The DMK is on track to sweep Tamil Nadu: With 38 of the 39 parliamentary seats in the state under its control, the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) appears to have won the election.
All but one seat was won by the DMK in the 2019 elections, with OP Ravindranath, son of AIADMK chief minister O Panneerselvam, being the lone victor.
It attempted to end the proud Dravidian proclamation that the Lotus would never bloom in the state by making inroads into it. In spite of the fact that the BJP has a low chance of converting its popularity into seat wins, the party appears to be securing second place in at least ten constituencies, including Coimbatore, Chennai South and Chennai Central, according to counting trends.
In Tamil Nadu, the BJP has crossed the 10% vote-share mark for the first time with a share of 10.21%.
AIADMK is expected to lose a sharp vote share. However, its ally, the DMDK, has performed well in Virudhunagar, where V Vijaya Prabhakar, son of the late Vijaykanth, ran against Radhika Sarathkumar. In light of the fact that most of the AIADMK’s leaders preferred to sit out the elections and save electoral expenditure for the upcoming Assembly elections, it was difficult for the party to field powerful leaders.
Dharmapuri is being dominated by Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), which is allied to the BJP. BJP contested 23 seats in Tamil Nadu, while PMK, Tamil Maanila Congress, and others contested the remaining seats. AIADMK contested 32 seats, giving five to the DMDK and one to each smaller party.
“A substantial number of fence-sitting voters have endorsed the state government and CM Stalin’s policies, programmes and governance. This has made a difference to the DMK-AIADMK vote gap. Of course, TTV Dinakaran and Panneerselvam split may have impacted the AIADMK’s performance. The BJP’s performance was on expected lines. This proves that BJP’s approach to Tamil Nadu has not worked in its favour,” said political analyst N Sathiyamoorthy.
On April 19, Tamil Nadu voted in the Lok Sabha elections after weeks of fierce campaigns, acrimonious debates, and a never-seen-before kind of spirited fight put up by the BJP to gain a foothold there.
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DMK continues to lead Coimbatore, with a margin of 11,909 between BJP state president K Annamalai and DMK candidate Ganapathy P Rajkumar, which was about 3,000 about an hour-and-a-half ago. DMK’s A Raja leads by an unassailable 76,110 votes, followed by the BJP’s L Murugan in second place and AIADMK’s D Logesh Tamilselvan in third place.
In just two seats (Namakkal-S Tamilmani and Kallakurichi-R Kumaraguru), the main opposition party, AIADMK, was leading.
BJP ally PMK (Sowmiya Anbumani) leads in Dharmapuri by 16,516 votes, followed by DMK’s Mani A.
There is a 7,352 vote difference between AIADMK’s partner Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam’s V Vijayaprabhakaran and the well-known Congress leader B Manickam Tagore. BJP’s R Radikaa is third.
In Tiruvallur, IAS officer-turned-politician Sasikanth Senthil (Congress) leads by 98,246 votes.
K Nallathambi, an AIADMK ally, is in second place, followed by Pon V Balaganapathy, a BJP candidate.
Aatral Ashok Kumar, AIADMK’s candidate in Erode, is 44,351 votes behind DMK’s KE Prakash.
There is a strong lead for the DMK candidates in their respective constituencies such as Kanimozhi in Thottukudi, T R Baalu in Sriperumbudur, Dayanidhi Maran in Central Chennai, and Tamizhachi Thangapandian in South Chennai.
