2009 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu explained

Election Name:Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 2009
Country:India
Type:parliamentary
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 2004
Previous Year:2004
Next Election:Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 2014
Next Year:2014
Election Date:13 May 2009 (5A phase)
Seats For Election:39 seats
Turnout:73.03%
Image1:M._Karunanidhi_.jpg
Leader1:M. Karunanidhi
Party1:Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Alliance1:UPA+DPA
Seats1:27
Seat Change1:1
Popular Vote1:12,926,009
Percentage1:42.53%
Leader2:J. Jayalalithaa
Party2:All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Alliance2:Third Front
Seats2:12
Seat Change2:12
Popular Vote2:11,336,586
Percentage2:37.30%
Image3:File:Vijaykanth at the Sagaptham Audio Launch.jpg
Leader3:Vijayakanth
Party3:Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam
Alliance3:None
Seats3:0
Seat Change3:New
Popular Vote3:3,126,117
Percentage3:10.29%
Swing3:New
Before Party:United Progressive Alliance
After Party:United Progressive Alliance

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

United Progressive Alliance

No.
PartyElection SymbolLeaderSeats
1. 21
2.15
3.2
Unrecognized party, whose candidates ran under the DMK ticket
4.K. M. Kader Mohideen1

Third Front

No.
PartyElection SymbolLeaderSeats
1. 23
2. 6
3. 4
4. Communist Party of India (Marxist)3
5. 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

AlliancePartyalign=centrePopular Votealign=centrePercentagealign=centreSwingalign=centreSeats wonalign=centreSeat Change
United Progressive AllianceDravida Munnetra Kazhagam7,264,92323.90%0.70%171
Indian National Congress4,567,77915.03%0.63%82
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi732,8332.41%new party1new party
Indian Union Muslim League360,4741.19%1
Total12,926,00942.53%3.53%271
AIADMK-led AllianceAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam6,953,59122.88%6.89%99
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam1,112,9083.66%2.29%13
Communist Party of India865,0292.85%0.12%11
Communist Party of India (Marxist)669,0582.20%0.67%11
Pattali Makkal Katchi1,736,0005.71%1.00%05
Total11,336,58637.30%10.97%121
Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam3,126,11710.29%new party0new party
Others3,002,2489.88%2.85%0
Valid Votes30,390,96099.96%
Invalid Votes12,7870.04%
Total Votes30,403,747100.00%
Reigstered Voters/Turnout41,620,46073.05%12.24%

†: 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
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! colspan="3"
WinnerRunner-upMargin
NoConstituencyPartyCandidatePartyCandidate
1Thiruvallur (SC)P. VenugopalS. Gayathri31,673
2Chennai NorthT.K.S. ElangovanD. Pandian19,153
3Chennai SouthC. RajendranR. S. Bharathy32,935
4Chennai CentralDayanidhi MaranS. M. K. Mogamed Ali Jinnah33,454
5SriperumbudurT.R. BaaluA. K. Moorthy25,036
6Kancheepuram (SC)P. ViswanathanE. Ramakrishnan13,103
7ArakkonamJagathrakshakanR. Velu109,796
8VelloreAbdulrahmanL. K. M. B. Vasu107,393
9KrishnagiriE.G. SugavanamK. Nanjegowdu76,598
10DharmapuriR. ThamaraiselvanR. Senthil135,942
11TiruvannamalaiD. VenugopalJ. Gurunathan148,300
12AraniM. KrishnasamyN. Subramaniyan106,830
13Viluppuram (SC)M. AnandanK. Swamidurai2,797
14KallakurichiSankar AdhiK. Dhanaraju108,608
15SalemS. SemmalaiK. V. Thangkabalu46,491
16NamakkalS. GandhiselvanV. Vairam Tamilarasi102,431
17ErodeA. GaneshamurthiE. V. K. S. Elangovan49,336
18TiruppurC. SivasamiS. K. Kharventhan85,346
19Nilgiris (SC)A. RajaDr. C. Krishnan86,021
20CoimbatoreP.R. NatarajanR. Prabhu38,664
21PollachiK. SugumarK. Shanmugasundaram46,025
22DindigulN.S.V. ChitthanP. Balasubramani54,347
23KarurM. TambiduraiK. C. Palanisamy47,254
24TiruchirappalliP. KumarSarubala R. Thondaiman4,335
25PerambalurD. NapoleonK. K. Balasubramanian77,604
26CuddaloreS. AlagiriM. C. Sampath23,532
27Chidambaram (SC)Thol. ThirumaavalavanE. Ponnuswamy99,083
28MayiladuturaiO. S. ManianMani Shankar Aiyar36,854
29Nagapattinam (SC)A.K.S. VijayanM. Selvaraj47,962
30ThanjavurS.S. PalanimanickamDurai Balakrishnan101,787
31SivagangaP. ChidambaramR. S. Raja Kannappan3,354
32MaduraiM.K. AzhagiriP. Mohan140,985
33TheniJ.M. Aaron RashidThanga Tamilselvan6,302
34VirudhunagarManicka TagoreVaiko15,764
35RamanathapuramSivakumarV. Sathiamoorthy69,915
36ThoothukkudiS.R. JeyaduraiDr. Cynthia Pandian76,649
37Tenkasi (SC)P. LingamK. Vellaipandi34,677
38TirunelveliS. RamasubbuK. Annamalai21,303
39KanniyakumariJ. Helen DavidsonP. Radhakrishnan65,687

* – 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

MinisterPartyLok Sabha Constituency/Rajya SabhaPortfolios
P. ChidambaramINCSivagangaMinistry of Home
Dayanidhi Maran[2]DMKChennai CentralMinister of Textiles
A. Raja[1]DMKNilgiris (SC)Minister of Communications and Information Technology
M. K. Azhagiri[3]DMKMaduraiMinister of Chemicals and Fertilizers

Ministers of State

MinisterPartyLok Sabha Constituency/Rajya SabhaPortfolios
S. S. Palanimanickam[3]DMKThanjavurMinistry of Finance
D. Napoleon[3]DMKPerambalurMinistry of Social Justice and Empowerment
S. Jagathrakshakan[3]DMKArakkonamMinistry of Information and Broadcasting
S. Gandhiselvan[3]DMKNamakkalMinister 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. Web site: Election Commission of India. 2009-10-02.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20101205013200/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Raja-to-submit-resignation-to-PM-over-2G-scam-Report/Article1-626305.aspx Hindustan Times
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20120906152934/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-07-07/india/29746407_1_aircel-chief-c-sivasankaran-malaysia-based-group-2g
  4. Web site: J. Balaji . DMK Ministers meet PM, resign . The Hindu . 20 March 2013 . 20 June 2013.

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