Chennai Central Parliamentary Constituency Election and Results Update

Chennai Central is one of the 39 parliamentary constituencies of the state of Tamil Nadu and is one of the three constituencies representing the Metropolitan of Chennai. The Chennai Central Parliamentary constituency (constituency number 4) has a total of 1,000,705 electorates out of which 497,333 are females and 503,372 are males according to Election Commission of India 2009 reports. It was formed before the 1977 elections and comprises of six legislative assembly segments one of which is reserved for the SC category. It was earlier known as Madras Central and has 1,000,705 electors. The city of Chennai is the capital of Tamil Nadu and it covers a total metropolitan area of 1,189 sq km. It is situated on the Coromandel Coast along the Bay of Bengal and is the sixth most populated city of the country and is houses over 8,696,000 people of which about 4,390,000 are males and 4,307,000 are females.

The area has a total population density of 26,702 inhabitants per sq km and the sex ratio is 981 females for every 1000 males. Child population comprises of about 12% of the total population and Hindus have an 83.3% majority here. It is the 31st largest urban settlement in the world. Tamil and English are the widely spoken languages here. Chennai has an average literacy rate of 90.35% with male literacy rate being 93.57% and female literacy rate being 87.08%. The National Highways of NH-4, NH-5, NH-45 and NH-205 pass through the metro.

Chennai Central 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 Chennai Central Parliamentary Constituency.

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Chennai Central 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 Chennai Central constituency is S.R. Vijayakumar of AIADMK.

Year	PC No.	PC Name	Category	Winner/Current MP	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up MP	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	4	Chennai Central	GEN	S.R. Vijayakumar	M	AIADMK	333296	Dayanidhi Maran	M	DMK	287455
2009	4	Chennai Central	GEN	Thiru Dayanidhi Maran	M	DMK	285783	Mogamed Ali Jinnah S.M.K	M	ADMK	252329
2004	2	Madras Central	GEN	Dayanidhi Maran	M	DMK	316329	Balaganga N.	M	ADMK	182151
1999	2	Madras Central	GEN	Murasoli Maran	M	DMK	364565	Abdul Latheef, M.	M	ADMK	227616
1998	2	Madras Central	GEN	Murasoli Maran	M	DMK	300774	Jayakumar, D	M	ADMK	229047
1996	2	Madras Central	GEN	Murasoli Maran	M	DMK	403867	G.K.J.Bharathi	M	INC	123400
1991	2	Madras Central	GEN	Anbarasu Era	M	INC	312302	Somu N.V.N.	M	DMK	209031
1989	2	Madras Central	GEN	Anbarasu Era	M	INC	329739	Kalinidhi A.	M	DMK	263333
1984	2	Madras Central	GEN	Kalanidhi A.	M	DMK	313848	Earnest Paul E.	M	GKC	217104
1980	2	Madras Central	GEN	Kalanidhi A.	M	DMK	290199	Ramachandran P.	M	JNP	185150
1977	2	Madras Central	GEN	Ramachandran P.	M	NCO	259437	Raja Mohamed K	M	ADK	186026

*PC = Parliamentary Constituency

List of Assembly Constituencies in Chennai Central Parliamentary Constituency

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

Names of Assembly Constituencies
Villivakkam	Egmore (SC)	Harbour
Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni	Thousand Lights	Anna Nagar