Virudhunagar Lok Sabha Constituency Election Results 2019 in Tamil Nadu: Manickam Tagore of Congress Wins This Parliamentary Seat
According to Election Commission of India 2009 data, the constituency has 992,051 electors and is made of six legislative assembly segments. The constituency number of Virudhunagar is 34 and it has a total of 992,051 voters.
Results for the Virudhunagar Lok Sabha Constituency in Tamil Nadu has been declared by the Election Commission of India (ECI). Manickam Tagore of the Congress party has won the seat. The counting of votes for the Virudhunagar Lok Sabha Constituency began at 8 AM on Thursday, May 23. This is one of the 39 Parliamentary constituencies in Tamil Nadu which went to poll on April 18. The Constituency was formerly known as Sivakasi.
It came into existence post the delimitation of the constituencies and is one of the 39 constituencies of Tamil Nadu. According to Election Commission of India 2009 data, the constituency has 992,051 electors and is made of six legislative assembly segments. The constituency number of Virudhunagar is 34 and it has a total of 992,051 voters. Lok Sabha Elections 2019 Schedule: Voting In 7 Phases From April 11 to May 19, Counting And Results On May 23; Check All Dates For General Elections.
Out of the total voters, 500,734 are females and 491,317 are males. The city of Virudhunagar is the district headquarters of Virudhunagar District and is located 506 km from Chennai and 53 km from Madurai.
For the Lok Sabha Elections 2019, senior DMDK leader R Azhagarsamy will be contesting from Virudhunagar while the AMMK has fielded S Paramasiva Ayyappan from this constituency. Tamil Nadu Lok Sabha Elections 2019 Dates: Constituency-Wise Complete Schedule Of Voting And Results For General Elections.
Lok Sabha Election 2019 Schedule for Virudhunagar Constituency:
| Issue of Notification | March 19 |
| Last date for filing nomination | March 26 |
| Scrutiny of nomination | March 27 |
| Last date for withdrawal of candidature | March 29 |
| Date Of Poll | April 18 |
| Date of Result | May 23 |
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List of States And Constituencies That Will Vote On April 18 In Phase II
| State (No. of seats voting in this phase) | Constituencies |
| Assam (5) | Karimganj, Silchar, autonomous district, Mangaldoi, Nawgong |
| Bihar (5) | Kishanganj, Katihar, Purnia, Bhagalpur, Banka |
| Chhattisgarh (3) | Rajnandgaon, Mahasamund, Kanker |
| Jammu And Kashmir (2) | Srinagar, Udhampur |
| Karnataka (14) | Udupi Chikmagalur, Hassan, Dakshina Kannada, Chitradurga, Tumkur, Mandya, Mysore, Chamarajanagar, Bangalore Rural, Bangalore North, Bangalore Central, Bangalore South, Chikkballapur, Kolar |
| Maharashtra (10) | Buldhana, Akola, Amravati, Hingoli, Nanded, Parbhani, Beed, Osmanabad, Latur, Solapur |
| Manipur (1) | Inner Manipur |
| Odisha (5) | Bargarh, Sundargarh, Bolangir, Kandhamal, Aska |
| Tamil Nadu (39) | Thiruvallur, Chennai North, Chennai South, Chennai Central, Sriperumbudur, Kancheepuram, Arakkonam, Vellore, Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri, Tiruvannamalai, Arani, Villupuram, Kallakurichi, Salem, Namakkal, Erode, Tiruppur, Nilgiris, Coimbatore, Pollachi, Dindigul, Karur, Tiruchirappalli, Perambalur, Cuddalore, Chidambaram, Mayiladuturai, Nagapattinam, Thanjavur, Sivaganga, Madurai, Theni, Virudhunagar, Ramanathapuram, Thoothukudi, Tenkasi, Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari |
| Tripura (1) | Tripura East |
| Uttar Pradesh (8) | Nagina, Amroha, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Hathras, Mathura, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri |
| West Bengal (3) | Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, Raiganj |
| Puducherry (1) | Puducherry |
All the 39 constituency seats of Tamil Nadu will got to poll on April 18. Lok Sabha Elections 2019 will take place across the country between April 11 and May 23 in seven phases. The election results will be announced on May 23.
In the last assembly elections which were held in 2014, Radhakrishnan T of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) had won the Lok Sabha election from the Virudhunagar seat defeating Vaiko of Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK). Radhakrishnan had won the Virudhunagar seat with 406,694 votes.
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