Dravida Munetra Kazhagam on Tenkasi

State 33 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 1 OF 2 contested

DMK runner-up 1 time

Strike rate

50%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 2 published candidatures

Best vote share44.70%in 2019

Worst vote share32.20%in 1991

Average vote share38.45% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1991

Last contested2019

Votes polled here6.76 Lacross all 2 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Dravida Munetra Kazhagam 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, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009, 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

2 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2019	Dhanush.M.Kumar	4,76,156	44.70%	1	Won
1991	Sadhan Thirumalaikumar T.	1,99,635	32.20%	2	Lost · 2nd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Communist Party Of India Tamil Maanila Congress (MOOPANAR)Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Indian National Congress (I)Puthiya Tamilagam Bharatiya Janta Party 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