The

2014 Indian general election General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha. With 834 million registered voters, they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 ...

polls in

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were held for 39 seats in the state on 24 April 2014. The total voter strength of

is 53,752,682. The voting turnout in the election was 73.67%. The results of the elections were declared on 16 May 2014.

Background

As the term of

15th Lok Sabha Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2009 general election in India. It was dissolved on 18 May 2014 by President Pranab Mukherjee. Indian National Congress-led United Progressive Alliance won 44 more seats than the previou ...

ended in May 2014,

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decided to conduct the election for the next Lok Sabha in April–May 2014.

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) under M. Karunanidhi was part of both (

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 government until it withdrew support on 19 March 2013 over

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

issues. DMK suspended their south zone organisational secretary M. K. Alagiri for violating party discipline and later expelled him from the party in March 2014. In October 2013,

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) formed an alliance with smaller parties and caste groups as alternative to Dravidian parties and named it as Social Democratic Alliance (SDA). SDA announced candidates for 10 seats and started their campaign. Gandhiya Makkal Iyakkam leader Tamilaruvi Manian played a significant role to bring parties into the BJP led

National Democratic Alliance National Democratic Alliance (NDA) () is a Centre-right politics, centre-right to Right-wing politics, right-wing and Conservatism, conservative Indian big tent political alliance led by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It was foun ...

(NDA) as alternative to Congress led UPA. In the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

(INC), shipping minister

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and finance minister

P. Chidambaram Palaniappan Chidambaram (born 16 September 1945), better known as P. Chidambaram, is an Indian politician and lawyer who currently serves as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha. He served as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee ...

were opt out from the election. The election process are carried out by the state election commission headed by Praveen Kumar and for the first time,

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used in the election for 36 hours before polling to prevent cash distribution to bribe voters. As of 23 April, commission seized 390 million (390 million) of money in the state.

Alliances and parties

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

In the beginning of the year, AIADMK general secretary

J. Jayalalithaa Jayaram Jayalalithaa (24 February 1948 – 5 December 2016) was an Indian politician and actress who served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for more than fourteen years over six terms between 1991 and 2016. From 9 February 1989 to 5 December 2 ...

stated that she would campaign and win all 39 seats by allying with

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and

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 ...

. Members of the AIADMK party declared her the prime ministerial candidate, despite rumors that she might support

Narendra Modi Narendra Damodardas Modi (; born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament from ...

. On 24 February 2014, the date of her birthday, she announced candidates for all 39 Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu.

National Democratic Alliance

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The BJP under PM candidate

have formed an alliance with

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 ...

, PMK,

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 ...

, IJK, KMDK and seats were allotted on 20 March 2014.

Democratic Progressive Alliance

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam named its alliance as

Democratic Progressive Alliance Secular Progressive Alliance, formerly known as Democratic Progressive Alliance, is an alliance of Indian political parties formed by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). History The alliance was known as the ''Democratic Progressive Allian ...

. It formed alliance with VCK, MMK, IUML and Puthiya Tamizhagam.

United Progressive Alliance

The INC under the leadership of

Rahul Gandhi Rahul Gandhi ( ; born 19 June 1970) is an Indian politician and a member of the Indian Parliament, representing the constituency of Wayanad, Kerala in the 17th Lok Sabha. A member of the Indian National Congress, he served as the president of ...

stated that they will decide on a PM candidate after the election. They lost their major ally from UPA 1 and 2 administration DMK last year. They decided to contest alone, to all 39 seats in the state.

CPI(M)-CPI

After six rounds of seat-sharing talks with AIADMK for the Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry failed to bear fruit, the

Communist Party of India (Marxist) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist communist List of political parties in India, political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in term ...

and the

Communist Party of India Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925. H ...

opted to make an alliance of their own. On 14 March 2014 the two parties held a joint press conference in

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, declaring that CPI(M) would contest nine seats in Tamil Nadu and CPI would contest eight seats in Tamil Nadu and the Puducherry seat.''The Hindu''.
CPI, CPI(M) to contest 9 seats each in Tamil Nadu
''

Aam Aadmi Party

Aam Aadmi Party The Aam Aadmi Party (; AAP) is a political party in India, as one of the national political parties. The AAP was founded in November 2012 by Arvind Kejriwal and his then-companions following the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, popular ...

announced its candidates for 25 seats.

Opinion poll

List of candidates

Results

Party-wise results

, - ! 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 % , - ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#138808; color:white", , 37 , +28 , 17,983,168 , 44.92%% , - ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:", NDA , 2 , +2 , 7,523,829 , 18.5% , - ,

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! style="background-color:" , , 1 , +1 , 2,222,090 , 5.5% , - , PMK ! style="background-color:" , , 1 , +1 , 1,804,812 , 4.4% , - ,

! style="background-color:" , , 0 , - , 2,079,392 , 5.1% , - ,

! style="background-color:", , 0 , -1 , 1,417,535 , 3.5% , - ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:", DPA , 0 , 0 , 10,887,347 , 26.8% , - , DMK ! style="background-color: ", , 0 , -18 , 9,575,850 , 23.6% , - , VCK ! style="background-color: ", , 0 , -1 , 606,110 , 1.5% , - , PT ! style="background-color:" , , 0 , - , 262,812 , 0.6% , - , MMK ! style="background-color:" , , 0 , - , 236,679 , 0.6% , - ,

IUML The Indian Union Muslim League (abbreviated as the I. U. M. L. or the League) is an Indian political party primarily based in the Indian state of Kerala. It is recognised as a State Party in Kerala by the Election Commission of India. The first ...

! style="background-color:" , , 0 , - , 205,896 , 0.5% , - ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:",

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, 0 , -8 , 1,751,123 , 4.3% , - ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color: color:white", Others , 0 , , , , - ,

! style="background-color: " , , 0 , -1 , 220,614 , 0.5% , - ,

! style="background-color:" , , 0 , -1 , 219,866 , 0.5% , - , AAP ! style="background-color: ", , 0 , - , 203,175 , 0.5% , - , BSP ! style="background-color:" , , 0 , - , 155,964 , 0.4% , - ,

IND Ind or IND may refer to: General * Independent (politician), a politician not affiliated to any political party * Independent station, used within television program listings and the television industry for a station that is not affiliated with ...

! style="background-color:", , 0 , - , 866,509 , 2.1% , - ,

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! style="background-color:" , , 0 , - , 582062 , 1.4% , - , style="text-align:center;" , Total ! style="background-color: " , , 39 , , , 100% , - Note: IJK, KMDK and PNK were contested under the BJP symbol.

Constituency-wise results

Constituency-wise results:

References

External links

Official Website of Election Commission of India

Election statistics provided by ECI
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