Chennai North Lok Sabha constituency

Chennai North Lok Sabha constituency
Chennai North Lok Sabha constituency
Indian electoral constituency
	Chennai North constituency, post-2008 delimitation
Constituency details
Country	India

Chennai North is one of the three Lok Sabha constituencies in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Formerly it was known as Madras North.

Assembly segments

After delimitation, Chennai North consists of following constituencies

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District
10.	Tiruvottiyur	None	Chennai
11.	Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar	None
12.	Perambur	SC
13.	Kolathur	None
15.	Thiru. Vi. Ka. Nagar	SC
17.	Royapuram	None

Chennai North Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:^[2]
1. Royapuram
2. Kolathur
3. T.V.K.Nagar
4. Perambur (SC)
5. Thiruvottiyur
6. Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar

Year	Winner	Party	Runner-up	Party
1957	S. C. C. Anthony Pillai	IND	T. Chengalvarayan	INC
1962	P. Srinivasan	INC	Abdul Samad	ML
1967	Krishnan Manoharan	DMK	S. C. C. A. Pillai	INC
1971	Krishnan Manoharan	DMK	S. G. Vinayaga Moorthy	NCO
1977	A. V. P. Asaithambi	DMK	K. Manoharan	AIADMK
1980	G. Lakshmanan	DMK	M. S. Abdul Khader	AIADMK
1984	N. V. N. Somu	DMK	G. Lakshmanan	INC
1989	D. Pandian	CPI	N. V. N. Somu	DMK
1991	D. Pandian	CPI	Aladi Aruna	DMK
1996	N. V. N. Somu	DMK	D. Pandian	CPI
1998	C. Kuppusami	DMK	R. T. Sabapathy Mohan	MDMK
1999	C. Kuppusami	DMK	N. Soundararajan	CPM
2004	C. Kuppusami	DMK	M.N. Sukumaran Nambiar	BJP
2009	T. K. S. Elangovan	DMK	D. Pandian	CPI
2014	T. G. Venkatesh Babu	AIADMK	R. Girirajan	DMK
2019	Kalanidhi Veeraswamy^[3]	DMK	Alagaapuram R.Mohanraj	DMDK

2019 Indian general elections : Chennai North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	Kalanithi Veerasamy	5,90,986	61.85	+28.13
	DMDK	Azhagapuram R. Mohanraj	1,29,468	13.55	+4.00
	MNM	A G Mourya	1,03,167	10.80	New
	NTK	Kaaliyammal	60,515	6.33	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	15687	1.64	−0.28
Majority			4,61,518	48.30
Turnout			9,55,545	64.26
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	+28.13

2014 Indian general elections: Chennai North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIADMK	T. G. Venkatesh Babu	4,06,704	44.67	+4.98
	DMK	R. Girirajan	3,07,000	33.72	−8.87
	DMDK	M. Soundarapandian	86,989	9.55	−0.51
	INC	Biju Chacko	24,190	2.66
	CPI(M)	U. Vasuki	23,751	2.61	−37.02
	NOTA	None of the Above	17,472	1.92
Majority			99,704	10.95
Turnout			9,10,114	64.00
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing

2009 Indian general elections: Chennai North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	T. K. S. Elangovan	2,81,055	42.59	−19.66
	CPI	D. Pandian	2,61,902	39.69
	DMDK	V. Yuvaraj	66,375	10.06
	BJP	Tamilisai Soundararajan	23,350	3.54	−20.03
	BSP	J. O. R. Santhashrini	3,952	0.60
Majority			19,153	2.90
Turnout			6,59,889	64.91
	DMK hold		Swing

2004 Indian general election: Madras North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	C. Kuppusami	5,70,122	62.25	+9.55
	BJP	M.N. Sukumaran Nambiar	3,16,583	34.57	n/a
Majority			2,53,539	27.68	+9.81
Turnout			9,15,879	45.77	+1.98
	DMK hold		Swing	+9.55

General Election, 1999:Madras North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	C. Kuppusami	4,71,101	53.57
	CPI(M)	A. Soundara Rajan	3,11,312	35.40	n/a
Turnout			8,79,473	43.79
	DMK hold		Swing

1998 Indian general election: Madras North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%

^ GE 2009 Statistical Report: Constituency Wise Detailed Result Archived 2 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine
^ "List of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Tamil Nadu. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 October 2008. Retrieved 8 October 2008.
^ "General elections to the 17th Lok Sabha, 2019 - List of members elected" (PDF). New Delhi: Election Commission of India. 25 May 2019. p. 26. Retrieved 2 June 2019.