The

2004 Indian general election General elections were held in India in four phases between 20 April and 10 May 2004. Over 670 million people were eligible to vote, electing 543 members of the 14th Lok Sabha. Seven states also held assembly elections to elect state governm ...

polls in

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were held for 39 seats in the state. The result was a victory for the Democratic Progressive Alliance, which included the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and its allies the Left Front which won all 39 seats in the state. DMK and its allies were also able to hold on to

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, which has 1 seat, which allowed the UPA to win all 40 seats in Tamil Nadu and

. The 2 larger partners Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) (16) and Indian National Congress (INC) (10) won the majority of seats, with the junior partners Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) (5) and Marumaralarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) (4) winning the rest. The remaining 4 seats were won by the Left Front parties. Due to the support of the Left Front for the government at the centre, all 39 seats in Tamil Nadu, supported the formation of the UPA-led government. The DPA was formed, because DMK, PMK and MDMK, left the NDA mostly on the

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issue and created an alliance that supported the UPA. The NDA paid a price for it, when their BJP-AIADMK alliance couldn't even win a seat in this state.

Seat allotments

Democratic Progressive Alliance

National Democratic Alliance

People's alliance

Fourth front

Voting and results

Results by Pre-Poll Alliance

2004 tamil nadu lok sabha election map by parties

, - ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan=2 , Alliance/Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , Seats won ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , Change^† ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , Popular Vote ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , Vote % ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , Adj. %^‡ , - ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#009900; color:white", UPA , 39 , +15 , 16,483,390 , colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;", 57.4% , - , DMK ! style="background-color: #FF0000" , , 16 , +4 , 7,064,393 , 24.6% , 58.2% , - ,

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! style="background-color: #00FFFF" , , 10 , +8 , 4,134,255 , 14.4% , 59.2% , - , PMK ! style="background-color: #800080" , , 5 , – , 1,927,367 , 6.7% , 51.7% , - ,

MDMK The Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ( 'Renaissance Dravidian Progressive Federation') is a political party active in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. It was established by Vaiko in 1994 after he left the Dravida Munnetra K ...

! style="background-color: #FF00FF" , , 4 , – , 1,679,870 , 5.9% , 58.2% , - ,

CPI(M) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxist–Leninist communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in terms of membership and electoral seats and one of the nati ...

! style="background-color: #000080" , , 2 , +1 , 824,524 , 2.9% , 58.3% , - ,

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! style="background-color: #0000FF" , , 2 , +2 , 852,981 , 3.0% , 51.8% , - ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#FF9933; color:white", NDA , 0 , -15 , 10,002,913 , colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;", 34.8% , - ,

AIADMK The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; AIADMK) is an Indian Regionalism (politics), regional political party with great influence in the Federated state, state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry (union territory) ...

! style="background-color: " , , 0 , -10 , 8,547,014 , 29.8% , 35.6% , - ,

BJP The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

! style="background-color: " , , 0 , -5 , 1,455,899 , 5.1% , 31.0% , - ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:gray; color:white", Others , 0 , – , 2,228,212 , colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;", 7.8% , - ,

JD(U) Janata Dal (United) ("People’s Party (United)”) abbreviated as JD(U) is an Indian political party with political presence mainly in eastern and north-eastern India. JD(U) is recognised as a state party in the states of Bihar , Arunachal Pr ...

! style="background-color: " , , 0 , – , 884,293 , 3.1% , 9.8% , - ,

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! style="background-color: " , , 0 , – , 947,938 , 3.3% , , - , style="text-align:center;" , Total ! style="background-color: " , , 39 , – , 28,714,515 , 100% , style="text-align:center;" , – , - †: Seat change represents seats won in terms of the current alliances, which is considerably different from the last election. Also the seat change for BJP, includes the merged party MADMK, who won 1 seat in 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

1999 vs. 2004 Alliance

* Note: UPA was not in existence in 1999, instead the number of seats won in 1999, represents the seats won by

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and its allies. * Note: INC affiliated parties, are parties that did not form an alliance or coalition with Congress party, but instead gave outside support. * Note: Left front, whose parties were allies of DMK in Tamil Nadu, was not part of the UPA, in 2004, instead gave outside support.

List of Elected MPs

Source: NES Election 2004 Analysis

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Tamil Nadu

Source: The Hindu
After the UPA victory in this election, Tamil Nadu was rewarded with 12 berths in Union Council of Ministers, with 6 cabinet berths, which is the most this state has ever received after an election. 7 of the Ministers were from DMK, 2 from PMK, while the rest were from Congress.

Cabinet Ministers

Ministers of State

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20081218010942/http://www.eci.gov.in/StatisticalReports/ElectionStatistics.asp * https://web.archive.org/web/20090304134828/http://www.eci.gov.in/StatisticalReports/LS_2004/Vol_I_LS_2004.pdf * https://web.archive.org/web/20090304123521/http://www.eci.gov.in/StatisticalReports/LS_1999/Vol_I_LS_99.pdf
Website of Election Commission of India

Volume I, 2004 Indian general election, 14th Lok Sabha
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