Bharatiya Janta Party on Thoothukkudi

State 33 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 0 OF 3 contested

BJP runner-up 1 time

Strike rate

0%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 3 published candidatures

Best vote share21.80%in 2019

Worst vote share3.80%in 1996

Average vote share9.90% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1996

Last contested2019

Votes polled here2.68 Lacross all 3 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, 2014, 2024 — 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

3 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2019	Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan	2,15,934	21.80%	2	Lost · 2nd
2009	Saravanan.S	27,013	4.10%	4	Lost · 4th
1996	Ponniah A.R.	25,545	3.80%	5	Lost · 5th

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

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