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Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, 2016
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All 234 seats in the Legislature of Tamil Nadu
118 seats needed for a majority
Incumbent Chief Minister

J Jayalalithaa
AIADMK



A legislative assembly election will be held on 16 May 2016 for the 234 seats of the Legislative Assembly in the state of Tamil Nadu in India.[1] In the previous election in 2011, the AIADMK, under the leadership of Jayalalithaa, won a majority and formed the government.[2]

Background

The tenure of fourteenth Assembly of Tamil Nadu ends in 22 May 2016.[3] There are over 5.79 crore voters in the electoral rolls and 65,616 polling stations in Tamil Nadu.[4]

A special purification drive of electoral rolls between 15 and 29 February 2016 in all poll-bound States including Tamil Nadu would be held, in which door-to-door verification would be undertaken involving booth-level agents.

On 12 February 2016, Election Commission of India announced that 17 assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu will have Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines attached along with EVMs.[5] Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines will be in place in 4,000 booths.[6]

Assembly constituencies of Tamil Nadu having VVPAT facility with EVMs[7][8]
Anna Nagar Vellore Krishnagiri
Salem North Erode West Tirupur (North)
Coimbatore North Dindigul Tiruchirappalli West
Cuddalore Thanjavur Kancheepuram
Villupuram Madurai East Thoothukudi
Tirunulveli Kanyakumari
Tamil Nadu

Demographics

At the 2011 India census, Tamil Nadu had a population of 7,21,47,030. A total of 1,44,38,445 people constituting 20.01 % of the total population belonged to Scheduled Castes (SC) and 7,94,697 people constituting 1.10 % of the population belonged to Scheduled tribes (ST).[9][10][11] Other Backward Classes (OBCs) form 68% of the population.[12] As per the religious census of 2011, Tamil Nadu had 87.6% Hindus, 5.9% Muslims, 6.1% Christians, 0.1% Jains and 0.3% following other religions or no religion.[13]

Issues

Liquor & TASMAC

Liquor Prohibition & TASMAC Closures issue plays important roll in this election.

Candidates

On 4 April, AIADMK released its candidate list for TamilNadu.[14]

On 14 April, DMK released its candidate list for TamilNadu.[15]


Parties and Alliances

Alliances

AIADMK Alliance

DMK Alliance[16]

DMDK - PWF - TMC Alliance[17]

Non-aligned

Other minor coalitions include the Puthiya Sakthi Front.[18]


Controversies

DMK Candidates' dissatisfaction

After DMK announced candidates for the constituencies for the election, protests against candidates broke out in multiple places. It was alleged that DMK gave seats to people close to Karunanidhi and Stalin's family and not to the real cadres who work for the party at the grassroots level.[19]

PWF's Vaiko's Comments on Karunanidhi

Reacting to the controversy surrounding expelled DMDK strongman Chandrakumar and 9 other dissidents, on Wednesday, April 6, 2016, Vaiko suggested indirectly that they should all consider "that business".

Referring to the statement by these dissidents that the DMDK should align with DMK rather than the PWF, he alleged that they had received a bribe from the DMK and suggested that Karunanidhi take up the 'oldest profession' in the world as well. However, he apologised for his remarks about Karunanidhi and requested the DMK leader to forgive him.[20]

Deaths in AIADMK Poll Meetings

Tamilnadu is facing record heat in the summer of April-May 2016. AIADMK poll meetings are held during midday and cadres are travelling from far away places to the venue of the meeting presided over by Jayalalithaa. There are atleast 4 deaths reported due to various reasons including while travelling to the venue or in the venue due to heatwaves. Some political parties have reported this to the State Election Commission. [21]

Election Commission

To ensure that the electorate exercise their right to vote, the Election Commission of India launched their own campaign in Tamil Nadu. The Chief Electoral Officer for the Tamil Nadu assembly elections, Rajesh Lakhoni, utilised social media platforms by creating memes and tweets themed around films, which have a huge reach in Tamil Nadu. Additionally, the Election Commission also recruited media personalities Suriya, Ravichandran Ashwin and Dinesh Karthik, whose campaigning videos were filmed and shared on social media.[22] The Election Commission also partnered with Twitter, for the first time in India, to boost its #TN100Percent hashtag campaign. Twitter users who have made use of the hashtag will be reminded to vote on the day of voting.[23]

Twitter will collaborate with Election Commission of India in its awareness campaign on striving for 100 per cent voting for the May 16 Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu [24]

Election Commission partners with Facebook for Tamil Nadu polls. "Chief Electoral Officer Rajesh Lakhoni and Director of Public Policy (India, South and Central Asia), Facebook, Ankhi Das in a joint press conference announced the partnership. Lakhoni said this was part of the Commission's 'Tamil Nadu 100 per cent' (100 per cent in registration, voting and honesty-ethical voting) initiative for the May 16 polls" [25]

Manifestos

DMK released its election manifesto on 10/04/2016.[26]


Schedule

Tamil Nadu Assembly elections will be held on 16 May 2016. Counting of votes will take place on 19 May.[27] Voting for all 234 Assembly Constituencies will take place in one single phase i.e on 16th May 2016 along with Kerala and Puducherry on the same day.[28]

Poll Event Dates (All 234 ACs)
Date starts for Nominations 22 Apr 2016
Last Date for filing Nominations 29 Apr 2016
Date for scrutiny of nominations 30 Apr 2016
Last date for withdrawal of candidatures 2 May 2016
Date of poll 16 May 2016
Date of counting 19 May 2016
Date before which the election shall be completed 21 May 2016
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Opinion polls

Agency Date AIADMK+ DMK+ Others Ref.
Krishna Survey media 25 April 2016 156 seats 51.70% 34 seats 22% 44 seats 27.30% [29]
Loyola College 1 Feb 2016 156 seats 67.40% 76 seats 32.60% - seats -% [30]
India TV - CVoter 5 March 2016 116 seats 41.1% 101 seats 39.5% 17 seats 19.5% [31]
Times Now - CVoter 1 April 2016 130 seats 39% 70 seats 32% 38 seats 29% [32]
News Nation 1 April 2016 103-107 seats 30% 107-111 seats 33% 14-18 seats 37% [33]

See also

References

  1. ^ "4 States, Puducherry to go to polls between April 4 and May 16". The Hindu. 4 March 2016.
  2. ^ R Jagannathan (30 December 2014). "Can BJP give Tamil Nadu's Dravidian parties a jolt in 2016? Possibly". Firstpost.
  3. ^ "List of States' Government Tenure and Tentative Date of Next Elections in India". Elections.in. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  4. ^ "Over 5.79 crore voters in Tamil Nadu". Business Standard. 4 March 2016.
  5. ^ http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/kancheepuram-voters-to-have-vvpat-facility/article8319361.ece
  6. ^ "Voter Paper Audit at 4K Booths for Polls". The New Indian Express. 30 January 2016.
  7. ^ "EC to tighten grip on cash for votes". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  8. ^ "20,000 personnel to be deployed for election". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  9. ^ "SC/ST population in Tamilnadu 2011" (PDF).
  10. ^ "Half of India's Dalit population lives in India's 4 states- Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar and Tamil Nadu".
  11. ^ "Dalit consolidation in state". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  12. ^ "OBC community in focus before Tamil Nadu assembly polls".
  13. ^ "Population By Religious Community - Tamil Nadu" (XLS). Office of The Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  14. ^ Infoelections.com http://infoelections.com/infoelection/index.php/tn/6314-tamil-nadu-aiadmk-candidate-list.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. ^ Infoelections.com http://infoelections.com/infoelection/index.php/tn/6315-tamil-nadu-dmk-candidate-list.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. ^ "Tamil Nadu election: Congress, DMK form alliance to fight Jayalalithaa's AIADMK". ibtimes. 13 February 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  17. ^ "Why was PWF renamed 'Vijayakanth Ani'? Premalatha answers". The News Minutes. 17 April 2016.
  18. ^ Christin Mathew Philip (17 March 2016). "Tamil Nadu election: Puthiya Sakthi Front releases first list of candidates". The Times of India.
  19. ^ http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/protest-against-dmk-candidate-continues/article8507524.ece
  20. ^ "Tamil Nadu polls: Vaiko apologises to Karunanidhi after casteist comments". DNA. 16 April 2016.
  21. ^ http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/two-aiadmk-cadre-die/article8501389.ece
  22. ^ Sreedhar Pillai (11 March 2016). "Suriya, R Ashwin, Dinesh Karthik create awareness for upcoming Tamil Nadu elections". Firstpost.
  23. ^ "EC tags Twitter for #TN100percent drive". The Hindu. 16 March 2016.
  24. ^ http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2016-03-15/news/71543021_1_awareness-campaign-twitter-india-tamil-nadu-ceo
  25. ^ http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/after-twitter-election-commission-now-partners-with-facebook-for-tamil-nadu-polls/articleshow/51784795.cms
  26. ^ http://www.thehindu.com/elections/tamilnadu2016/tamil-nadu-assembly-elections-highlights-of-dmk-manifesto/article8458137.ece
  27. ^ "Assembly elections on 16 May 2016". seythigal.com. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  28. ^ http://infoelections.com/infoelection/index.php/tn/6311-tamil-nadu-assembly-election-schedule.html
  29. ^ http://www.krishnasmedia.in/article/324654-media-Krishna-opinion-poll-will-jayalalithaas-will-continues-in-regime-tamil-nadu.html
  30. ^ http://infoelections.com/infoelection/index.php/tn/159-tamilnaduopinionpoll.html
  31. ^ http://www.indiatvnews.com/politics/national/india-tv-cvoter-poll-35347.html
  32. ^ "Tamil Nadu election: Opinion poll shows victory for Jayalalithaa, no DMK sting this time". The Times of India. 1 April 2016.
  33. ^ http://www.newsnation.in/article/124183-news-nation-opinion-poll-will-jayalalithaas-magic-work-in-tamil-nadu.html

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