Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 2004

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39 seats
First party Second party   Leader M. Karunanidhi J. Jayalalithaa Party DMK AIADMK Alliance INC+ (post pollUPA)+DPA+LF NDA Seats won 39 0 Seat change 12 14 Popular vote 1,64,83,390 1,00,02,913 Percentage 57.40% 34.84% Swing 15.73% 11.57%
Partywise structure Alliance-wise structure
Prime Minister before election Atal Bihari Vajpayee BJP Prime Minister after election Manmohan Singh INC

The2004 Indian general election polls inTamil Nadu were held for 39 seats in the state. The result was a victory for theDemocratic Progressive Alliance, which included theUnited Progressive Alliance (UPA) and its allies theLeft Front which won all 39 seats in the state. DMK and its allies were also able to hold on toPondicherry, which has 1 seat, which allowed the UPA to win all 40 seats in Tamil Nadu andPondicherry. The 2 larger partnersDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) (16) andIndian National Congress (INC) (10) won the majority of seats, with the junior partnersPattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) (5) andMarumaralarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) (4) winning the rest. The remaining 4 seats were won by theLeft Front parties. Due to the support of the Left Front for the government at the centre, all 39 seats in Tamil Nadu, supported the formation of the UPA-led government.

The DPA was formed, because DMK, PMK and MDMK, left the NDA mostly on theAyodhya issue and created an alliance that supported the UPA. The NDA paid a price for it, when their BJP-AIADMK alliance couldn't even win a seat in this state.^[1]

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam			M. Karunanidhi	15	16
	Indian Union Muslim League			K. M. Kader Mohideen	1
	Indian National Congress			G. K. Vasan	9	10
	Congress Jananayaka Peravai			P. Chidambaram	1
	Pattali Makkal Katchi			S. Ramadoss	5
	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam			Vaiko	4
	Communist Party of India			R. Nallakannu	2
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)			N. Varadarajan	2
	Total				39

Party		Flag	Election symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam			J. Jayalalithaa	33
	Bharatiya Janata Party			C. P. Radhakrishnan	6

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi			Thol. Thirumavalavan	8	25
	Makkal Tamil Desam Katchi			R. S. Raja Kannappan	5
	Puthiya Tamilagam			K. Krishnasamy	5
	Janata Dal (United)			George Fernandes	3
	Indian National League			Janab	3
	Puratchi Council				1

Party		Flag	Election symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Janata Party			Subramanian Swamy	21	31
	Puthiya Needhi Katchi			A. C. Shanmugam	10

Note: The janata party and puthiya Needhi Katchi contested in janata party's symbol

Alliance		Party		Popular Vote	Percentage	Swing	Seats won	Seat Change
	United Progressive Alliance		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	7,064,393	24.60%	1.47%	16	4
			Indian National Congress	4,134,255	14.40%	3.30%	10	8
			Pattali Makkal Katchi	1,927,367	6.71%	1.50%	5
			Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1,679,870	5.95%	0.10%	4
			Communist Party of India	852,981	2.97%	0.41%	2	2
			Communist Party of India (Marxist)	824,524	2.87%	0.52%	2	1
			Total	16,483,390	57.50%	4.10%	39	15
	National Democratic Alliance		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	8,547,014	29.77%	3.05%	0	10
			Bharatiya Janata Party	1,455,899	5.07%	2.07%	0	4
			Total	10,002,913	34.84%	0.98%	0	14
	Independents			947,938	3.30%	2.05%	0
	Other Parties (13 parties)			2,228,212	4.36%	7.13%	0	1
Total				28,714,515	100.00%		39
Valid Votes				28,714,515	99.94%
Invalid Votes				18,439	0.06%
Total Votes				28,732,954	100.00%
Registered Voters/Turnout				47,252,271	60.81%	2.83%

†: Seat change represents seats won in terms of the current alliances, which is considerably different from the last election. Also the seat change for BJP, includes the merged partyMADMK, who won 1 seat in the last election.
‡: Vote % reflects the percentage of votes the party received compared to the entire electorate that voted in this election. Adjusted (Adj.) Vote %, reflects the % of votes the party received per constituency that they contested.
Sources: Election Commission of India^[2]

• Note:UPA was not in existence in 1999, instead the number of seats won in 1999, represents the seats won byIndian National Congress and its allies.
• Note: INC affiliated parties, are parties that did not form an alliance or coalition with Congress party, but instead gave outside support.
• Note: Left front, whose parties were allies of DMK in Tamil Nadu, was not part of theUPA, in 2004, instead gave outside support.

Source: NES Election 2004 Analysis^[3]

Source: The Hindu^[4]
After the UPA victory in this election, Tamil Nadu was rewarded with 12 berths in Union Council of Ministers, with 6 cabinet berths, which is the most this state has ever received after an election. 7 of the Ministers were from DMK, 2 from PMK, while the rest were from Congress.

• Elections in Tamil Nadu

• https://web.archive.org/web/20081218010942/http://www.eci.gov.in/StatisticalReports/ElectionStatistics.asp
• https://web.archive.org/web/20090304134828/http://www.eci.gov.in/StatisticalReports/LS_2004/Vol_I_LS_2004.pdf
• Website of Election Commission of India
• Volume I, 2004 Indian general election, 14th Lok Sabha
• Voters' fury against AIADMK

• 2004 Indian general election by state or union territory
• Indian general elections in Tamil Nadu
• 2000s in Tamil Nadu

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