Bharatiya Janta Party on Tenkasi

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 share35.20%in 1999

Worst vote share7.70%in 1996

Average vote share21.00% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1996

Last contested2024

Votes polled here4.99 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, 2004, 2009, 2014, 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

3 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2024	B John Pandian	2,08,825	20.10%	3	Lost · 3rd
1999	Arumugam,s.	2,38,354	35.20%	2	Lost · 2nd
1996	Arumugam S.	52,120	7.70%	4	Lost · 4th

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Communist Party Of India Dravida Munetra Kazhagam Tamil Maanila Congress (MOOPANAR)Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Indian National Congress (I)Puthiya Tamilagam Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Indian National Congress (ORGANISATION)Janta Party Independent Pattali Makkal Katchi Janata Dal (United)Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Naam Tamilar Katchi Tharasu Makkal Mandaram Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam Bahujan Samaj Party Makkal Needhi Maiam Jharkhand Party Tamil Nadu Makkal Congress Viro Ke Vir Indian Party Samajwadi Party Bahujan Dravida Party Desiya Makkal Sakthi Katchi Samata Party Communist Party Of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star Anti Corruption Dynamic Party