Chennai North Parliamentary Constituency Election and Results Update

One of the 39 parliamentary constituencies of Tamil Nadu, Chennai North is one of the three Lok Sabha constituencies of Chennai. 1,016,663 is the total electorate count in the Chennai North Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 2). Out of these 510,120 number of electorates are males and the remaining 506,543 are belong to the female category as the Election commission of India 2009 reports suggest. It was formed before the 1957 elections and comprises of six legislative assembly segments of which one is reserved for the SC category. It was earlier known as Madras North and has a total number of 1,016,663 voters. Chennai is the capital of Tamil Nadu and it has a metropolitan area of 1,189 sq km. It lies on the Coromandel Coast along the Bay of Bengal. It is the sixth most densely populated city of the country and is home to over 8,696,000 people. About 4,390,000 males and 4,307,000 females reside here.

It has a population density of 26,702 people per sq km and the sex ratio is 981 females per 1000 males. Children constitute about 12% of the total population and there is an 83.3% Hindu majority here. It is the 31st largest urban settlement of the world. Tamil and English are the most prevalent languages here. The average literacy rate is 90.35% with a male literacy rate of 93.57% and a female literacy rate of 87.08%. NH-4, NH-5, NH-45 and NH-205 are the National Highways passing through the metro.

Chennai North Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

In 2009 Election Results the UPA won around 261 out of 543 seats, and in the second position was NDA with 158 seats, while 23 seats were won by Left parties.

In 2014 Election Results the BJP won 282 seats out of 543 seats. This took the NDA tally to 336 seats out of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. INC could only manage to win 44 seats and stayed in the second position while AIADMK party from Tamil Nadu came third with 37 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.

In 2019, the BJP is set to return to power at the Centre after a sweeping win in the 2019 Lok Sabha election , armed with a bigger mandate than in the 2014 General Election. The party - led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah duo has secured 303 seats in the 17th Lok Sabha. Meanwhile, the Congress, the main Opposition party, managed to increase its vote share from 2014 only by a handful of votes, with a final tally of 52 seats. There will be no Leader of Opposition in the upcoming Lower House for a second consecutive term.

List of winner/current and runner up MPs Chennai North Parliamentary Constituency.

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Chennai North parliamentary constituency of all the years fromthe starting until now . It also shows the number of votes secured by each MP and the name of the political party they belong to. The current sitting member of parliament of the Chennai North constituency is Shri Venkatesh Babu .T.G of AIADMK.

Year	PC No.	PC Name	Category	Winner/Current MP	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up MP	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	2	Chennai North	GEN	Venkatesh Babu .T.G	M	AIADMK	406704	Girirajan .R	M	DMK	307000
2009	2	Chennai North	GEN	T.K.S. Elangovan	M	DMK	281055	Pandian. D	M	CPI	261902
2004	1	Madras North	GEN	Kuppusami. C	M	DMK	570122	Sukumar Nambiar. M N	M	BJP	316583
1999	1	Madras North	GEN	Kuppusamy, C.	M	DMK	471101	Soundara Rajan, A.	M	CPM	311312
1998	1	Madras North	GEN	Kuppusami C	M	DMK	401322	Sabapathy Mohan, R.T.	M	MDMK	332229
1996	1	Madras North	GEN	Somu N.V.N	M	DMK	559048	Pandian.D	M	INC	169431
1991	1	Madras North	GEN	D. Pandian	M	INC	400454	Arunachalam Alias Aladi Aruna	M	DMK	281936
1989	1	Madras North	GEN	D. Pandian	M	INC	445197	N. V. M. Somu	M	DMK	331426
1984	1	Madras North	GEN	N.V.N.Somu	M	DMK	261941	G.Lakshmanan	M	INC	225491
1980	1	Madras North	GEN	Lakshmanan G.	M	DMK	297268	Abdul Khader M.S.	M	ADK	197950
1977	1	Madras North	GEN	Asai Thambi A.V.P.	M	DMK	250852	Manoharan K.	M	ADK	205749
1971	1	Madras North	GEN	K. Manoharan	M	DMK	245401	S. G. Vinayagamoorthy	M	NCO	193807
1967	1	Madras North	GEN	K. Manoharan	M	DMK	227783	S. C. C. A. Pillai	M	INC	166449
1962	1	Madras North	GEN	P. Srinivasan	M	INC	122160	Abdus Samad	M	ML	113311
1957	1	Madras North	GEN	S. C. C. Anthony Pillai	M	IND	86139	T. Chengalvarayan	M	INC	76141

*PC = Parliamentary Constituency

List of Assembly Constituencies in Chennai North Parliamentary Constituency

The table below shows the list of all the Assembly Constituencies that fall in Chennai North parliamentary constituency.

Names of Assembly Constituencies
Thiruvottiyur	Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar	Perambur
Kolathur	Thiru Vi. Ka. Nagar (SC)	Royapuram