1996 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu

Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1996
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39 (of 543) seats in the Lok Sabha
Registered	42,488,022
Turnout	28,438,885 (66.93%) 3.01%
	1996 Election map (by constituencies); Red = United Front (won all the seats)
	Seat wise Result
Prime Minister before election; P. V. Narasimha Rao; INC	Prime Minister after election ; Atal Bihari Vajpayee; BJP

The 1996 Indian general election polls in Tamil Nadu were held for 39 seats in the state. The result was a landslide for the newly formed alliance between Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) and its leader G. K. Moopanar, and the left parties who ended up getting all 39 seats. Post election, the newly formed United Front, ended up getting all the seats from Tamil Nadu, since DMK and TMC joined it, with outside support from Indian National Congress (INC). The results in Tamil Nadu is a reflection of the results nationally, where INC, ended up losing the most seats. This election was seen as redemption for Moopanar and TMC, since they left Congress, on grounds that they formed an alliance with AIADMK, even though J. Jayalalithaa, general secretary of AIADMK, was accused of many corruption charges. This led to a disastrous showing, for AIADMK and Congress in Tamil Nadu, since they lost all 39 seats from the last election, and TMC reaping the benefits by getting the most seats, in this election with 20 seats.

Registered42,488,022

Turnout28,438,885 (66.93%)

3.01%

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Party		Leader	Seats

DMK-led Alliance
	Tamil Maanila Congress	G. K. Moopanar	20
	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	M. Karunanidhi	17
	Communist Party of India	R. Nallakannu	2
Total			39

Party		Leader	Seats

AIADMK-led Alliance
	Indian National Congress	P. V. Narasimha Rao	29
	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	J. Jayalalithaa	10
Total			39

Party		Leader	Seats

MDMK-led Alliance
	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Vaiko	24
	Janata Dal		8
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	N. Sankaraiah	7
Total			39

Party		Leader	Seats

PMK-led Alliance
	Pattali Makkal Katchi	Dr. Ramdoss	15
	All India Indira Congress (Tiwari)	Vazhappady Ramamurthy	12
Total			27

Constituency		DMK+			AIADMK+			MDMK+
#	Name	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate
1	Madras North		DMK	N. V. N. Somu		INC	D. Pandian		CPI(M)	W. R. Varada Rajan
2	Madras Central		DMK	Murasoli Maran		INC	G. K. J. Bharathi		MDMK	Prof. S. Krishnasamy
3	Madras South		DMK	T. R. Baalu		ADMK	H. Ganesham		MDMK	R. Senguttuvan
4	Sriperumbudur (SC)		DMK	T. Nagaratnam		INC	Lata Priyakumar		MDMK	Kavinger Kudiyarasu
5	Chengalpattu		DMK	K. Parasuraman		INC	S. M. Krishnan		MDMK	C. Arumugam
6	Arakkonam		TMC	A. M. Velu		INC	R. Raviram		JD	Jayakaran Joseph
7	Vellore		DMK	P. Shanmugam		INC	B. Akber Pasha		JD	R. Abdul Hakim
8	Tiruppattur		DMK	D. Venugopal		INC	Era. Anbarasu		MDMK	G. Vanagamudi
9	Vandavasi		TMC	L. Balaraman		INC	M. Krishnasamy		MDMK	A. Chinnadurai
10	Tindivanam		DMK	G. Venkatraman		INC	K. Ramamurthy		MDMK	D. Durai
11	Cuddalore		TMC	P. R. S. Venkatesan		INC	V. Santhamurthy		MDMK	R. T. Sabapathy Mohan
12	Chidambaram (SC)		DMK	C. V. Ganesan		INC	P. Vallalperuman		CPI(M)	P. S. Mahalingam
13	Dharmapuri		TMC	P. Theertharaman		INC	M. P. Subramaniam		MDMK	P. Krishnan
14	Krishnagiri		TMC	C. Narasimhan		INC	E. V. K. S. Elangovan		JD	G. A. Vadivelu
15	Rasipuram (SC)		TMC	K. Kandasamy		INC	K. Jayakumar		MDMK	V. Chakravarthi
16	Salem		TMC	R. Devadass		INC	K. V. Thangkabalu		MDMK	B. Mohanraj
17	Tiruchengode		DMK	K. P. Ramalingam		ADMK	A. V. Kumarasamy		MDMK	P. Balakrishnan
18	Nilgiris		TMC	Balasubramaniam		INC	R. Prabhu		JD	C. V. Kandasamy
19	Gobichettipalayam		DMK	V. P. Shanmugasundaram		ADMK	P. G. Narayanan		MDMK	B. Palanisamy
20	Coimbatore		DMK	M. Ramanathan		INC	C. K. Kuppuswamy		CPI(M)	P. R. Natarajan
21	Pollachi (SC)		TMC	V. Kandasamy		ADMK	R. Anna Nambi		JD	K. N. Rajan
22	Palani		TMC	S. K. Kharventhan		ADMK	P. Kumarasamy		MDMK	V. Ponniyin Selvan
23	Dindigul		TMC	N. S. V. Chitthan		ADMK	C. Sreenivasan		MDMK	S. Pasumponpandian
24	Madurai		TMC	A. G. S. Ram Babu		INC	V. K. Boominathan		CPI(M)	P. Mohan
25	Periyakulam		DMK	R. Gnanagurusamy		ADMK	R. Ramasamy		MDMK	N. Eramakrishnan
26	Karur		TMC	K. Natrayan		ADMK	M. Thambidurai		MDMK	T. P. Moorthy
27	Tiruchirappalli		TMC	L. Adaikalaraj		INC	K. Gopal		CPI(M)	T. K. Rangarajan
28	Perambalur (SC)		DMK	A. Raja		INC	P. V. Subramanian		MDMK	S. Durairajan
29	Mayiladuthurai		TMC	P. V. Rajendiran		INC	Mani Shankar Aiyar		MDMK	A. Venkatesan
30	Nagapattinam (SC)		CPI	M. Selvarasu		INC	M. Kannivannan		CPI(M)	V. Thambusamy
31	Thanjavur		DMK	S. S. Palanimanickam		INC	K. Thulasiah Vandayar		JD	A. Thanjai Ramamurthi
32	Pudukkottai		DMK	Tiruchi Siva		INC	V. N. Swaminathan		MDMK	R. Karthikeyan
33	Sivaganga		TMC	P. Chidambaram		INC	M. Gowri Shankaran		MDMK	A. Ganesan
34	Ramanathapuram		TMC	S. P. Udayappan		INC	V. Rajeshwaran		MDMK	R. Baluchamy
35	Sivakasi		CPI	V. Alagirisamy		ADMK	Sanjay Ramasamy		MDMK	Vaiko
36	Tirunelveli		DMK	Sivaprakasam		ADMK	A. R. Rajaselvam		MDMK	Shunmuga Chidambaram
37	Tenkasi (SC)		TMC	M. Arunachalam		INC	V. Selvaraj		CPI(M)	P. Jeyaraj
38	Tiruchendur		TMC	R. Dhanuskodi		INC	S. Justin		JD	Anton Gomez
39	Nagercoil		TMC	N. Dennis		INC	Kumari Ananthan		JD	P. Mohammad Ismail

1996 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu

Seat allotments

United Front

Congress Front

MDMK-CPI(M) Front

PMK-Tiwari Congress Front

List of Candidates

Voting and results

List of Elected MPs

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Tamil Nadu

Cabinet Ministers

Ministers of State

See also

References

External links

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Alliance			Popular Vote	Percentage	Swing	Seats won	Seat Change
	United Front	Tamil Maanila Congress	7,339,982	27.00%	new party	20	new party
		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	6,967,679	25.63%	2.94%	17	17
		Communist Party of India	632,813	2.33%	0.29%	2	2
		Total	14,940,474	54.96%	30.23%	39	39
	AIADMK+	Indian National Congress	4,965,364	18.26%	24.31%	0	28
		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	2,130,286	7.84%	10.26%	0	11
		Total	7,095,650	26.10%	34.57%	0	39
	MDMK+	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1,222,415	4.50%	new party	0	new party
		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	632,813	2.33%	0.29%	0
		Janata Dal	415,287	1.53%	1.38%	0
		Total	2,270,515	8.36%	3.41%	0
	PMK+	All India Indira Congress (Tiwari)	605,565	2.23%	new party	0	new party
		Pattali Makkal Katchi	552,118	2.03%	3.09%	0
		Total	1,157,683	4.26%	0.86%	0
	Independents		815,224	3.00%	1.57%	0
	Other Parties (14 parties)		909,395	3.32%	0.22%	0
Total			27,188,941	100.00%		39
Valid Votes			27,188,941	95.60%
Invalid Votes			1,249,944	4.40%
Total Votes			28,438,885	100.00%
Registered Voters/Turnout			42,488,022	66.93%	3.01%

Minister		Lok Sabha Constituency/Rajya Sabha	Portfolios
Murasoli Maran	DMK	Chennai Central	Minister of Commerce and Industry
G. Venkatraman	DMK	Tindivanam	Minister of Surface Transport
M. Arunachalam	TMC(M)	Tenkasi	Minister of Urban Development (few months) Minister of Labour
P. Chidambaram	TMC(M)	Sivaganga	Minister of Finance

Minister		Lok Sabha Constituency/Rajya Sabha	Portfolios
T.R. Baalu	DMK	Chennai South	Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
R. Dhanuskodi Athithan	TMC(M)	Tiruchendur	Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports
N. V. N. Somu	DMK	Chennai North	Minister of Defence

Constituency		Winner					Runner Up					Margin	%
#	Name	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Margin	%
1	Madras North	N. V. N. Somu		DMK	559,048	66.11	D. Pandian		INC	169,431	20.04	389,617	46.07
2	Madras Central	Murasoli Maran		DMK	403,867	69.02	G. K. J. Bharathi		INC	123,400	21.09	280,467	47.93
3	Madras South	T. R. Baalu		DMK	538,697	61.97	H. Ganesham		ADMK	199,516	22.95	339,181	39.02
4	Sriperumbudur (SC)	T. Nagaratnam		DMK	431,919	57.94	Lata Priyakumar		INC	186,208	24.98	245,711	32.96
5	Chengalpattu	K. Parasuraman		DMK	410,483	58.07	S. M. Krishnan		INC	174,826	24.73	235,657	33.34
6	Arakkonam	A. M. Velu		TMC	425,974	59.05	R. Raviram		INC	161,129	22.34	264,845	36.71
7	Vellore	P. Shanmugam		DMK	391,141	57.52	B. Akber Pasha		INC	180,106	26.49	211,035	31.03
8	Tiruppattur	D. Venugopal		DMK	430,766	61.55	R. Anbarasu		INC	190,502	27.22	240,264	34.33
9	Vandavasi	L. Balaraman		TMC	342,184	50.34	M. Krishnaswamy		INC	168,880	24.84	173,304	25.50
10	Tindivanam	G. Venkatraman		DMK	367,308	53.29	K. Ramamurthee		INC	177,032	25.69	190,276	27.60
11	Cuddalore	P. R. S. Venkatesan		TMC	389,660	56.20	V. Santhamurthy		INC	184,456	26.60	205,204	29.60
12	Chidambaram (SC)	V. Ganesan		DMK	336,164	48.69	R. Elumalai		PMK	159,898	23.16	176,266	25.53
13	Dharmapuri	P. Theertharaman		TMC	297,166	42.65	M. P. Subramaniyam		INC	165,920	23.82	131,246	18.83
14	Krishnagiri	C. Narasimhan		TMC	371,009	55.95	E. V. K. S. Elankovan		INC	176,333	26.59	194,676	29.36
15	Rasipuram (SC)	K. Kandasamy		TMC	408,791	61.76	K. Jayakumar		INC	215,613	32.57	193,178	29.19
16	Salem	R. Devadass		TMC	315,277	47.07	K. V. Thangkabalu		INC	194,392	29.02	120,885	18.05
17	Tiruchengode	K. P. Ramalingam		DMK	471,533	56.64	A. V. Kumarasamy		ADMK	278,345	33.44	193,188	23.20
18	Nilgiris	S. R. Balasubramaniyan		TMC	475,515	62.91	R. Prabhu		INC	194,139	25.68	281,376	37.23
19	Gobichettipalayam	V. P. Shanmugasundaram		DMK	353,982	53.20	P. G. Narayanan		ADMK	211,014	31.71	142,968	21.49
20	Coimbatore	M. Ramanathan		DMK	463,807	56.79	C. K. Kuppuswamy		INC	201,020	24.61	262,787	32.18
21	Pollachi (SC)	V. Kandasamy		TMC	361,743	55.18	R. Anna Nambi		ADMK	222,852	33.99	138,891	21.19
22	Palani	S. K. Kaarvendhan		TMC	405,782	57.43	P. Kumarasamy		ADMK	213,149	30.17	192,633	27.26
23	Dindigul	N. S. V. Chitthan		TMC	444,858	63.97	C. Sreenivaasan		ADMK	176,944	25.45	267,914	38.52
24	Madurai	A. G. S. Ram Babu		TMC	334,055	46.45	Subramanian Swamy		JP	144,249	20.06	189,806	26.39
25	Periyakulam	R. Gnanagurusamy		DMK	326,665	49.09	R. Ramasamy		ADMK	195,328	29.35	131,337	19.74
26	Karur	K. Natrayan		TMC	409,830	56.12	M. Thambidurai		ADMK	241,556	33.08	168,274	23.04
27	Tiruchirappalli	L. Adaikkalraj		TMC	434,149	62.65	K. Gopal		INC	169,441	24.45	264,708	38.20
28	Perambalur (SC)	A. Raja		DMK	399,079	59.19	P. V. Subramanian		INC	184,832	27.41	214,247	31.78
29	Mayiladuthurai	P. V. Rajendiran		TMC	367,778	55.70	Mani Shankar Aiyar		INC	214,234	32.45	153,544	23.25
30	Nagapattinam (SC)	M. Selvarasu		CPI	394,330	56.77	M. Kannivannan		INC	172,984	24.90	221,346	31.87
31	Thanjavur	S. S. Palanimanickam		DMK	390,010	58.80	K. Thulasiah Vandayar		INC	189,582	28.58	200,428	30.22
32	Pudukkottai	N. Siva		DMK	398,209	50.46	V. N. Swaminathan		INC	220,336	27.92	177,873	22.54
33	Sivaganga	P. Chidambaram		TMC	418,774	64.79	M. Gowrishankaran		INC	171,472	26.53	247,302	38.26
34	Ramanathapuram	S. P. Udayappan		TMC	331,249	53.02	V. Rajeshwaran		INC	135,945	21.76	195,304	31.26
35	Sivakasi	V. Alagirisamy		CPI	238,483	30.80	Sanjay Ramasamy		ADMK	214,861	27.75	23,622	3.05
36	Tirunelveli	D. S. A. Sivaprakasam		DMK	295,001	45.53	A. R. Rajaselvam		ADMK	176,721	27.27	118,280	18.26
37	Tenkasi (SC)	M. Arunachalam		TMC	290,663	44.98	V. Selvaraj		INC	194,737	30.14	95,926	14.84
38	Tiruchendur	R. Dhanuskodi Athithan		TMC	317,943	55.57	S. Justin		INC	114,232	19.97	203,711	35.60
39	Nagercoil	N. Dennis		TMC	197,582	35.18	P. Radhakrishnan		BJP	169,885	30.25	27,697	4.93