Chennai South Lok Sabha 2024 Results Live
The principal candidates in the Lok Sabha 2024 elections are the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Tamilisai Soundararajan, the DMK’s Thamizhachi Thangapandian, and the AIADMK’s J Jayavardhan (BJP).
Chennai South, Central, And North Election Results 2024 Live Updates
9: 03 AM: In the initial trends following the commencement of counting at 8 am, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) candidate for the Chennai Central Lok Sabha constituency is ahead of candidates from the BJP and AIADMK.
8: 59 AM: Kalanidhi Veeraswamy, the DMK candidate, emerged victorious from this seat in the 2019 Chennai North Lok Sabha elections.
8: 47 AM: T. Sumathy, representing the DMK, emerged victorious from the seat during the 2019 Chennai South Lok Sabha elections.
8: 22 AM: So stay tuned as we bring you the quickest updates from the vote counting in the Chennai North seat.
8: 17 AM: Typically, the Election Commission of India employs the initial round of counting to tabulate all postal ballots within a constituency. Consequently, the initial trends may take some time to materialize and occasionally may differ from the final outcome. Therefore, stay tuned as we provide you with prompt updates from the vote counting process in the Chennai South constituency.
8: 03 AM: The vote counting process for Chennai has officially commenced at 8 AM.
7: 53 AM: During the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, DMK secured victory in the Chennai North constituency. Kalanidhi Veeraswamy of the party was elected as the Member of Parliament, receiving 590,986 votes. The runner-up was Alagaapuram Mohanraj from DMDK, who garnered 129,468 votes.
7: 30 AM: During the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, DMK secured victory in the Chennai South seat. T. Sumathy of the party won as the Member of Parliament, garnering 564,872 votes. The runner-up was J. Jayavardhan from AIADMK, who received 302,649 votes.
7: 15 AM: In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Dayanidhi Maran from DMK won in Chennai Central with 448,911 votes, while Sam Paul from PMK came in second with 147,391 votes.
6.49 AM: Counting of votes to start from 8 am. Postal ballots are to be counted first and EVMs to be opened around 8.30 am or 8.45 am.
Chennai Central Lok Sabha 2024 Results Live
There are 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu, including the Chennai Central constituency. The state’s one-phase Lok Sabha elections are scheduled for April 19, with the counting deadline falling on June 4.
Dayanidhi Maran of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), backed by its ally the Congress party, and Vinoj P Selvam, state secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), will compete in the Central Chennai constituency. B Parthasarathy is the candidate put forth by late actor Vijayakanth’s Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam party (DMDK), which is running as an ally of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK).
Chennai North Lok Sabha 2024 Results Live
The North Chennai Lok Sabha constituency, which includes Thiruvottiyur, Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar, Perambur, Kolathur, Thiru Vi Ka Nagar, and Royapuram, is a highly populous and industrialized area.
Kolathur is notable because M K Stalin, the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, and the president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) represent it in the state Assembly.
Background Details Of The Seats
The Chennai South Lok Sabha seat is located in Tamil Nadu and consists of six assembly segments: Velachery, Sholinganallur, Mylapore, Saidapet, T Nagar, and Virugambakkam. It also includes portions of the districts of Chennai and Kancheepuram. It is one of the state’s most densely inhabited districts, with around 20 lakh voters living in its urban areas. ‘Sumathy’ Thamizhachi Thangapandian, a member of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), is the constituency’s current MP. She was the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (AIADMK) successor to Dr. J Jayavardhan.
Key leader Dayanidhi Maran is running for office for a fourth time in Central Chennai, a stronghold of the ruling DMK, after defeating Sam Paul of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) handily in 2019. Against Paul’s 1,46,813 votes, Maran received an astounding 4,47,150 votes. Dr. R Karthikeyan, an actor-politician who lost his 2019 attempt, is running for reelection with actor-party Naam Tamilar Katchi.
The populace of Chennai North Lok Sabha constituency is mostly concerned with infrastructure enhancements, developmental projects, and periodic flooding. DMK’s Dr. Kalanidhi Veeraswamy is seeking re-election; in 2019, he won the seat by beating AIADMK’s TG Venkatesh Babu with a significant vote share of 62 per cent. However, this time, issues like industrial pollution and floods could mar the DMK’s prospects.