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Chennai South
Chennai South
Lok Sabha Constituency
	Chennai South constituency, post-2008 delimitation
Incumbent	Thamizhachi Thangapandian
Parliamentary Party	DMK
Elected Year	2019 Lok Sabha election
Constituency Details
Established	1957–present
Reservation	None
State	Tamil Nadu
Total Electors	21,83,315
Assembly Constituencies	Virugampakkam; Saidapet; Thiyagarayanagar; Mylapore; Velachery; Shozhinganallur

Latest revision as of 12:34, 11 December 2022

The Lok Sabha constituency Chennai South is one of three constituencies in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was formerly known as Madras South. It was created in 1957 through bifurcation of Madras Lok Sabha constituency. It is one of the most populous parliamentary constituencies in South India.

C. N. Annadurai, the first non-Congress chief minister of Tamil Nadu resigned his seat in 1967 after he was nominated for chief ministership.^{[citation needed]} It was later contested and won by Murasoli Maran.

Assembly segments[edit]

After 2009[edit]

After delimitation, Chennai South consists of following constituencies

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Party
22.	Virugampakkam	None	Chennai	DMK
23.	Saidapet	None	Chennai	DMK
24.	Thiyagarayanagar	None	Chennai	DMK
25.	Mylapore	None	Chennai	DMK
26.	Velachery	None	Chennai	INC
27.	Shozhinganallur	None	Chengalpattu	DMK

Chennai North constituency as laid out by 1971 Delimitation. The boundaries for this constituency lasted until 2004 election, which was then replaced by 2008 Delimitation.

Before 2009[edit]

Chennai South Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:^[2]

Members of the Parliament[edit]

Year	Winner	Party	Runner-up	Party
1957	T. T. Krishnamachari	INC	P. Balasubramania Mudaliar	IND
1962	Nanjil K. Manoharan	DMK	C. R. Ramaswamy	INC
1967	C. N. Annadurai	DMK	K. Gurumurti	INC
1967 (by-election)	Murasoli Maran	DMK	C. R. Ramaswamy	INC
1971	Murasoli Maran	DMK	Narasimhan	SWA
1977	Ramaswamy Venkataraman	INC	Murasoli Maran	DMK
1980	Ramaswamy Venkataraman	INC (I)	E. V. K. Sulochana Sampath	AIADMK
1984	Vyjayanthimala Bali	INC	Era. Sezhiyan	JNP
1989	Vyjayanthimala Bali	INC	Aladi Aruna	DMK
1991	R. Sridharan	AIADMK	T. R. Baalu	DMK
1996	T. R. Baalu	DMK	H. Ganesham	AIADMK
1998	T. R. Baalu	DMK	Jana Krishnamurthy	BJP
1999	T. R. Baalu	DMK	V. Dhandayuthapani	INC
2004	T. R. Baalu	DMK	Bader Sayeed	AIADMK
2009	C. Rajendran	AIADMK	R. S. Bharathy	DMK
2014	J. Jayavardhan	AIADMK	T. K. S. Elangovan	DMK
2019	Thamizhachi Thangapandian^[3]	DMK	J. Jayavardhan	AIADMK

Election results[edit]

2019[edit]

2019 Indian general elections: Chennai South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Thamizhachi Thangapandian	5,64,872	50.17	+22.52
	AIADMK	Dr. J. Jayavardhan	3,02,649	26.88	-13.15
	MNM	R. Rangarajan	1,35,465	12.03	New
	NTK	A.J. Sherine	50,222	4.46	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	16,891	1.50	-0.36
Majority			2,62,223	23.29
Turnout			11,26,341	57.07	+3.37
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	+22.52

2014[edit]

2014 Indian general elections: Chennai South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	Dr. J. Jayavardhan	4,34,540	40.03	-2.35
	DMK	T. K. S. Elangovan	2,98,965	27.65	-10.21
	BJP	La Ganesan	2,58,262	23.79	+17.89
	INC	S. V. Ramani	24,276	2.24	N/A
	AAP	M. Jahir Hussain	17,172	1.59	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	20,229	1.86	N/A
Majority			1,35,575	12.38	+7.86
Turnout			10,85,402	60.44	-2.22
	AIADMK hold		Swing

2009[edit]

2009 Indian general elections: Chennai South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AIADMK	C. Rajendran	3,08,567	42.38
	DMK	R. S. Bharathy	2,75,632	37.86
	DMDK	V. Gopinath	67,291	9.24
	BJP	La Ganesan	42,925	5.90
	IND.	E. Sarath Babu	15,885	2.18
Majority			32,935	4.52
Turnout			7,28,113	62.66
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing

2004[edit]

2004 Indian general elections: Madras South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	T. R. Baalu	5,64,578	60.37	+0.34
	AIADMK	Bader Sayeed	3,43,838	36.77
	BSP	Vasudevan	4,006	0.40
Majority			2,20,740	23.60	-2.04
Turnout			9,35,143	47.96	+2.80
	DMK hold		Swing	+0.34

1999[edit]

1999 Indian general election: Madras South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	T.R.Baalu	5,62,221	60.03
	INC	V. Dhanda Yudhapani	3,22,037	34.39	n/a
	TMC	V. Muktha Srinivasan	38,700	4.10
Majority			2,40,184	25.65
Turnout			9,36,541	45.15
	DMK hold		Swing

References[edit]

http://164.100.24.209/newls/lokaralpha.aspx?lsno=13^{[permanent dead link]}

↑ GE 2009 Statistical Report: Constituency Wise Detailed Result Archived 2 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine
↑ "List of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Tamil Nadu. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 October 2008. Retrieved 8 October 2008.
↑ "General elections to the 17th Lok Sabha, 2019 - List of members elected" (PDF). New Delhi: Election Commission of India. 25 May 2019. p. 26. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

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1952-77	Kumbakonam