Tenkasi Parliamentary Constituency Election and Results Update

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One of the 39 parliamentary constituencies of Tamil Nadu, Tenkasi Lok Sabha Constituency represents the Tirunelveli District and has 1,063,614 voters. 1,063,614 is the total electorate count in the Tenkasi Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 37). Out of these 530,196 number of electorates are males and the remaining 533,418 are belong to the female category as the Election commission of India 2009 reports suggest. This constituency came into existence in 1957 and comprises of six legislative assembly segments and is reserved for the SC category. The town of Tenkasi is situated near the Coutallam Waterfalls, at the foothills of the Western Ghats. It has an average elevation of 143 m and is bordered by Kerala on its West. Tamil and English are the official languages here.

As per 2001 census, it has a population of over 63,000 people of which 7,242 are under the age of 6. About 51% of the population is male and the sex ratio is 982 females for every 1000 males. The average literacy rate of the city is 83%. About 15% of the population belongs to the SC category and 0.90% belongs to the ST category. Agriculture, tourism, oil refining, handloom and several other small scale industries are a part of the economic setup of the city. Several State Highways are connected to the city and place it in a large road network. Additionally, the National Highway NH-7 passes through the district connecting to the major cities in and around the city.

Tenkasi 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 Tenkasi Parliamentary Constituency.

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Tenkasi 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 Tenkasi constituency is Vasanthi.M of AIADMK.

Year	PC No.	PC Name	Category	winner/current MP	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up MP	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	37	Tenkasi	(SC)	Vasanthi.M	F	AIADMK	424586	Dr.Krishnasamy.K.	M	PT	262812
2009	37	Tenkasi	(SC)	P. Lingam	M	CPI	281174	Vellaipandi G	M	INC	246497
2004	37	Tenkasi	(SC)	Appadurai, M.	M	CPI	348000	Murugesan. S	M	ADMK	225824
1999	37	Tenkasi	(SC)	Murugesan,S.	M	ADMK	239241	Arumugam,S.	M	BJP	238354
1998	37	Tenkasi	(SC)	Murugesan,S.	M	ADMK	270053	Arunachalam.M	M	TMC(M)	172786
1996	37	Tenkasi	(SC)	Arunachalam, M.	M	TMC(M)	290663	Selvaraj V.	M	INC	194737
1991	37	Tenkasi	(SC)	Arunachalam M.	M	INC	381721	Sadhan Thirumalaikumar T.	M	DMK	199635
1989	37	Tenkasi	(SC)	M.Arunachalam	M	INC	393075	R.Krishan	M	CPM	220368
1984	37	Tenkasi	(SC)	M. Arunachalam	M	INC	360517	R. Krishnan	M	CPM	168950
1980	37	Tenkasi	(SC)	Arunachalam M.	M	INC(I)	272260	Rajagopalan S.	M	JNP	163944
1977	37	Tenkasi	(SC)	Arunachalam M.	M	INC	305069	Rajagopalan S.	M	DMK	118193
1971	37	Tenkasi	(SC)	A. M. Cnellachami	M	INC	223182	R. S. Arumugam	M	NCO	154272
1967	37	Tenkasi	(SC)	R. S. Arumugam	M	INC	166737	Velu	M	SWA	160991
1962	39	Tenkasi	GEN	M. P. Swamy	M	INC	165169	S. A. Muruganandam	M	CPI	93729
1957	26	Tenkasi	GEN	M. Sankarapandian	M	INC	125821	N. Shanmugam	M	CPI	121021

*PC = Parliamentary Constituency

List of Assembly Constituencies in Tenkasi Parliamentary Constituency

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

Names of Assembly Constituencies
Rajapalayam	Srivilliputhur (SC)	Sankarankovil (SC)
Vasudevanallur (SC)	Kadayanallur	Tenkasi