Indian general election, 2009 (Tamil Nadu)

Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 2009

13 May 2009 (5A Phase)

39 seats

	First party	Second party

Leader	M. Karunanidhi	J. Jayalalithaa
Party	DMK	AIADMK
Alliance	UPA	TF
Seats won	27	12
Seat change	1	1
Popular vote	12,929,043	11,544,419
Percentage	42.54%	37.99%
Swing	8.96%	32.09%

2009 Election map (by constituencies)
Green = UPA and Red = Third Front

The Indian general election, 2009 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.

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, ADMK, 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

Election map of seat allotments based on parties contesting under the UPA alliance. Colours are based on the UPA-front table on the left

United Progressive Alliance

No.	Party	Leader	Seats
1.	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	M. Karunanidhi	22
2.	Indian National Congress	K.V. Thangabalu	15
3.	Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi	Thol. Thirumavalavan	2

Third Front

Election map of seat allotments based on parties contesting under the Third Front alliance. Colours are based on the TF-front table on the left

No.	Party	Leader	Seats
1.	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	J.Jayalalithaa	23
2.	Pattali Makkal Katchi	Dr. Ramdoss	6
3.	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Vaiko	4
4.	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	G.Ramakrishnan	3
5.	Communist Party of India	D. Pandian	3

Voting and results

Results by Pre-Poll Alliance

Election map of results based on parties. Colours are based on the results table on the left

**Summary of the 2009 May Lok Sabha election results in the state of Tamil Nadu**
**Sources: Election Commission of India**^[1]
Alliance/Party	Seats won	Change^†	Popular Vote	Vote %	Adj. %^‡
UPA	27	+1	12,929,043	42.5%
DMK	18	+2	7,625,397	25.1%	44.9%
INC	8	-2	4,567,799	15.0%	38.9%
VCK	1	+1	735,847	2.4%	44.2%
TF	12	-1	11,544,419	38.0%
AIADMK	9	+9	6,953,591	22.9%	39.1%
MDMK	1	-3	1,112,908	3.7%	36.5%
CPI	1	-1	864,572	2.8%	39.9%
CPI(M)	1	-1	668,729	2.2%	28.1%
PMK	0	-5	1,944,619	6.4%	39.0%
Others	0	–	6,135,920	20.2%
DMDK	0	–	3,126,117	10.3%	10.3%
BJP	0	–	711,790	2.3%	5.3%
IND	0	–
Total	39	–	30,390,998	100%	–

†: 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.

List of elected MPs

Source: Election Commission of India^[1]
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	Winner	Party	Margin	Runner-up^a	Party^a
1. Thiruvallur (SC)	P. Venugopal	ADMK	31,673	S. Gayathri	DMK
2. Chennai North	T.K.S. Elangovan	DMK	19,153	D. Pandian	CPI
3. Chennai South	C. Rajendran	ADMK	32,935	R. S. Bharathy	DMK
4. Chennai Central	Dayanidhi Maran*	DMK	33,454	S. M. K. Mogamed Ali Jinnah	ADMK
5. Sriperumbudur	T.R. Baalu*	DMK	25,036	A. K. Moorthy*	PMK
6. Kancheepuram (SC)	P. Viswanathan	INC	13,103	E. Ramakrishnan	ADMK
7. Arakkonam	Jagathrakshakan	DMK	109,796	R. Velu*	PMK
8. Vellore	Abdulrahman	DMK	107,393	L. K. M. B. Vasu	ADMK
9. Krishnagiri	E.G. Sugavanam*	DMK	76,598	K. Nanjegowdu	ADMK
10. Dharmapuri	R. Thamaraiselvan	DMK	135,942	R. Senthil*	PMK
11. Tiruvannamalai	D. Venugopal*	DMK	148,300	J. Gurunathan	PMK
12. Arani	M. Krishnasamy	INC	106,830	N. Subramaniyan	ADMK
13. Viluppuram (SC)	M. Anandan	ADMK	2,797	K. Swamidurai	VCK
14. Kallakurichi	Sankar Adhi	DMK	108,608	K. Dhanaraju*	PMK
15. Salem	S. Semmalai	ADMK	46,491	K. V. Thangkabalu*	INC
16. Namakkal	S. Gandhiselvan	DMK	102,431	V. Vairam Tamilarasi	ADMK
17. Erode	A. Ganeshamurthi	MDMK	49,336	E. V. K. S. Elangovan*	INC
18. Tiruppur	C. Sivasami	ADMK	85,346	S. K. Kharventhan*	INC
19. Nilgiris (SC)	A. Raja*	DMK	86,021	Dr. C. Krishnan*	MDMK
20. Coimbatore	P.R. Natarajan	CPM	38,664	R. Prabhu*	INC
21. Pollachi	K. Sugumar	ADMK	46,025	K. Shanmugasundaram	DMK
22. Dindigul	N.S.V. Chitthan*	INC	54,347	P. Balasubramani	ADMK
23. Karur	M. Tambidurai	ADMK	47,254	K. C. Palanisamy	DMK
24. Tiruchirappalli	P. Kumar	ADMK	4,335	Sarubala R. Thondaiman	INC
25. Perambalur	D. Napoleon	DMK	77,604	K. K. Balasubramanian	ADMK
26. Cuddalore	S. Alagiri	INC	23,532	M. C. Sampath	ADMK
27. Chidambaram (SC)	Thol. Thirumaavalavan	VCK	99,083	E. Ponnuswamy*	PMK
28. Mayiladuturai	O.S. Manian	ADMK	36,854	Mani Shankar Aiyar*	INC
29. Nagapattinam (SC)	A.K.S. Vijayan*	DMK	47,962	M. Selvaraj	CPI
30. Thanjavur	S.S. Palanimanickam*	DMK	101,787	Durai Balakrishnan	MDMK
31. Sivaganga	P. Chidambaram*	INC	3,354	R. S. Raja Kannappan	ADMK
32. Madurai	M.K. Azhagiri	DMK	140,985	P. Mohan*	CPM
33. Theni	J.M. Aaron Rashid*	INC	6,302	Thanga Tamilselvan	ADMK
34. Virudhunagar	Manicka Tagore	INC	15,764	Vaiko	MDMK
35. Ramanathapuram	Sivakumar	DMK	69,915	V. Sathiamoorthy	ADMK
36. Thoothukkudi	S.R. Jeyadurai	DMK	76,649	Dr. Cynthia Pandian	ADMK
37. Tenkasi (SC)	P. Lingam	CPI	34,677	K. Vellaipandi	INC
38. Tirunelveli	S. Ramasubbu	INC	21,303	K. Annamalai	ADMK
39. Kanniyakumari	J. Helen Davidson	DMK	65,687	P. Radhakrishnan	BJP

* – 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

Minister	Party	Lok Sabha Constituency/Rajya Sabha	Portfolios
P. Chidambaram	INC	Sivaganga	Ministry of Finance
Dayanidhi Maran^[2]	DMK	Chennai Central	Minister of Textiles
A. Raja^[1]	DMK	Nilgiris (SC)	Minister of Communications and Information Technology
G K Vasan	INC	Rajya Sabha	Minister of Shipping
M. K. Azhagiri^[3]	DMK	Madurai	Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers

Ministers of State

Minister	Party	Lok Sabha Constituency/Rajya Sabha	Portfolios
V. Narayanasamy	INC	Pondicherry	Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Ministry of Planning
S. S. Palanimanickam^[3]	DMK	Thanjavur	Ministry of Finance
D. Napoleon^[3]	DMK	Perambalur	Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
S. Jagathrakshakan^[3]	DMK	Arakkonam	Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
S. Gandhiselvan^[3]	DMK	Namakkal	Minister of state for Health and Family Welfare

[1] – Due to his involvement with the 2G spectrum financial scam, 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]

References

1 2 "Election Commission of India". Retrieved 2009-10-02.
↑ http://www.hindustantimes.com/Raja-to-submit-resignation-to-PM-over-2G-scam-Report/Article1-626305.aspx DMK blinks, Raja quits – Hindustan Times
↑ http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-07-07/india/29746407_1_aircel-chief-c-sivasankaran-malaysia-based-group-2g 2G scam: Dayanidhi Maran resigns from cabinet, to be quizzed by CBI
↑ J. Balaji (20 March 2013). "DMK Ministers meet PM, resign". The Hindu. Retrieved 20 June 2013.

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