The

2009 Indian general election 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and ...

polls in

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India ...

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 The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; DMK) is a political party based in the state of Tamil Nadu where it is currently the ruling party having a comfortable majority without coalition support and the union territory of Puducherry where it is curre ...

(DMK) decided to stay with the

United Progressive Alliance United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is a centre-left political alliance of predominantly left-leaning political parties in India. It was formed after the 2004 general election with support from left-leaning political parties when no single party ...

(UPA), but the

Pattali Makkal Katchi Paattali Makkal Katchi (; PMK) is a political party in Tamil Nadu, India, founded by S. Ramadoss in 1989 for the Vanniyars, a caste in northern Tamil Nadu. It is currently part of the BJP led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). It contests th ...

(PMK),

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

(MDMK (breakaway)), and the left parties decided to ally itself with the

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; AIADMK) is an Indian regional political party with great influence in the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is a Dravidian party founded by the former chief mini ...

(AIADMK) and the newly formed Third Front named

United National Progressive Alliance Third Front in Indian politics refers to various alliances formed by smaller parties at various points of time since 1989 to offer a third option to Indian voters, challenging the Indian National Congress (INC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ...

. After counting on 16 May 2009, the results to everyone surprise, showed the DMK and its allies,

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and

Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (; VCK) formerly known as the Dalit Panthers of India or the Dalit Panthers Iyyakkam (; DPI) is an Indian social movement and political party that seeks to combat caste based discrimination, active in the state o ...

, winning in a landslide victory, securing 27 out of 39 seats. DMK and its allies were also able to hold on to

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, 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

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, ran in the

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, 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

(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 Mani Shankar Aiyar (born 10 April 1941) is an Indian politician and former career civil servant diplomat. He is a member of the Indian National Congress Party. He represented the Mayiladuthurai constituency of Tamil Nadu in the 10th Lok Sabha ...

, who has been in power in Mayiladuturai constituency for 10 years, was defeated and

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, 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, AIADMK, 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

2009 tamil nadu lok sabha election map by upa contesting parties

United Progressive Alliance

Third Front

2009 tamil nadu lok sabha election map by tf contesting parties

Voting and results

Results by Pre-Poll Alliance

2009 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 , 27 , +1 , 12,929,043 , colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;", 42.5% , - , DMK ! style="background-color: #FF0000" , , 18 , +2 , 7,625,397 , 25.1% , 44.9% , - ,

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! style="background-color: #00FFFF" , , 8 , -2 , 4,567,799 , 15.0% , 38.9% , - , VCK ! style="background-color: #FFFF00" , , 1 , +1 , 735,847 , 2.4% , 44.2% , - ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#FF0000; color:white", TF , 12 , -1 , 11,544,419 , colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;", 38.0% , - ,

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: #008000" , , 9 , +9 , 6,953,591 , 22.9% , 39.1% , - ,

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 ...

! style="background-color: #FF00FF" , , 1 , -3 , 1,112,908 , 3.7% , 36.5% , - ,

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! style="background-color: #0000FF" , , 1 , -1 , 864,572 , 2.8% , 39.9% , - ,

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" , , 1 , -1 , 668,729 , 2.2% , 28.1% , - , PMK ! style="background-color: " , , 0 , -5 , 1,944,619 , 6.4% , 39.0% , - ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:gray; color:white", Others , 0 , – , 6,135,920 , colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;", 20.2% , - ,

DMDK The Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (; DMDK) is an Indian regional political party in the state of Tamil Nadu. It is a Dravidian party founded by the former leader of the opposition in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Vijayakant (Captain ...

! style="background-color: " , , 0 , – , 3,126,117 , 10.3% , 10.3% , - ,

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! style="background-color: " , , 0 , – , 711,790 , 2.3% , 5.3% , - ,

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! style="background-color: " , , 0 , – , , , , - , style="text-align:center;" , Total ! style="background-color: " , , 39 , – , 30,390,998 , 100% , style="text-align:center;" , – , - †: 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.
Sources: Election Commission of India

List of elected MPs

Source: Election Commission of India
24 Incumbents (7 ( DMK), 8 (

), 5 ( PMK), 1 (

), 1 (

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) 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. * – 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

Ministers of State

– Due to his involvement with the 2G spectrum allocation case, A. Raja resigned as cabinet minister and MP on 14 November 2010. (See Spectrum Scandal)
– Resigned on 7 July 2011 due to the CBI investigation on his involvement as Telecom minister in 2006.
– Resigned on 20 March 2013 as party withdraw from the government.

References

External links

Official Website of Election Commission of India

Election statistics provided by ECI
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