Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam
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Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam
தேசிய முற்போக்கு திராவிடக் கழகம் |
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| Abbreviation | DMDK |
| Leader | Vijayakanth |
| President | Vijayakanth |
| Chairperson | Vijayakanth |
| Founder | Vijayakanth |
| Founded | 14 September 2005 |
| Headquarters | Koyambedu, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Ideology |
Secularism Social Democracy Populism Conservatism |
| Political position | Centre-Right |
| ECI Status | State Party |
| Alliance | NDA (2014–2016) |
| National convener | Vijayakanth |
| Election symbol | |
 Nagara |
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Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) (English: National Progressive Dravidian Federation) is a regional political party formed by Tamil film actor Vijayakanth in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, along the lines of the regional Dravidian parties, on 14 September 2005 at Madurai. The party head office is in Koyambedu, Chennai.
This party contested in all 234 seats in the state elections in May 2006 with Vijayakanth contesting in Vridhachalam. The party polled almost 30 lakh votes (a total of about a 10% share). All the candidates of the DMDK, with the sole exception of Vijayakanth, lost the elections in 2006. In by-elections to Madurai Central assembly constituency, DMDK secured around 17,000 votes, which was 2,000 votes less than All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK). DMDK was also able to secure a large number of seats in Local Body elections. Vijaykanth and his party contested in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls as an independent party in all 39 constituencies in the state, winning no seats. The party won 29 seats in the 2011 assembly election and became the official opposition party with Vijayakanth as the Opposition Leader.
DMDK contested all 39 seats independently in Tamil Nadu in the 15th Lok Sabha election and lost all of them. The party, however, made strong inroads in the heartland of Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK). The party polled 30.73 lakh votes of the total of 3.02 crore valid votes polled in the state representing roughly a vote share of 10.09%. This is higher than the 8.38% vote share polled by him during the 2006 assembly election. It polled more than one lakh votes in nine constituencies, more than 75,000 in 19 constituencies and more than 50,000 in 35 constituencies including Puducherry.
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