Dravida Munetra Kazhagam on Kancheepuram

State 33 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 2 OF 7 contested

DMK runner-up 5 times

Strike rate

28.6%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 7 published candidatures

Best vote share55.30%in 2019

Worst vote share25.60%in 1991

Average vote share38.59% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1977

Last contested2019

Votes polled here22.1 Lacross all 7 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: 1980, 1996, 1998, 2004, 2009, 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

7 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2019	Selvam.G	6,84,004	55.30%	1	Won
2014	Selvam G	3,52,529	31.20%	2	Lost · 2nd
1999	Jagathrakshakan, S. Dr.	3,46,520	46.70%	1	Won
1991	Kannaiyan M.	1,71,806	25.60%	2	Lost · 2nd
1989	Murthy, K.	2,37,194	33.30%	2	Lost · 2nd
1984	Pulavar K. Govindan	2,31,664	39.10%	2	Lost · 2nd
1977	Veeraswami N.	1,85,954	38.90%	2	Lost · 2nd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Pattali Makkal Katchi Tamil Maanila Congress (MOOPANAR)Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Indian National Congress (I)Independent Bharatiya Janta Party 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