Bharatiya Janta Party on Kancheepuram

State 33 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 0 OF 3 contested

BJP never finished second here

Strike rate

0%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 3 published candidatures

Best vote share2.60%in 1984

Worst vote share0.90%in 1996

Average vote share1.80% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1984

Last contested1996

Votes polled here35,012across 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, 1989, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 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
1996	Manoharan.N	6,596	0.90%	5	Lost · 5th
1991	Eraghavan D.V.R.	12,954	1.90%	4	Lost · 4th
1984	M.D. Kalyanasundaram	15,462	2.60%	3	Lost · 3rd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Dravida Munetra Kazhagam Pattali Makkal Katchi Tamil Maanila Congress (MOOPANAR)Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Indian National Congress (I)Independent Naam Tamilar Katchi All India Indira Congress (TIWARI)Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam Janata Dal (United)Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Bahujan Samaj Party Jharkhand Party Republican Party Of India (A)Janata Dal Tharasu Makkal Mandaram Shoshit Samaj Party Akhila India Jananayaka Makkal Katchi (Dr. Issac)Janta Party (SECULAR)Samata Party Lok Dal Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Samajwadi Party Bharatiya Backward Party Lok Jan Shakti Party