Bharatiya Janta Party on Pollachi

State 33 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 0 OF 4 contested

BJP runner-up 1 time

Strike rate

0%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 4 published candidatures

Best vote share27.30%in 2014

Worst vote share2.20%in 2009

Average vote share12.88% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1996

Last contested2024

Votes polled here5.31 Lacross all 4 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Bharatiya Janta Party vote share · a ringed point is a year they won this seat · a dashed upright is a contest with no point for this party, where the line breaks rather than touching zero.

Did not contest: 1977, 1980, 1984, 1989, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2019 — the seat went to the polls in those years and this party fielded no candidate. The line is broken there. It is not zero.

Every contest

4 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2024	Vasantharajan K	2,23,354	19.80%	3	Lost · 3rd
2014	Eswaran.E.R.	2,76,118	27.30%	2	Lost · 2nd
2009	Baba Ramesh.V.S	16,815	2.20%	5	Lost · 5th
1996	Elangandhi .E.K	15,123	2.20%	4	Lost · 4th

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

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