Front
Seats won 27 12
Seat change Increase1 Increase12
Popular vote 1,29,29,043 1,15,44,419
Percentage 42.54% 37.99%
Swing Decrease8.96% Increase32.09%
2009 Election map (by constituencies)
Green = UPA and Red = Third Front

The 2009 Indian general election polls in Tamil Nadu was held for 39 seats in the state. There was a radical change in the alliances in this election compared to the last election, reminiscent of the 1999 election in Tamil Nadu. In this election the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) decided to stay with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), but the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK (breakaway)), and the left parties decided to ally itself with the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and the newly formed Third Front named United National Progressive Alliance.

After counting on 16 May 2009, the results to everyone surprise, showed the DMK and its allies, Indian National Congress and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, winning in a landslide victory, securing 27 out of 39 seats. DMK and its allies were also able to hold on to Pondicherry, which has one seat. Many expected, before the election, through opinion polling and voters on the ground, that AIADMK, and its allies, who were formerly with the UPA (PMK, MDMK, Left Front) in 2004, would win in a landslide, but due to the late surge of support for the DMK, and the nationwide support of the UPA government, the DMK and its allies, ended up winning the most seats, and this victory, proved crucial, for Congress to form the government on its own, without the Left Front.

M.K. Azhagiri, son of DMK leader Karunanidhi, ran in the Madurai, and won his debut run in national politics. Out of the 24 incumbents from the 2004 Election, who ran again in this election, only 10 incumbents won, with 7 of the members from the DMK and 3 of the members from the Indian National Congress (INC).

Even though it was a big victory for DMK and allies, Congress fared poorly in the state compared to DMK, where cabinet minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, who has been in power in Mayiladuturai constituency for 10 years, was defeated and P. Chidambaram, who has been in power in Sivaganga constituency, for past 25 years, lost according to the first counting, and won during the recount, barely winning his constituency.

Even though the opposition party failed to get more seats than the DMK and its allies, AIADMK, improved its tally to 9 seats, from winning no seats in 2004. But the opposition allies (PMK, MDMK and Left Parties), significantly lost seats compared to the 2004 election, when they allied with DMK. PMK especially lost all 6 of its seats that it got in the last Lok Sabha, coming out as the biggest loser of this election in Tamil Nadu.

Seat allotments

Election map of seat allotments based on parties contesting under the UPA alliance. Colours are based on the UPA-front table on the left

United Progressive Alliance

No.
 Party Election Symbol Leader Seats
1. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam M. Karunanidhi 21
2. Indian National Congress K. V. Thangkabalu 15
3. Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi Thol. Thirumavalavan 2
4. Indian Union Muslim League IUML Election Symbol K.M.Kadhar Mohideen 1

Third Front

Election map of seat allotments based on parties contesting under the Third Front alliance. Colours are based on the TF-front table on the left
No.
 Party Election Symbol Leader Seats
1. All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam J. Jayalalithaa 23
2. Pattali Makkal Katchi Dr. Ramdoss 6
3. Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Vaiko 4
4. Communist Party of India (Marxist) N. Varadarajan 3
5. Communist Party of India Tha. Pandian 3

Voting and results

See also: Results of the 2009 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu by state assembly constituents

Results by Pre-Poll Alliance

Election map of results based on parties. Colours are based on the results table on the left
Summary of the 2009 May Lok Sabha election results in the state of Tamil Nadu
Alliance/Party Seats won Change† Popular Vote Vote % Adj. %‡
UPA 27 +1 12,929,043 42.5%
DMK 18 +2 7,625,397 25.1% 44.9%
INC 8 -2 4,567,799 15.0% 38.9%
VCK 1 +1 735,847 2.4% 44.2%
TF 12 -1 11,544,419 38.0%
AIADMK 9 +9 6,953,591 22.9% 39.1%
MDMK 1 -3 1,112,908 3.7% 36.5%
CPI 1 -1 864,572 2.8% 39.9%
CPI(M) 1 -1 668,729 2.2% 28.1%
PMK 0 -5 1,944,619 6.4% 39.0%
Others 0 – 6,135,920 20.2%
DMDK 0 – 3,126,117 10.3% 10.3%
BJP 0 – 711,790 2.3% 5.3%
IND 0 –
Total 39 – 30,390,998 100% –

†: Seat change represents seats won in terms of the current alliances, which is considerably different from the last election.
‡: Vote % reflects the percentage of votes the party received compared to the entire electorate that voted in this election. Adjusted (Adj.) Vote %, reflects the % of votes the party received per constituency that they contested.
Sources: Election Commission of India[1]

List of elected MPs

Source: Election Commission of India[1]
24 Incumbents (7 (DMK), 8 (INC), 5 (PMK), 1 (MDMK), 1 (CPM) from the 2004 Lok Sabha election ran in this election, either for the same constituency, or a different constituency. Since the UPA and the Left Front swept the last election, all of the incumbents were either from UPA or Left Front. 15 of them are now currently running for the UPA, while the other 7 candidates, from PMK, MDMK and CPM, are running for the Third Front.

Constituency Turnout % Winner Party Margin Runner-upa Partya
1. Thiruvallur (SC) 70.57 P. Venugopal AIADMK 31,673 S. Gayathri DMK
2. Chennai North 64.91 T.K.S. Elangovan DMK 19,153 D. Pandian CPI
3. Chennai South 62.66 C. Rajendran AIADMK 32,935 R. S. Bharathy DMK
4. Chennai Central 61.03 Dayanidhi Maran* DMK 33,454 S. M. K. Mogamed Ali Jinnah AIADMK
5. Sriperumbudur 66.10 T.R. Baalu* DMK 25,036 A. K. Moorthy* PMK
6. Kancheepuram (SC) 74.22 P. Viswanathan INC 13,103 E. Ramakrishnan AIADMK
7. Arakkonam 77.82 Jagathrakshakan DMK 109,796 R. Velu* PMK
8. Vellore 71.69 Abdulrahman DMK 107,393 L. K. M. B. Vasu AIADMK
9. Krishnagiri 74.16 E.G. Sugavanam* DMK 76,598 K. Nanjegowdu AIADMK
10. Dharmapuri 72.75 R. Thamaraiselvan DMK 135,942 R. Senthil* PMK
11. Tiruvannamalai 79.86 D. Venugopal* DMK 148,300 J. Gurunathan PMK
12. Arani 76.62 M. Krishnasamy INC 106,830 N. Subramaniyan AIADMK
13. Viluppuram (SC) 74.56 M. Anandan AIADMK 2,797 K. Swamidurai VCK
14. Kallakurichi 77.28 Sankar Adhi DMK 108,608 K. Dhanaraju* PMK
15. Salem 76.42 S. Semmalai AIADMK 46,491 K. V. Thangkabalu* INC
16. Namakkal 78.69 S. Gandhiselvan DMK 102,431 V. Vairam Tamilarasi AIADMK
17. Erode 75.98 A. Ganeshamurthi MDMK 49,336 E. V. K. S. Elangovan* INC
18. Tiruppur 74.64 C. Sivasami AIADMK 85,346 S. K. Kharventhan* INC
19. Nilgiris (SC) 70.75 A. Raja* DMK 86,021 Dr. C. Krishnan* MDMK
20. Coimbatore 70.81 P.R. Natarajan CPI(M) 38,664 R. Prabhu* INC
21. Pollachi 75.80 K. Sugumar AIADMK 46,025 K. Shanmugasundaram DMK
22. Dindigul 75.58 N.S.V. Chitthan* INC 54,347 P. Balasubramani AIADMK
23. Karur 81.43 M. Tambidurai AIADMK 47,254 K. C. Palanisamy DMK
24. Tiruchirappalli 67.33 P. Kumar AIADMK 4,335 Sarubala R. Thondaiman INC
25. Perambalur 79.33 D. Napoleon DMK 77,604 K. K. Balasubramanian AIADMK
26. Cuddalore 76.04 S. Alagiri INC 23,532 M. C. Sampath AIADMK
27. Chidambaram (SC) 77.18 Thol. Thirumaavalavan VCK 99,083 E. Ponnuswamy* PMK
28. Mayiladuturai 73.25 O. S. Manian AIADMK 36,854 Mani Shankar Aiyar* INC
29. Nagapattinam (SC) 77.71 A.K.S. Vijayan* DMK 47,962 M. Selvaraj CPI
30. Thanjavur 76.63 S.S. Palanimanickam* DMK 101,787 Durai Balakrishnan MDMK
31. Sivaganga 70.98 P. Chidambaram* INC 3,354 R. S. Raja Kannappan AIADMK
32. Madurai 77.43 M.K. Azhagiri DMK 140,985 P. Mohan* CPI(M)
33. Theni 74.47 J.M. Aaron Rashid* INC 6,302 Thanga Tamilselvan AIADMK
34. Virudhunagar 77.38 Manicka Tagore INC 15,764 Vaiko MDMK
35. Ramanathapuram 68.83 Sivakumar DMK 69,915 V. Sathiamoorthy AIADMK
36. Thoothukkudi 69.13 S.R. Jeyadurai DMK 76,649 Dr. Cynthia Pandian AIADMK
37. Tenkasi (SC) 70.18 P. Lingam CPI 34,677 K. Vellaipandi INC
38. Tirunelveli 66.13 S. Ramasubbu INC 21,303 K. Annamalai AIADMK
39. Kanniyakumari 64.99 J. Helen Davidson DMK 65,687 P. Radhakrishnan BJP


* – represents incumbents in previous Lok Sabha (2004–2009) from Tamil Nadu.
a – Defeated candidate and party represents candidate and party that got the second most votes.


Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Tamil Nadu

Cabinet Ministers

Minister Party Lok Sabha Constituency/Rajya Sabha Portfolios
P. Chidambaram INC Sivaganga Ministry of Home
Dayanidhi Maran[2] DMK Chennai Central Minister of Textiles
A. Raja[1] DMK Nilgiris (SC) Minister of Communications and Information Technology
G K Vasan INC Rajya Sabha Minister of Shipping
M. K. Azhagiri[3] DMK Madurai Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers

Ministers of State

Minister Party Lok Sabha Constituency/Rajya Sabha Portfolios
S. S. Palanimanickam[3] DMK Thanjavur Ministry of Finance
D. Napoleon[3] DMK Perambalur Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
S. Jagathrakshakan[3] DMK Arakkonam Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
S. Gandhiselvan[3] DMK Namakkal Minister of state for Health and Family Welfare

[1] – Due to his involvement with the 2G spectrum allocation case, A. Raja resigned as cabinet minister and MP on 14 November 2010.[2] (See Spectrum Scandal)
[2] – Resigned on 7 July 2011 due to the CBI investigation on his involvement as Telecom minister in 2006.[3]
[3] – Resigned on 20 March 2013 as party withdraw from the government.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Election Commission of India". Retrieved 2 October 2009.
  2. ^ Hindustan Times DMK blinks, Raja quits – Hindustan Times
  3. ^ [1] 2G scam: Dayanidhi Maran resigns from cabinet, to be quizzed by CBI
  4. ^ J. Balaji (20 March 2013). "DMK Ministers meet PM, resign". The Hindu. Retrieved 20 June 2013.

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