New Delhi:
Tamil Nadu was one of the few states to buck the saffron surge as the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), the ally of Narendra Modi’s BJP, suffered a massive defeat. Stalin’s Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) surged to a resounding win in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections in Tamil Nadu, thus giving the Congress party something to smile. DMK’s stalwarts like Kanimozhi, A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran all registered convincing wins while the AIADMK managed to win only one seat and that was in Theni. The Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore constituency was cancelled following the seizure of at least Rs 12 crore in cash from a DMK leader's associate in raids. The decision comes as monumental amounts of unaccounted wealth have been seized in the state during Lok Sabha election season and bypolls in Tamil Nadu. Here is the complete list of winners and losers from Tamil Nadu in the Lok Sabha 2019 elections.
Constituency | Winner/Leading | Party | Loser/Trailing | Party | Margin |
Arakkonam | S Jagathrakshakan | DMK | AK Moorthy | PMK | 328956 |
Arani | MK Vishnu Prasad | INC | V Elumalai | AIADMK | 230806 |
Chennai Central | Dayanidhi Maran | DMK | SR Sam Paul | PMK | 301520 |
Chennai North | Dr. Kalanidhi Veeraswamy | DMK | Alagaapuram R Mohanraj | DMDK | 461518 |
Chennai South | T Sumathy Thamizhachi Thangapandian | DMK | Dr J Jayavardhan | AIADMK | 262223 |
Chidambaram | Thol Thirumaavalavan | VCK | P Chandrasekar | AIADMK | 3219 |
Coimbatore | PR Natarajan | CPI (M) | CP Radhakrishnan | BJP | 179143 |
Cuddalore | TRVS Ramesh | DMK | Dr R Govindasamy | PMK | 143983 |
Dharmapuri | DNV Senthilkumar | DMK | Anbumani Ramadoss | PMK | 70753 |
Dindigul | P Velusamy | DMK | K Jothimuthu | PMK | 538972 |
Erode | A Ganeshamurthi | DMK | G Manimaran | AIADMK | 210618 |
Kallakurichi | Pon Gautham Sigamani | DMK | KL Sudhish | DMDK | 399919 |
Kancheepuram | G Selvam | DMK | K Maragatham | AIADMK | 286632 |
Kanniyakumari | H Vasanthakumar | DMK | Pon Radhakrishnan | BJP | 259933 |
Karur | S Jothimani | Congress | M Thambidurai | AIADMK | 420546 |
Krishnagiri | Dr. A Chellakumar | Congress | KP Munuswamy | AIADMK | 156765 |
Madurai | S Venkatesan | CPI (M) | VVR Raj Satyen | AIADMK | 139395 |
Mayiladuthurai | S Ramalingam | DMK | S Asaimani | AIADMK | 261314 |
Nagapattinam | M Selvaraj | CPI | M Saravanan | AIADMK | 211353 |
Namakkal | AKP Chinraj | DMK | P Kaliappan | AIADMK | 265151 |
Nilgiris | A Raja | DMK | M Thiyagarajan | AIADMK | 205823 |
Perambalur | Dr TR Paarivendhar | DMK | NR Sivapathy | AIADMK | 403518 |
Pollachi | K Shanmuga Sundaram | DMK | C Mahendran | AIADMK | 175883 |
Ramanathapuram | K Navaskani | IUML | Nainar Nagenthran | BJP | 127122 |
Salem | SR Parthiban | DMK | KRS Saravanan | AIADMK | 146926 |
Sivaganga | Karti Chidambaram | INC | H Raja | BJP | 332244 |
Sriperumbudur | TR Baalu | DMK | A Vaithilingam | PMK | 507955 |
Tenkasi | Dhanush M Kumar | DMK | Dr K Krishnasamy | AIADMK | 120286 |
Thanjavur | SS Palanimanickam | DMK | NR Natarajan | TMC (Moopanar) | 368129 |
Theni | P Raveendranath Kumar | AIADMK | EKVS Elangovan | INC | 76693 |
Thiruvallur | Dr K Jayakumar | INC | Dr P Venugopal | AIADMK | 356955 |
Thoothukkudi | Kanimozhi | DMK | Dr Tamilsai Soundarajan | BJP | 347209 |
Tiruchirappalli | SU Thirunavukkarasar | INC | Dr V Elangovan | DMDK | 459286 |
Tirunelveli | S Gnanathiraviam | DMK | Paul Manoj Pandian | AIADMK | 185457 |
Tiruppur | K Subbarayan | CPI | MSM Anandan | AIADMK | 93368 |
Tiruvannamalai | CN Annadurai | DMK | SS Agri Krishnamurthy | AIADMK | 304187 |
Viluppuram | D Ravikumar | DMK | S Vadivel Ravanan | PMK | 128068 |
Virudhunagar | B Manickam Tagore | INC | S Algarsamy | DMDK | 154554 |
(All the figures are from the official website of the Election Commission of India.)