Election results of Chennai Central Lok Sabha seat
There are a total of 39 Lok Sabha seats in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. If we talk about Chennai Central Lok Sabha seat, it is one of the smallest parliamentary constituencies in the country. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has dominated this seat. There are six assembly seats under Chennai Central parliamentary constituency, which include Villivakkam, Egmore, Harbour, Chepauk Thiruvallikeni, Thousand Lights and Anna Nagar.
last election results
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, DMK’s Dayanidhi Maran won from Chennai Central Lok Sabha seat of Tamil Nadu by 3,01,520 votes. PMK’s S. R. Sam Paul stood second. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, AIADMK’s S. R. Vijay had won over senior DMK leader and former Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran by more than 45 thousand votes. S. R. Vijay was elected MP from this seat for the first time in 2014. Before this, Dayanidhi Maran had been elected MP from the seat twice.
Electoral history of the seat
The Chennai Central seat was earlier known as Madras Central. The Chennai Central seat came into existence before the Lok Sabha elections held in 1977. After this seat came into existence, Lok Sabha elections have been held here 12 times between 1977 and 2019. It is one of the smallest Lok Sabha constituencies in India. Since then, this seat has been won by DMK 8 times, Congress 3 times and for the first time in 2014, an AIADMK candidate has won.
What is the population?
According to the 2011 census, the total population of Chennai Central parliamentary constituency is 16,31,196, which is 100 per cent urban population. Here the Scheduled Caste (SC) population is 17.84 percent and the Scheduled Tribe (ST) population is 0.29 percent.
Who got how many seats in 2019?
Let us tell you that the dates of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections can be announced any time. All political parties are busy in election campaigning. There is a possibility of Lok Sabha elections being held in the month of April-May. Last time in 2019 also elections were held in April-May only. Then BJP got 303 seats and NDA got 353 seats. In this way Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of the country for the second time. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the opposition got a total of 91 seats, out of which Congress got 52 seats.
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