Chennai Centra #4
Candidatures180every name on every ballot
Distinct candidates173as the source spells them
Parties43distinct, as published
Years contested131977 to 2024
Largest field37in 2009
Every candidature
| Year | Pos | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | Dayanidhi MaranWON | DMK | 4,13,848 | 56.60% |
| 2024 | 2 | Vinoj | BJP | 1,69,159 | 23.20% |
| 2024 | 3 | B. Parthasarathy | DMDK | 72,016 | 9.90% |
| 2024 | 4 | Dr.R.Karthikeyan | NTK | 46,031 | 6.30% |
| 2024 | 5 | Anbazhagan.G | IND | 3,186 | 0.40% |
| 2024 | 6 | Dilavar Ali | TSP | 2,546 | 0.30% |
| 2024 | 7 | Samaran | BSP | 2,147 | 0.30% |
| 2024 | 8 | L.Kasinathan | IND | 1,060 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 9 | Agni Aalvar | IND | 787 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 10 | C.S.Karnan | ACDP | 761 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 11 | M.L.Ravi | DMSK | 696 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 12 | S.Kandasamy | IND | 596 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 13 | Dhayanidhi Suresh | IND | 567 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 14 | S.Sathish Kumar | IND | 527 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 15 | P.Arjunan | IND | 509 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 16 | G.Omprakash | IND | 488 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 17 | V.V.Tamilarasan | IND | 389 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 18 | Udaya Kumar.V | IND | 382 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 19 | B.Parthasarathy | IND | 380 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 20 | K.Chandrasekar | NMK | 373 | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 21 | N.Raman | TMNP | 314 | 0.00% |
| 2024 | 22 | R.Minnal Raj | IND | 310 | 0.00% |
| 2024 | 23 | A.Selva Kumar | TK | 270 | 0.00% |
| 2024 | 24 | R.Vijay | IND | 268 | 0.00% |
| 2024 | 25 | M.Nagaraj | IND | 254 | 0.00% |
| 2024 | 26 | J.Nagaraj | IND | 241 | 0.00% |
| 2024 | 27 | Senthilkumar | CYP | 223 | 0.00% |
| 2024 | 28 | Ranjithkumar.S | IND | 215 | 0.00% |
| 2024 | 29 | Ravi Balaraman | IND | 183 | 0.00% |
| 2024 | 30 | Manjunatha.R | IND | 159 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 1 | Dayanidhi MaranWON | DMK | 4,48,911 | 57.20% |
| 2019 | 2 | Sam Paul. S.R. | PMK | 1,47,391 | 18.80% |
| 2019 | 3 | Kameela Nasser | MNM | 92,249 | 11.70% |
| 2019 | 4 | Dr.Karthikeyan. R | NTK | 30,886 | 3.90% |
| 2019 | 5 | Sheik Mohamed @ Dhehlan Baqavi | SDPI | 23,741 | 3.00% |
| 2019 | 6 | Karnan.C.S. | ACDP | 5,768 | 0.70% |
| 2019 | 7 | Jitendra Kumar Jain. | RPIA | 3,398 | 0.40% |
| 2019 | 8 | Parthasarathy.M. | BSP | 2,696 | 0.30% |
| 2019 | 9 | Kuppusamy. K. | IND | 1,770 | 0.20% |
| 2019 | 10 | Sasikumar.S. | TNIK | 1,556 | 0.20% |
| 2019 | 11 | Sam Paul | IND | 1,444 | 0.20% |
| 2019 | 12 | Samuel Paul | IND | 1,234 | 0.20% |
| 2019 | 13 | Dr. Gunasekar. N | IND | 1,229 | 0.20% |
| 2019 | 14 | Govindaraj. L. | IND | 1,184 | 0.20% |
| 2019 | 15 | Geethalakshmi.V.R. | PPI | 1,030 | 0.10% |
| 2019 | 16 | Chandranathan. S. | IND | 929 | 0.10% |
| 2019 | 17 | Suresh Babu. D. | DMSK | 690 | 0.10% |
| 2019 | 18 | Najimunnissa | AMK | 645 | 0.10% |
| 2019 | 19 | Valarmathi. K. | AIVP | 643 | 0.10% |
| 2019 | 20 | Tamilarasan. V.V. | IND | 511 | 0.10% |
| 2019 | 21 | Radhakrishnan. V. | IND | 504 | 0.10% |
| 2019 | 22 | Raj Ramchand | IND | 497 | 0.10% |
| 2019 | 23 | Prabhakaran. N. | IND | 377 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 24 | Nasar. K. | IND | 360 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 25 | Vaithiyanathan. R | IND | 356 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 26 | Prabakaran. K.M. | IND | 334 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 27 | Dinakaran. G. | IND | 325 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 28 | Raghavan. M. | IND | 322 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 29 | Madhanagopal. T | IND | 235 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 30 | Pushparaj. J. L. | IND | 216 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 31 | Ravichandran. M | IND | 197 | 0.00% |
| 2014 | 1 | S.R. VijayakumarWON | AIADM | 3,33,296 | 40.90% |
| 2014 | 2 | Dayanidhi Maran | DMK | 2,87,455 | 35.30% |
| 2014 | 3 | J. Constandine Ravindran | DMDK | 1,14,798 | 14.10% |
| 2014 | 4 | C.D. Meyyappan | INC | 25,981 | 3.20% |
| 2014 | 5 | J. Prabhakar | AAP | 19,553 | 2.40% |
| 2014 | 6 | Muralikrishnan (A) SAMARAN | BSP | 2,531 | 0.30% |
| 2014 | 7 | M. Mohamed Rasik | IND | 2,019 | 0.20% |
| 2014 | 8 | S.D. Krishnakumar | RPIA | 1,528 | 0.20% |
| 2014 | 9 | T. Ravikumar | IND | 973 | 0.10% |
| 2014 | 10 | Auditor Gopinarayanan | MMK | 805 | 0.10% |
| 2014 | 11 | M. Murugan | IND | 697 | 0.10% |
| 2014 | 12 | P. Ahila | IND | 579 | 0.10% |
| 2014 | 13 | P. Manimaran | IND | 391 | 0.00% |
| 2014 | 14 | B. Ambeth Venkatesh | IND | 390 | 0.00% |
| 2014 | 14 | Arundhathi Jaiganesh (A) S.JAIGANESH | IND | 390 | 0.00% |
| 2014 | 16 | K.Raveendran | IND | 369 | 0.00% |
| 2014 | 17 | M. Prabakaran | IND | 336 | 0.00% |
| 2014 | 18 | V. Chandramohan | IND | 324 | 0.00% |
| 2014 | 19 | D. Babu | IND | 261 | 0.00% |
| 2014 | 20 | D. Ramesh | IND | 259 | 0.00% |
| 2009 | 1 | Dayanidhi MaranWON | DMK | 2,85,783 | 46.80% |
| 2009 | 2 | Mogamed Ali Jinnah S.M.K. | AIADM | 2,52,329 | 41.30% |
| 2009 | 3 | Ramakrishnan.V.V | DMDK | 38,959 | 6.40% |
| 2009 | 4 | Hyder Ali.S | MMK | 13,160 | 2.20% |
| 2009 | 5 | Thomas.T.Jacob | YSP | 2,582 | 0.40% |
| 2009 | 6 | Yunis Khan.Ay | BSP | 2,108 | 0.30% |
| 2009 | 7 | Mani.G | IND | 1,914 | 0.30% |
| 2009 | 8 | Viswanathan.E | MMK | 1,246 | 0.20% |
| 2009 | 9 | Mohammed Ali Zinna.A | IND | 1,061 | 0.20% |
| 2009 | 10 | Anees Hussain.H | IND | 940 | 0.20% |
| 2009 | 11 | Vijayakumar | PPI | 924 | 0.20% |
| 2009 | 12 | Girija Shanker.R | IND | 844 | 0.10% |
| 2009 | 13 | Arivudainambi.N | IND | 839 | 0.10% |
| 2009 | 14 | Ravikumar.T | IND | 672 | 0.10% |
| 2009 | 15 | Raaj Ramchand | SS | 613 | 0.10% |
| 2009 | 16 | Arasakumar.M.S | IND | 526 | 0.10% |
| 2009 | 17 | Ramana Reddy.K.V | KDC | 503 | 0.10% |
| 2009 | 18 | Vasu.S | SP | 468 | 0.10% |
| 2009 | 19 | Mohan.K | IND | 422 | 0.10% |
| 2009 | 20 | Mohamed Ali | IND | 420 | 0.10% |
| 2009 | 21 | Udayakumar | IND | 383 | 0.10% |
| 2009 | 22 | Sridhar.S | IND | 380 | 0.10% |
| 2009 | 23 | Ranganathan.V | ABKMM | 305 | 0.00% |
| 2009 | 24 | Gangadurai.G | JJ | 295 | 0.00% |
| 2009 | 25 | Krishnan.P.R | IND | 283 | 0.00% |
| 2009 | 26 | Sivakumar.S | IND | 259 | 0.00% |
| 2009 | 27 | Prabhu.V | IND | 248 | 0.00% |
| 2009 | 28 | Gunasekaran.M | IND | 232 | 0.00% |
| 2009 | 29 | Senthil.P | IND | 225 | 0.00% |
| 2009 | 30 | Rajakumar.S | IND | 211 | 0.00% |
| 2009 | 31 | Wilson Paul.S | IND | 208 | 0.00% |
| 2009 | 32 | Nahamani.J | JMM | 201 | 0.00% |
| 2009 | 33 | Dhamodaran.T | IND | 179 | 0.00% |
| 2009 | 34 | Marimuthu.E | IND | 170 | 0.00% |
| 2009 | 35 | Parimalam.V | IND | 169 | 0.00% |
| 2009 | 36 | Teackraj.D | IND | 165 | 0.00% |
| 2009 | 37 | Loganathan.V | IND | 126 | 0.00% |
| 2004 | 1 | Krishnaswamy. AWON | DMK | 5,17,617 | 61.50% |
| 2004 | 2 | Venugopal. Dr. P | AIADM | 2,82,271 | 33.50% |
| 2004 | 3 | Vijayaragunathan. M | IND | 11,995 | 1.40% |
| 2004 | 4 | Balakrishnan. K | IND | 11,517 | 1.40% |
| 2004 | 5 | Sambath. S | JP | 5,815 | 0.70% |
| 2004 | 6 | Ravi. M | IND | 4,194 | 0.50% |
| 2004 | 7 | Jayakumar. J K B E | BSP | 3,805 | 0.50% |
| 2004 | 8 | Purushothaman. B | IND | 1,129 | 0.10% |
| 2004 | 9 | Selvaraj. K | IND | 759 | 0.10% |
| 2004 | 10 | Eagambaram. S | IND | 721 | 0.10% |
| 2004 | 11 | Sivakumar. S | IND | 685 | 0.10% |
| 2004 | 12 | Palani. E | IND | 672 | 0.10% |
| 2004 | 13 | Dilli. C | IND | 649 | 0.10% |
| 2004 | 14 | Suresh. M | IND | 639 | 0.10% |
| 2004 | 15 | Sivakumar. M G | IND | 633 | 0.10% |
| 1999 | 1 | Krishnaswamy, A.WON | DMK | 3,85,558 | 51.80% |
| 1999 | 2 | Venugopal, K. | AIADM | 3,10,556 | 41.70% |
| 1999 | 3 | Pushparaman, J. | TMCM | 28,292 | 3.80% |
| 1999 | 4 | Janakiraman, S. | CPIML | 1,681 | 0.20% |
| 1999 | 5 | Ponniah, C. | RPIA | 1,452 | 0.20% |
| 1999 | 6 | Elangovan, K. | IND | 946 | 0.10% |
| 1999 | 7 | Selvam, N. | IND | 591 | 0.10% |
| 1998 | 1 | Venugopal, K.WON | AIADM | 3,26,528 | 45.00% |
| 1998 | 2 | Nagarathinam, T | DMK | 3,02,733 | 41.80% |
| 1998 | 3 | Jayakumar Dr.K | INC | 64,944 | 9.00% |
| 1998 | 4 | Vyasarrajan S | SSP | 1,345 | 0.20% |
| 1998 | 5 | Jayaraman S.T | IND | 777 | 0.10% |
| 1996 | 1 | Nagaratnam.TWON | DMK | 4,31,919 | 55.40% |
| 1996 | 2 | Lata Priyakumar | INC | 1,86,208 | 23.90% |
| 1996 | 3 | Moorthy.M | IND | 66,760 | 8.60% |
| 1996 | 4 | Kavinger Kudiyarasu | MDMK | 44,884 | 5.80% |
| 1996 | 5 | Arjunan.K | BJP | 10,861 | 1.40% |
| 1996 | 6 | Srinivasan.A | IND | 2,477 | 0.30% |
| 1996 | 7 | Sankar.P | IND | 1,533 | 0.20% |
| 1996 | 8 | Mooventhan.A | IND | 848 | 0.10% |
| 1991 | 1 | Maragatham Chandrasekar (W)WON | INC | 4,00,741 | 59.30% |
| 1991 | 2 | K. Sundaram | DMK | 2,20,169 | 32.60% |
| 1991 | 3 | Somu Alias Somusundaram | BJP | 18,144 | 2.70% |
| 1991 | 4 | M. Chockalingam | IND | 5,503 | 0.80% |
| 1991 | 5 | K. Mahalingam | IND | 4,812 | 0.70% |
| 1989 | 1 | Maragatham ChandrasekharWON | INC | 3,87,795 | 54.10% |
| 1989 | 2 | Ganesan, K. | DMK | 2,33,244 | 32.60% |
| 1989 | 3 | Gopalan, N. | IND | 74,913 | 10.50% |
| 1989 | 4 | Appan, G.A. | IND | 2,892 | 0.40% |
| 1989 | 5 | Sundaresan, K. | IND | 2,421 | 0.30% |
| 1989 | 6 | Seran Parayan, R. Alias Seran, R. | LDB | 1,695 | 0.20% |
| 1989 | 7 | Varadaraj, T. | IND | 1,387 | 0.20% |
| 1989 | 8 | Magalingam, K. | IND | 1,150 | 0.20% |
| 1989 | 9 | Chockalingam, M. | IND | 857 | 0.10% |
| 1984 | 1 | Maragatham ChandrasekharWON | INC | 3,32,468 | 56.60% |
| 1984 | 2 | Nagaratnam T. | DMK | 2,22,994 | 38.00% |
| 1984 | 3 | Appan G.A. | IND | 2,975 | 0.50% |
| 1980 | 1 | Nagaratnam T.WON | DMK | 2,53,912 | 56.30% |
| 1980 | 2 | Jaganathan S. | AIADM | 1,71,135 | 37.90% |
| 1980 | 3 | Moorty M. | IND | 6,317 | 1.40% |
| 1980 | 4 | Emperuman V. | IND | 6,017 | 1.30% |
| 1980 | 5 | Jayabarathy D. | INCU | 2,414 | 0.50% |
| 1980 | 6 | Varadarajan T. | RPI | 1,347 | 0.30% |
| 1980 | 7 | Ulaganathan M.S. | IND | 803 | 0.20% |
| 1977 | 1 | Jaganathan S.WON | AIADM | 2,39,632 | 51.80% |
| 1977 | 2 | Elumalai T.P. | INCO | 1,93,700 | 41.90% |
| 1977 | 3 | Angamuthu N. | IND | 18,033 | 3.90% |
Rows are ordered by year, most recent first, then by finishing position as published. Winner rows are tinted; NOTA rows are set apart because NOTA is not a party and is never a candidate.