Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 2014

Indian general election, 2014 (Tamil Nadu)

← 2009 24 April 2014
39 seats
Opinion polls
Turnout	73.67%
First party Second party   Leader J. Jayalalithaa Narendra Modi Party AIADMK BJP Alliance NDA Seats won 37 2 (PMK 1 BJP 1) Seat change 28 2 Popular vote 17,983,168 7,523,829 Percentage 44.3% 18.5% Swing 21.4% 4.2%   Third party Fourth party   Leader M. Karunanidhi Rahul Gandhi Party DMK INC Alliance DPA UPA Seats won 0 0 Seat change 18 8 Popular vote 10,887,347 1,751,123 Percentage 26.8% 4.3% Swing 0.7% 10.7%
Result by Constituencies Green = AIADMK and Orange = NDA

The Indian general election, 2014 polls in Tamil Nadu were held for 39 seats in the state on 24 April 2014.

The total voter strength of Tamil Nadu is 53,752,682. The voting turnout in the election was 73.67%.

The results of the elections were declared on 16 May 2014.

As the term of 15th Lok Sabha ended in May 2014, Election Commission of India decided to conduct the election for the next Lok Sabha in April–May 2014.

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) under M. Karunanidhi was part of both (United Progressive Alliance) UPA government until it withdrew support on 19 March 2013 over Sri Lanka issues. DMK suspended their south zone organisational secretary M. K. Alagiri for violating party discipline and later expelled him from the party in March 2014.

In October 2013, Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) formed an alliance with smaller parties and caste groups as alternative to Dravidian parties and named it as Social Democratic Alliance (SDA). SDA announced candidates for 10 seats and started their campaign. Gandhiya Makkal Iyakkam leader Tamilaruvi Manian played a significant role to bring parties into the BJP led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) as alternative to Congress led UPA.

In the Indian National Congress (INC), shipping minister G. K. Vasan and finance minister P. Chidambaram were opt out from the election.

The election process are carried out by the state election commission headed by Praveen Kumar and for the first time, Section 144 of CrPC used in the election for 36 hours before polling to prevent cash distribution to bribe voters. As of 23 April, commission seized 390 million (390 million) of money in the state.