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Chennai South Lok Sabha Elections

Chennai South Lok Sabha Constituency is one of the 39 parliamentary constituencies of Tamil Nadu. It is one of the three Lok Sabha constituencies representing Chennai.

The Chennai South Parliamentary constituency (constituency number 3) was formed before the 1957 elections and comprises of six legislative assembly segments.

It was earlier known as Madras South and has a total number of 1,162,062 electors.

The electors in the Chennai South Lok Sabha Constituency will cast their votes on April 18 in the second phase of 2019 Lok Sabha election.

Dr J Jayavardhan of AIADMK is the incumbent Member of Parliament from the Chennai South Lok Sabha Constituency.

In the 2014 polls, Dr J Jayavardhan bagged 438,404 to defeat TKS Elangovan of the DMK who got 301779 votes in his favour.

CN Annadurai, the first non-Congress chief minister of Tamil Nadu, had resigned his seat in 1967 after he was nominated for chief ministership. It was later contested and won by Murasoli Maran.

In the upcoming 2019 Lok Sabha election, the AIADMK has re-nominated Dr J Jayavardhan from the Chennai South Lok Sabha Constituency while the DMK has fielded Tamizhachi Thangapandian.

Meanwhile, the BSP has declared R Kumar as its candidate from the Chennai South Lok Sabha seat.

All the 39 parliamentary constituencies in Tamil Nadu will go to polls in the second phase on April 18.

Lok Sabha election 2019 will take place in seven phases across the country – on April 11, April 18, April 23, April 29, May 6, May 12 and May 19.

The results would be declared on May 23.

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Candidates	Party	Status	Votes
Sumathy (A) Thamizhachi Thangapandian	DMK	Won	564872
Dr.J.Jayavardhan	AIADMK	Lost	302649
R.Rangarajan	MNM	Lost	135465
A.J.Sherine	NTK	Lost	50222
Dr.E.Subaya (A) Esakki Subaya	IND	Lost	29522
Nota	NOTA	Lost	16891
Kottur R.Kumar	BSP	Lost	2399
K.Saravana Perumal	IND	Lost	1645
Saikumar.S	SUCI	Lost	1491
Agni Sriramachandran	IND	Lost	1444
Murthy.M	IND	Lost	1429
Dr.A.Naresh	TIK	Lost	1381
D.Karthick	IND	Lost	1203
M.Radha	IND	Lost	1042
Farmer K.Jayaraman	IND	Lost	968
S.Elankumaran	IND	Lost	959
K.Murali Krishnan	PPOI	Lost	860
M.Rajeswari Priya	IND	Lost	772
I.Chidambara Anantha Raja (A) Icarr Weeoui	IND	Lost	743
R.Ganesan	IND	Lost	673
S.Srinivasan (A) Power Star	RPI(A)	Lost	670
Sibi Chakkaravarthy	IND	Lost	647
M.A.Jayakumar	DMSK	Lost	639
K.Kannan	IND	Lost	635
P.Azhagiri	IND	Lost	553
B.Karthikeyan	IND	Lost	533
R.Johnson	ICF	Lost	512
Rosi	IND	Lost	498
G.Devasahayam	IND	Lost	462
G.Dhansekaran	IND	Lost	437
V.Thirunavukarasu	MKK	Lost	436
N.Subramani	IND	Lost	432
A.Ravichandran	IND	Lost	427
J.Janci Rani	IND	Lost	379
E.Dhanasekaran	IND	Lost	350
S.Ashok	IND	Lost	348
Kupal.G.Devadoss	IND	Lost	313
S.Manova	IND	Lost	293
K.Sudhagar	IND	Lost	224
B.Raji	IND	Lost	220
D.Hariharan	IND	Lost	219