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.
One of the 39 parliamentary constituencies of Tamil Nadu, Kallakurichi belongs to the Viluppuram District. The Kallakurichi Parliamentary constituency (constituency number 14) has a total of 1,106,352 electorates out of which 549,992 are females and 556,360 are males according to Election Commission of India 2009 reports. This constituency came into existence following the Presidential notification of implementation of delimitation of parliamentary constituencies in 2008 and comprises of six segments of which three are in Villupuram district, and the other three are in Salem district which lies in Chola Nadu region. Three of these segments are reserved for the SC category and one is reserved for the ST category. The city of Kallakurichi is the center of administration of the Villupuram Distric and is located 59 km from Villupuram and about 160 km from Chennai. It stands at an elevation of over 130 m and covers a total area of 11.50 sq km. Tamil is the official language.
The city has a population of over 51,000 people with 11% population under the age of 6. About 50% of the population is male and the sex ratio is 981 females for every 1000 males. The average literacy rate of the city is 82%. The urban workforce constitutes about 25% of the population and the leading industries in the area are of seeds, rice mills, sugar mill and other services and the place is nicknamed “Sugarcane City”. The National Highway NH-68 and the State Highways SH-6 and SH-204 pass through the city.
List of winner/current and runner up MPs Kallakurichi Parliamentary Constituency.
The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Kallakurichi 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 Kallakurichi constituency is Shri Kamaraj. K of AIADMK.| Year | PC No. | PC Name | Category | winner/current MP | Gender | Party | Vote | Runner Up MP | Gender | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 14 | Kallakurichi | GEN | Kamaraj. K | M | AIADMK | 533383 | Manimaran. R | M | DMK | 309876 |
| 2009 | 14 | Kallakurichi | GEN | Adhi Sankar,Shri | M | DMK | 363601 | Dhanaraju K | M | PMK | 254993 |
| 1971 | 12 | Kallakurichi | GEN | M. Devekan | M | DMK | 207721 | K. Veerasamy | M | NCO | 185745 |
*PC = Parliamentary Constituency
List of Assembly Constituencies in Kallakurichi Parliamentary Constituency
The table below shows the list of all the Assembly Constituencies that fall in Kallakurichi parliamentary constituency.| Names of Assembly Constituencies | ||
|---|---|---|
| Rishivandiyam | Sankarapuram | Kallakurichi (SC) |
| Gangavalli (SC) | Attur (SC) | Yercaud (ST) |
Last Updated on June 14, 2019