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- DMK president MK Stalin released the names of 20 seats the party will be contesting in its traditional stronghold of Chennai and the northern parts of Tamil Nadu.
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Apr 17, 2024 · Will the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) again be the third largest party, behind the BJP and the Congress, in the 18th Lok Sabha? It’s a question that’s being bandied about in Tamil Nadu a lot these days as the state braces to vote in the first phase of the general election on April 19.
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19 hours ago · 28 Sep 2024, 4:27 pm. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has finally felt the time is ripe to elevate Chief Minister MK Stalin’s son and Minister for Youth Welfare and Sports Development ...
In Northern Tamil Nadu, the Chennai Metropolitan Area and its surroundings proved to be a stronghold of the DMK. The DMK-led SPA completely swept all of the constituencies located in Chennai , Thiruvallur , and Kanchipuram districts. [ 82 ]
- SPA [2]
- 2017
- M. K. Stalin
- DMK
- Eroding Participation
- A Growing Pool of Parties and Candidates
- Geography of The Results
- A Not-So Closely Fought Election
- Dravidian Parties Domination Continues
- AIADMK Got Dragged Down by Its Partners
- Sub-Regional Analysis
- Reservations
- Conclusion
Participation in Tamil elections has been declining over the past two elections. In 2011, 78% of voters cast their ballots. That number went down to 75% five years later and to 73% in 2021. It is hard to say why this is happening, when participation is increasing across most states in India. Perhaps the extensive urbanisation is a cause for such a ...
The dominance of Tamil Nadu’s party system by the two Dravidian parties does not deter citizens from contesting elections on their own, either as independent candidates or as members of small, local parties. The 2021 saw 4,232 individuals contesting, a number that has consistently increased since 2001 (after 1996, the deposit to contest an election...
The map of the 2021 results shows that party performance tends to be clustered in specific areas. Each party possess a number of strongholds that they keep over time. The DMK has increased its seat share across the geography of the state but to a lower degree in the west and south compared to the north and central regions. The western and southern ...
Party-wise victory margins show us that barring two strong performances from the Communist Party of India, most parties won their seats with relatively close margins. The DMK’s median victory margin is at nearly 12%, which indicates comfortable wins. The AIADMK’s median victory margin is lower, at 8%, which tells us that it had to fight more to win...
The next three graphs show us the sustained dominance of the DMK and the AIADMK across five decades. The see-saw performance of both parties, characteristic of the 1980s and 1990s, led to a period of greater dominance of the AIADMK, under Jayalithaa, who would serve five times as chief minister between 1996 and 2016. The mid-1990s and the early 200...
Strike rates are a good way to compare the performance of parties within their alliances. The overall figures show that the DMK and its partners converted 68% of the 234 seats they contested into victories, against 32% for the AIADMK alliance. At the outset, the DMK alliance was much broader than its opponent’s. One hundred and eighty seven candida...
We already saw that there is a geography to electoral victories in Tamil Nadu. Breaking the data by sub-regions is another way to observe these variations. The DMK won in three of the four sub-regions: the central, northern and southern regions. The AIADMK was ahead, by nearly 6% vote share, only in the western region. It obtained its lowest vote s...
The Tamil Nadu assembly has 44 seats reserved for members of the Scheduled Castes and only two seats reserved for the Scheduled Tribes. The DMK alliance won 28 Scheduled Caste seats (21 with DMK candidates) against 16 by the AIADMK. All in all, there is no major difference of performance between the two parties in reserved seats, compared to genera...
This data tells us that the DMK won a clean victory but that the AIADMK remained a competitive adversary. The DMK returns to power after ten long years, putting an end to a longer period of decline. This augurs well for its new leader, MK Stalin, who leads a party with strong organisational capacity. This article is not the place to interpret the r...
6 days ago · India. Tamil Nadu. In black and red: 75 years of the DMK. The DMK, which split from the DK, tapped into Dravidianism and pursued a politics of community, putting together a broad coalition of the ...
Sep 17, 2024 · The survival of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the ruling party of Tamil Nadu, is a political miracle. In 75 years, the party has seen splits, electoral routs, dismissal from power,...
2 hours ago · Tamil Nadu's Udhayanidhi Stalin has been appointed deputy chief minister in a major cabinet reshuffle. The swearing-in ceremony is scheduled for September 29 at Raj Bhavan, Chennai. This move ...
