Tamil Nadu Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Dates, Schedule, Seats, Total Voters And More

The Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu will take place in a single phase on April 19. The counting of votes will be on June 4. The southern state sends 39 MPs to the Lok Sabha, the fifth most by a state after Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Bihar. Of the 39 seats, 32 are unreserved, and seven are reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates.

The parliamentary elections in Tamil Nadu will witness a three-way fight between the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), its rival All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Led by M.K Stalin, the DMK, which is a part of the I.N.D.I.A alliance will be contesting in 21 seats (22 seats when Namakkal is included, as Kongunadu Makkal Desiya Katchi (KMDK) will contest on the DMK symbol) and its allies in the remaining 18 LS segments in Tamil Nadu.

DMK has given nine Lok Sabha seats to the Congress. The other parties in the alliance are the Communist Party of India - 2 seats, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) - 2 seats, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) - 2 seats, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) - 1 seat and Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) - 1 seat.

The AIADMK will contest in 32 segments and it has allotted seven constituencies to allies, the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK), Puthiya Tamizhagam and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI).

Five seats have been kept for DMDK, while Puthiya Tamizhagam and SDPI (Dindigul) will fight for one seat each.

The BJP will contest from 19 seats, including Coimbatore where the saffron party has fielded its state unit president K Annamalai.

Among the allies, the party has allotted 10 seats to Dr Ramadoss-headed Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK). TTV Dhinakaran's Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) will fight the Lok Sabha polls from two seats. GK Vasan-led Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) has been allotted three seats.

Four smaller outfits have been given one seat each and their nominees will contest on the BJP's Lotus symbol. Former CM O Panneerselvam, who is contesting as an independent candidate has been backed by BJP.

In 39 Parliamentary constituencies in Tamil Nadu, as many as 950 candidates will contest the Lok Sabha polls. Out of 950 candidates, 874 men and 76 women, are in the fray.

Nagapattinam constituency in the Cauvery Delta region has the least candidates - nine and the Karur segment in the western region has the maximum number of candidates - 54.

The Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu will be held on April 19 and votes will be counted on June 4.

1. Thiruvallur

2. Chennai North

3. Chennai South

4. Chennai central

5. Sriperumbudur

6. Kancheepuram

7. Arakkonam

8. Vellore

9. Krishnagiri

10. Dharmapuri

11. Tiruvannamalai

12. Arani

13. Viluppuram

14. Kallakurichi

15. Salem

16. Namakkal

17. Erode

18. Tiruppur

19. Nilgiris

20. Coimbatore

21. Pollachi

22. Dindigul

23. Karur

24. Tiruchirappalli

25. Perambalur

26. Cuddalore

27. Chidambaram

28. Mayiladuthurai

29. Nagapattinam

30. Thanjavur

31. Sivaganga

32. Madurai

33. Theni

34. Virudhunagar

35. Ramanathapuram

36. Thoothukkudi

37. Tenkasi

38. Tirunelveli

39. Kanniyakumari

Tamil Nadu has an electorate strength of 6,18,90,348 with women voters outnumbering men as per the integrated final electoral roll of the special summary revision, 2024.

Of the total electorate, male voters are 3,03,96,330, female voters constitute 3,14,85,724 and the third gender 8,294.

There are 3,480 overseas electors in the final rolls and of them, 71 have been enrolled in this special summary revision period. So far, 4,32,805 Persons with Disabilities (PwD) electors have been flagged in the electoral rolls.

(With PTI inputs)