Polling in all 38 parliamentary constituencies in Tamil Nadu took place on April 18 in the second phase of the general election 2019.
Arakkonam Lok Sabha Election Results 2019: Election in Arakkonam constituency was held on April 18 in the second phase of Lok Sabha election 2019. Polling in all 38 parliamentary constituencies in Tamil Nadu took place in the second phase of the general election. Counting of votes is underway.
Arakkonam Lok Sabha Election Results Live counting:
01:52 pm: DMK's S Jagathrakshakan with 240775 votes ahead of PMK's AK Moorthy who has so far secured 128013 votes.
In 2019, the key contest here was among DMK's S Jagathrakshakan and PMK's AK Moorthy (who has been a former union minister in the state) from this seat. AIADMK had not fielded its candidate in Arakkonam constituency and allotted the seat to its alliance partner PMK.
Arakkonam Lok Sabha constituency profile
The two major parties in Tamil Nadu — AIADMK and DMK — had entered into an alliance with a number of parties for the forthcoming elections.
AIADMK contested the election in alliance with BJP, PMK, DMDK, Tamil Maanila Congress, Puthia Tamizagam, Puthia Needhi Katchi and NR Congress. While MK Stalin-led DMK aligned with Congress, CPI(M), CPI, MDMK, VCK, IUML, KMDK and IJK.
Formed in 1977, Arakkonam constituency has six Vidhan Sabha segments and 1,098,607 voters, as per 2009 census. Arakkonam town is located in the Vellore district. According to 2011 census, the total population of the town is 78,000 out of which 38,600 are males and about 39,200 are females.
Arakkonam Lok Sabha constituency 2019 candidates
DMK: S Jagathrakshakan
PMK: AK Moorthy
Arakkonam Lok Sabha constituency results in 2014, 2009, 2004
2014: G Hari (M) of the AIADMK had received 493534 votes who defeated NR Elango (M) of the DMK with a margin of more than 2 lakh votes. NR Elango had secured only 252768 votes.
2009: S Jagathrakshakan of the DMK had secured 415041 votes and defeated PMK's R Velu with a margin of more than 1 lakh votes. R Velu had secured only 305245
votes.
2004: R Velu of the PMK had got 386911 votes. He defeated ADMK's N Shanmugam with almost a margin of 1 lakh votes. Shanmugan had secured 284715
votes.
The state of Tamil Nadu has 39 parliamentary constituencies out of which seven are reserved for SCs (Sriperumbudur, Chidambaram, Rasipuram, Pollachi, Perambalur, Tenkasi, and Nagapattinam). However, no seat is reserved for Scheduled Tribes in the state. In 2019, EC cancelled the election in Vellore constituency after large sum of cash was allegedly seized from a DMK candidate's office in Vellore, therefore, out of 39, polling took place in 38 Lok Sabha constituencies only.
List of all 39 parliamentary constituencies in Tamil Nadu
Tiruvallur, Chennai North, Chennai South, Chennai Central, Sriperumbudur, Kancheepuram, Arakkonam, Vellore, Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri, Tiruvannamalai, Arani, Viluppuram, Kallakurichi, Salem, Namakkal, Erode, Tiruppur, Nilgiris, Coimbatore, Pollachi, Dindigul, Karur, Tiruchirappalli, Perambalur, Cuddalore, Chidambaram, Mayiladuthurai, Nagapattinam, Thanjavur, Sivaganga, Madurai, Theni, Virudhunagar, Ramanathapuram, Thoothukkudi, Tenkasi, Tirunelveli, Kanniyakumari.
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