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Madurai is one of the Lok Sabha Constituencies that went to vote in Tamil Nadu in the Lok Sabha 2019.
Updated : May 23, 2019, 08:32 PM IST
Madurai is one of the Lok Sabha Constituencies that went to vote in Tamil Nadu in the Lok Sabha 2019.
Constituency Profile
From the UPA alliance the seat is being contested by Su Venkatesan while AIADMK 's Raj Satyen VVR is hoping to win here from NDA. BSP's Dhavamani A is also in the fray.
The Lok Sabha seat was created post delimitation in 2008 and has over 1,090,000 voters.
The assembly constituencies that fall in Madurai parliamentary constituency are Madurai North, Madurai West, Madurai Central, Madurai East, Madurai South and Melur
AIADMK's R Gopalakrishnan won the seat in 2014 beating V Velusamy of DMK. In 2009, MK Alagiri of DMK had beaten Mohan P of CPM.
From the UPA alliance the seat is being contested by Su Venkatesan while AIADMK 's Raj Satyen VVR is hoping to win here from NDA. BSP's Dhavamani A is also in the fray.
All seats in Tamil Nadu are going to vote on April 18. They are Arakkonam, Arani, Chennai Central, Chennai North, Chennai South, Chidambaram, Coimbatore, Cuddalore, Dharmapuri, Dindigul, Erode, Kallakurichi, Kancheepuram, Kanniyakumari, Karur, Krishnagiri, Madurai, Mayiladuthurai, Nagapattinam, Namakkal, Nilgiris, Perambalur, Pollachi, Ramanathapuram, Salem, Sivaganga , Sriperumbudur, Tenkasi, Thanjavur, Theni, Thoothukkudi, Tiruchirappalli, Tirunelveli, Tiruppur, Tiruvannamalai, Vellore, Viluppuram, Virudhunagar, Tiruvallur.
There’s an interesting battle on the cards with an AIADMK-led NDA alliance with the BJP, PMK, DMDK, Puthiya Neethi Katchi and Puthiya Tamizhagam. Meanwhile the Congress has forged alliances with DMK, two communist parties and other regional parties. Smaller partners include VCK, IUML and KMK.
The AIADMK under Jayalalithaa had managed to win 37 seats, with BJP and PMK getting 1 each. The Congress and the DMK ended up with zero seats in 2014.