Dharmapuri Lok Sabha Election Results 2019: DMK’s S Senthil Kumar leading with 41.96% votes

Dharmapuri Lok Sabha Election Results 2019: Election in Dharmapuri constituency was held on April 18 in the second phase of Lok Sabha election 2019. Polling in 38 out of 39 parliamentary constituencies was held in the second phase of the general election.

Counting at 5:34 pm: DMK's DNV Senthilkumar with 437744 votes against PMK's Anbumani Ramadoss who has so far secured 390482 votes.

DMK’s S Senthil Kumar and PMK’s Anbumani Ramadoss were the key candidates in the fray in 2019 election. PMK entered into an alliance with AIADMK.

Dharmapuri Lok Sabha Constituency profile

Tamil Nadu has a total of 39 parliamentary constituencies where 7 of them including Sriperumbudur, Chidambaram, Rasipuram, Pollachi, Perambalur, Tenkasi, and Nagapattinam have been reserved for candidates representing scheduled caste community. However, no seat here has been reserved for Scheduled Tribes. 

In the previous Lok Sabha election, Anbumani Ramadoss of the PMK who was the sitting MP in the region had defeated PS Mohan of the AIADMK in 2014 with a margin of more than 50,000 votes. But this time, both the parties entered into an alliance for the upcoming election. Apart from PMK, AIADMK aligned with BJP, PMK, DMDK, Tamil Maanila Congress, Puthia Tamizagam, Puthia Needhi Katchi and NR Congress.

While DMK entered into an alliance with Congress, CPI(M), CPI, MDMK, VCK, IUML, KMDK and IJK.   

According to the 2011 census data, Dharmapuri houses a total of 1,507,000 people out of which 774,303 are males and 732,540 female. The district has an average literacy rate of 82%.

Dharmapuri Lok Sabha constituency 2019 candidates 

DMK: S Senthil Kumar
PMK: Anbumani Ramadoss

Dharmapuri Lok Sabha results in 2014, 2009 and 2004 

2014: Anbumani Ramadoss of the PMK received 468194 votes and he defeated PS Mohan of the AIADMK who only got 391048 votes. 

2009: R Thamaraiselvan of the DMK received 365812 votes. He defeated Dr R Senthil of the PMK who only got 229870 votes.

2004: Dr R Senthil of the PMK received 397540 votes. He defeated PD Elangovan of the BJP who secured only 181450 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 had cancelled the election in Vellore constituency after a 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.