Chennai South Parliamentary Constituency Election and Results Update

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One of the 39 parliamentary constituencies of Tamil Nadu, Chennai South Lok Sabha Constituency is one of the three constituencies representing Chennai. According to Election Commission of India 2009 data the total electorates in the Chennai South Parliamentary constituency (constituency number 3) were 1,162,062 of which 577,630 are females and 584,432 are males. It was formed before the 1957 elections and comprises of six legislative assembly segments. It was earlier known as Madras South and has a total number of 1,162,062 electors. The city of Chennai is the capital of Tamil Nadu and it has a total metropolitan area of 1,189 sq km. It is located on the Coromandel Coast along the Bay of Bengal and is the sixth most densely populated city of the country and is home to over 8,696,000 people with about 4,390,000 males and 4,307,000 females residing here.

The area has a population density of 26,702 people per sq km and the sex ratio here is 981 females per 1000 males. Children comprise about 12% of the total population and Hindus have an 83.3% majority here. It is the world’s 31st largest urban settlement. Tamil and English are the widely spoken languages here. The average literacy rate is 90.35% with male literacy rate being 93.57% and female literacy rate being 87.08%. The National Highways of NH-4, NH-5, NH-45 and NH-205 pass through the metro.

Chennai South 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 South Parliamentary Constituency.

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Chennai South 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 South constituency is Dr. J. Jayavardhan of AIADMK.

Year	PC No.	PC Name	Category	Winner/Current MP	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up MP	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	3	Chennai South	GEN	Dr. J.Jayavardhan	M	AIADMK	438404	T.K.S.Elangovan	M	DMK	301779
2009	3	Chennai South	GEN	C. Rajendran	M	AIADMK	308567	Bharathy R.S	M	DMK	275632
2004	3	Madras South	GEN	Baalu, T. R.	M	DMK	564578	Bader Sayeed ( Tmt)	M	ADMK	343838
1999	3	Madras South	GEN	Baalu, T.R.	M	DMK	562221	Dhandayudhapani, V.	M	INC	322037
1998	3	Madras South	GEN	Baalu T.R.	M	DMK	432913	Jana Krishnamurthi, K	M	BJP	412899
1996	3	Madras South	GEN	Baalu T.R	M	DMK	538697	Ganesham.H	M	ADMK	199516
1991	3	Madras South	GEN	R. Sridharan	M	ADK	418493	T.R. Balu	M	DMK	255965
1989	3	Madras South	GEN	Vyjayantimala Bali	F	INC	445864	Arunachalam Alias Aladi Aruna	M	DMK	320020
1984	3	Madras South	GEN	Vyjayanthimala	F	INC	336353	Era Sezhiyan	M	JNP	288336
1980	3	Madras South	GEN	Venkataraman R.	M	INC(I)	328836	Sulochana Sampath E.V.K.	M	ADK	208474
1977	3	Madras South	GEN	Venkataraman R.	M	INC	241033	Murasoli Maran	M	DMK	226204
1971	2	Madras South	GEN	Murasoli Naran	M	DMK	253626	Nara Simhan	M	SWA	233285
1967	2	Madras South	GEN	C. N. Annadurai	M	DMK	248099	K. Gurumurti	M	INC	166121
1967	By Polls	Madras South	GEN	M. Maran	M	DMK	241304	Ramaswamy C.R	M	INC	135596
1962	2	Madras South	GEN	K. Manoharan	M	DMK	151917	C. R. Ramaswamy	M	INC	89771
1957	2	Madras South	GEN	T. T. Krishnamachari	M	INC	81390	P. Balasubramania Mudaliar	M	IND	71284

*PC = Parliamentary Constituency

List of Assembly Constituencies in Chennai South Parliamentary Constituency

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

Names of Assembly Constituencies
Virugambakkam	Saidapet	Thiyagarayanagar
Mylapore	Velachery	Shozhinganallur