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1998 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu

January 24, 2023

The 1998 Indian general election polls in Tamil Nadu were held for 39 seats in the state. New elections were called when Indian National Congress (INC) left the United Front government led by I. K. Gujral, after they refused to drop the regional Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party from the government after the DMK was linked by an investigative panel to Sri Lankan separatists blamed for the killing of Rajiv Gandhi.[1] The result was a landslide victory for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) winning 29 seats, which helped result in Atal Bihari Vajpayee being sworn in as the 16th Prime Minister of India. J. Jayalalithaa and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, broke off from their long alliance with Indian National Congress and formed an alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party, by joining the National Democratic Alliance. This state proved to be very important in determining the prime minister, since the 18 seats of AIADMK proved valuable for BJP to hold power. That was short-lived, since the AIADMK left the alliance in less than a year, and BJP lost the vote of confidence resulting in fresh elections being called.

Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1998
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39 seats
  First party Second party
 
Leader J. Jayalalithaa M. Karunanidhi
Party AIADMK DMK
Alliance NDA United Front (India)
Seats won 30 9
Seat change 30 30
Popular vote 12,169,812 10,937,809
Percentage 45.08% 42.72%
Swing 42.18% 12.24%
1998 Election map (by constituencies)
Saffron = NDA and Red = UF

Seat allotments

Source: Frontline [2]

United Front

No.
 Party Election Symbol Leader Seats
1. Tamil Maanila Congress   G.K. Moopanar 20
2. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam   M. Karunanidhi 17
3. Communist Party of India   2
  • Note: Even though CPI(M) originally wanted to contest in support of the United Front, it decided to contest alone when only 1 seat (Coimbatore) was offered. After the fallout, CPM wanted to contest 6 seats in Tamil Nadu on its own, but eventually only contested 2 seats and decided to support DMK-TMC front in the other 37 seats. This was done to keep out the possibility of any vote splitting that might result in NDA gaining seats.[3]

National Democratic Alliance

Source: Indian Express[4]

No.
 Party Election Symbol Leader Seats
1. All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam   J. Jayalalithaa 23
2. Pattali Makkal Katchi   Dr. Ramdoss 5
3. Bharatiya Janata Party   K.N. Laxmanan 5
4. Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam   Vaiko 5
5. Janata Party Subramanian Swamy 1
Unregistered party, whose candidate ran as an independent
6. Thamizhaga Rajiv Congress   Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy 1

Congress alliance

Voting and results

Results by Alliance

 
Election map of results based on parties. Colours are based on the results table on the left
 
Election Map (Results reflected as %seats won by districts)
  AIADMK-BJP alliance won all the seats in this district

  AIADMK-BJP alliance won 67% of the seats (Vellore)

  DMK-TMC-CPI alliance won all the seats in this district
Summary of the 1998 February Lok Sabha election results in the state of Tamil Nadu
Alliance/Party Seats won Change† Popular vote Vote % Adj. %‡
NDA 30 +30 12,272,434 47.9%
AIADMK 18 +18 6,731,550 26.3% 46.9%
PMK 4 +4 1,548,976 6.0% 47.9%
BJP 3 +3 1,757,645 6.9%
MDMK 3 +3 1,602,504 6.3% 45.8%
JP 1 +1 266,202 1.0% 40.5%
IND 1 +1 365,557 1.4% 55.5%
UF 9 -30 10,937,809 42.7%
DMK 5 -12 5,140,266 20.1% 43.6%
TMC(M) 3 -17 5,169,183 20.2% 41.6%
CPI 1 -1 628,360 2.5%
INC+ 0 – 1,511,444 5.9%
INC 0 – 1,223,102 4.8%
MADMK 0 – 278,324 1.1% 14.2%
UCPI 0 – 10,018 0.03% 1.6%
Others 0 – 984,733 3.8%
CPI(M) 0 – 161,452 0.6%
IND 0 – 265,029 1.0%
Total 39 – 25,603,798 100% –

†: Seat change represents seats won in terms of the current alliances, which is considerably different from the last election.
‡: Vote % reflects the percentage of votes the party received compared to the entire electorate in Tamil Nadu that voted in this election. Adjusted (Adj.) Vote %, reflects the % of votes the party received per constituency that they contested.
Sources: Election Commission of India[5]


List of Elected MPs

Sl.No. Constituency Winner Party Alliance Margin Runner-up Party
1 Chennai North C. Kuppusami DMK UF 69,093 R. T. Sabapathy Mohan MDMK
2 Chennai Central Murasoli Maranc DMK UF 71,727 D. Jayakumar AIADMK
3 Chennai South T. R. Baaluc DMK UF 20,014 K. Jana Krishnamurthy BJP
4 Sriperumbudur K. Venugopal AIADMK NDA 23,795 T. Nagarathinam DMK
5 Chengalpattu Kanchi Panneerselvam AIADMK NDA 22,916 K. Parasuraman DMK
6 Arakkonam C. Gopal AIADMK NDA 49,488 A. M. Velu TMC(M)
7 Vellore N. T. Shanmugam PMK NDA 26,405 T. A. Mohammad Saqhy DMK
8 Tiruppattur D. Venugopalc DMK UF 274 S. Krishnamoorthy AIADMK
9 Vandavasi M. Durai PMK NDA 65,075 L. Balaraman TMC(M)
10 Tindivanam N. Ramachandran Gingee MDMK NDA 31,453 G. Venkataraman DMK
11 Cuddalore M. C. Dhamodaran AIADMK NDA 27,129 P. R. S. Venkatesan TMC(M)
12 Chidambaram R. Elumalai PMK NDA 7,955 V. Ganesan DMK
13 Dharmapuri K. Pary Mohan PMK NDA 99,427 P. Theertharaman TMC(M)
14 Krishnagiri K. P. Munisamy AIADMK NDA 49,349 D. R. Rajaram Naidu TMC(M)
15 Rasipuram V. Saroja AIADMK NDA 54,377 K. Kandasamy TMC(M)
16 Salem Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy IND/TRC NDA 135,880 R. Devadass TMC(M)
17 Tiruchengode Edappadi K. Palaniswami AIADMK NDA 104,809 K. P. Ramalingam DMK
18 Nilgiris M. Master Mathan BJP NDA 60,385 S. R. Balasubramanian TMC(M)
19 Gobichettipalayam V. K. Chinnasamy AIADMK NDA 114,642 N. Ramasamy DMK
20 Coimbatore C. P. Radhakrishnan BJP NDA 144,676 K. R. Subbian DMK
21 Pollachi M. Thiyagarajan AIADMK NDA 95,401 Kovai Thangam TMC(M)
22 Palani A. Ganeshamurthi MDMK NDA 27,437 S. K. Kaarvendhan TMC(M)
23 Dindigul Dindigul C. Sreenivasan AIADMK NDA 15,199 N. S. V. Chithan TMC(M)
24 Madurai Subramanian Swamy JP NDA 20,897 A. G. S. Rambabu TMC(M)
25 Periyakulam R. Muthiah AIADMK NDA 70,580 R. Gandhimathy DMK
26 Karur M. Thambidurai AIADMK NDA 43,673 K. Natrayan TMC(M)
27 Tiruchirappalli Rangarajan Kumaramangalam BJP NDA 11,455 L. Adaikalaraj TMC(M)
28 Perambalur Rajarethinam AIADMK NDA 60,436 A. Raja DMK
29 Mayiladuturai K. Krishnamoorthy TMC UF 42,456 P. D. Arulmozhi PMK
30 Nagapattinam M. Selvarasu CPI UF 131,303 K. Gopal AIADMK
31 Thanjavur S. S. Palanimanickamc DMK UF 48,204 L. Ganesan MDMK
32 Pudukkottai Raja Paramasivam AIADMK NDA 30,520 P. N. Siva DMK
33 Sivaganga P. Chidambaramc TMC UF 59,141 K. Kalimuthu AIADMK
34 Ramanathapuram V. Sathiamoorthy AIADMK NDA 24,092 S. P. Udayappan TMC(M)
35 Sivakasi Vaiko MDMK NDA 134,923 V. Alagirisamy CPI
36 Tirunelveli M. R. Kadambur Janarthanan AIADMK NDA 6,904 R. Sarath Kumar DMK
37 Tenkasi S. Murugesan AIADMK NDA 97,267 M. Arunachalam TMC(M)
38 Tiruchendur Ramarajan AIADMK NDA 46,855 R. Dhanushkodi Adithan TMC(M)
39 Nagercoil N. Dennisc TMC UF 29,185 Pon. Radhakrishnan BJP

c-indicates sitting/incumbent M.P. from previous Lok Sabha (1996–1998)

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Tamil Nadu

Source: The Tribune[6][7]

Cabinet Ministers

  • Note: R. Muthiah resigned in just 20 days in office, due to his assets coming into question by the high court in Madras.[8] In a year, cabinet ministers M. Thambidurai resigned along with M.R. Janarthanam, who was the replacement of R. Muthiah, as part of AIADMK's withdrawal from NDA, to start up fresh elections in 1999. Vazhappady Ramamurthy also refused to quit his cabinet ministership, and quit his relationship with AIADMK while keeping its relationship with NDA.[6]

Ministers of State (Independent charge)

Minister Party Lok Sabha Constituency/Rajya Sabha Portfolios
Dalit Elumalai PMK Chidambaram Minister of Health and Family Welfare

Ministers of State

See also

Bibliography

    1. ^ . 3 November 2012. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012.
    2. ^ Of Polls and Prediction
    3. ^ "Piqued CPM to stay away from Front in TN".
    4. ^ "Jaya grabs the lions share in TN".
    5. ^ "ECI: Statistical Report 1998" (PDF). Retrieved 14 June 2011.
    6. ^ a b "Rediff On The NeT: Elections '98: Finance for Sinha, defence for Fernandes". www.rediff.com.
    7. ^ "Rediff On The NeT Elections '98: Vajpayee shows a generous hand to Jayalalitha in new portfolio allocation". www.rediff.com.
    8. ^ "Rediff On The NeT: Union surface transport minister quits". www.rediff.com.

    External links

    • Website of Election Commission of India
    • Of Polls and Prediction

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The 1998 Indian general election polls in Tamil Nadu were held for 39 seats in the state New elections were called when Indian National Congress INC left the United Front government led by I K Gujral after they refused to drop the regional Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam DMK party from the government after the DMK was linked by an investigative panel to Sri Lankan separatists blamed for the killing of Rajiv Gandhi 1 The result was a landslide victory for the National Democratic Alliance NDA winning 29 seats which helped result in Atal Bihari Vajpayee being sworn in as the 16th Prime Minister of India J Jayalalithaa and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam broke off from their long alliance with Indian National Congress and formed an alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party by joining the National Democratic Alliance This state proved to be very important in determining the prime minister since the 18 seats of AIADMK proved valuable for BJP to hold power That was short lived since the AIADMK left the alliance in less than a year and BJP lost the vote of confidence resulting in fresh elections being called Indian general election in Tamil Nadu 1998 1996 February 1998 1999 39 seats First party Second party Leader J Jayalalithaa M KarunanidhiParty AIADMK DMKAlliance NDA United Front India Seats won 30 9Seat change 30 30Popular vote 12 169 812 10 937 809Percentage 45 08 42 72 Swing 42 18 12 24 1998 Election map by constituencies Saffron NDA and Red UF Contents 1 Seat allotments 1 1 United Front 1 2 National Democratic Alliance 1 3 Congress alliance 2 Voting and results 2 1 Results by Alliance 3 List of Elected MPs 4 Post election Union Council of Ministers from Tamil Nadu 4 1 Cabinet Ministers 4 2 Ministers of State Independent charge 4 3 Ministers of State 5 See also 6 Bibliography 7 External linksSeat allotments EditSource Frontline 2 United Front Edit No Party Election Symbol Leader Seats1 Tamil Maanila Congress G K Moopanar 202 Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam M Karunanidhi 173 Communist Party of India 2Note Even though CPI M originally wanted to contest in support of the United Front it decided to contest alone when only 1 seat Coimbatore was offered After the fallout CPM wanted to contest 6 seats in Tamil Nadu on its own but eventually only contested 2 seats and decided to support DMK TMC front in the other 37 seats This was done to keep out the possibility of any vote splitting that might result in NDA gaining seats 3 National Democratic Alliance Edit Source Indian Express 4 No Party Election Symbol Leader Seats1 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam J Jayalalithaa 232 Pattali Makkal Katchi Dr Ramdoss 53 Bharatiya Janata Party K N Laxmanan 54 Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Vaiko 55 Janata Party Subramanian Swamy 1Unregistered party whose candidate ran as an independent6 Thamizhaga Rajiv Congress Vazhappady K Ramamurthy 1Congress alliance Edit No Party Election Symbol Leader Seats1 Indian National Congress 352 MGR Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Su Thirunavukkarasar 33 United Communist Party of India Tha Pandian 1Voting and results EditResults by Alliance Edit Election map of results based on parties Colours are based on the results table on the left Election Map Results reflected as seats won by districts AIADMK BJP alliance won all the seats in this district AIADMK BJP alliance won 67 of the seats Vellore DMK TMC CPI alliance won all the seats in this district Summary of the 1998 February Lok Sabha election results in the state of Tamil Nadu Alliance Party Seats won Change Popular vote Vote Adj NDA 30 30 12 272 434 47 9 AIADMK 18 18 6 731 550 26 3 46 9 PMK 4 4 1 548 976 6 0 47 9 BJP 3 3 1 757 645 6 9 MDMK 3 3 1 602 504 6 3 45 8 JP 1 1 266 202 1 0 40 5 IND 1 1 365 557 1 4 55 5 UF 9 30 10 937 809 42 7 DMK 5 12 5 140 266 20 1 43 6 TMC M 3 17 5 169 183 20 2 41 6 CPI 1 1 628 360 2 5 INC 0 1 511 444 5 9 INC 0 1 223 102 4 8 MADMK 0 278 324 1 1 14 2 UCPI 0 10 018 0 03 1 6 Others 0 984 733 3 8 CPI M 0 161 452 0 6 IND 0 265 029 1 0 Total 39 25 603 798 100 Seat change represents seats won in terms of the current alliances which is considerably different from the last election Vote reflects the percentage of votes the party received compared to the entire electorate in Tamil Nadu that voted in this election Adjusted Adj Vote reflects the of votes the party received per constituency that they contested Sources Election Commission of India 5 List of Elected MPs EditSl No Constituency Winner Party Alliance Margin Runner up Party1 Chennai North C Kuppusami DMK UF 69 093 R T Sabapathy Mohan MDMK2 Chennai Central Murasoli Maranc DMK UF 71 727 D Jayakumar AIADMK3 Chennai South T R Baaluc DMK UF 20 014 K Jana Krishnamurthy BJP4 Sriperumbudur K Venugopal AIADMK NDA 23 795 T Nagarathinam DMK5 Chengalpattu Kanchi Panneerselvam AIADMK NDA 22 916 K Parasuraman DMK6 Arakkonam C Gopal AIADMK NDA 49 488 A M Velu TMC M 7 Vellore N T Shanmugam PMK NDA 26 405 T A Mohammad Saqhy DMK8 Tiruppattur D Venugopalc DMK UF 274 S Krishnamoorthy AIADMK9 Vandavasi M Durai PMK NDA 65 075 L Balaraman TMC M 10 Tindivanam N Ramachandran Gingee MDMK NDA 31 453 G Venkataraman DMK11 Cuddalore M C Dhamodaran AIADMK NDA 27 129 P R S Venkatesan TMC M 12 Chidambaram R Elumalai PMK NDA 7 955 V Ganesan DMK13 Dharmapuri K Pary Mohan PMK NDA 99 427 P Theertharaman TMC M 14 Krishnagiri K P Munisamy AIADMK NDA 49 349 D R Rajaram Naidu TMC M 15 Rasipuram V Saroja AIADMK NDA 54 377 K Kandasamy TMC M 16 Salem Vazhappady K Ramamurthy IND TRC NDA 135 880 R Devadass TMC M 17 Tiruchengode Edappadi K Palaniswami AIADMK NDA 104 809 K P Ramalingam DMK18 Nilgiris M Master Mathan BJP NDA 60 385 S R Balasubramanian TMC M 19 Gobichettipalayam V K Chinnasamy AIADMK NDA 114 642 N Ramasamy DMK20 Coimbatore C P Radhakrishnan BJP NDA 144 676 K R Subbian DMK21 Pollachi M Thiyagarajan AIADMK NDA 95 401 Kovai Thangam TMC M 22 Palani A Ganeshamurthi MDMK NDA 27 437 S K Kaarvendhan TMC M 23 Dindigul Dindigul C Sreenivasan AIADMK NDA 15 199 N S V Chithan TMC M 24 Madurai Subramanian Swamy JP NDA 20 897 A G S Rambabu TMC M 25 Periyakulam R Muthiah AIADMK NDA 70 580 R Gandhimathy DMK26 Karur M Thambidurai AIADMK NDA 43 673 K Natrayan TMC M 27 Tiruchirappalli Rangarajan Kumaramangalam BJP NDA 11 455 L Adaikalaraj TMC M 28 Perambalur Rajarethinam AIADMK NDA 60 436 A Raja DMK29 Mayiladuturai K Krishnamoorthy TMC UF 42 456 P D Arulmozhi PMK30 Nagapattinam M Selvarasu CPI UF 131 303 K Gopal AIADMK31 Thanjavur S S Palanimanickamc DMK UF 48 204 L Ganesan MDMK32 Pudukkottai Raja Paramasivam AIADMK NDA 30 520 P N Siva DMK33 Sivaganga P Chidambaramc TMC UF 59 141 K Kalimuthu AIADMK34 Ramanathapuram V Sathiamoorthy AIADMK NDA 24 092 S P Udayappan TMC M 35 Sivakasi Vaiko MDMK NDA 134 923 V Alagirisamy CPI36 Tirunelveli M R Kadambur Janarthanan AIADMK NDA 6 904 R Sarath Kumar DMK37 Tenkasi S Murugesan AIADMK NDA 97 267 M Arunachalam TMC M 38 Tiruchendur Ramarajan AIADMK NDA 46 855 R Dhanushkodi Adithan TMC M 39 Nagercoil N Dennisc TMC UF 29 185 Pon Radhakrishnan BJPc indicates sitting incumbent M P from previous Lok Sabha 1996 1998 Post election Union Council of Ministers from Tamil Nadu EditSource The Tribune 6 7 Cabinet Ministers Edit Minister Party Lok Sabha Constituency Rajya Sabha PortfoliosRangarajan Kumaramangalam BJP Tiruchirappalli Minister of Power and Minister of Parliamentary AffairsM Thambidurai AIADMK Karur Minister of Law Justice and Company AffairsR Muthiah AIADMK Periyakulam Minister of Surface TransportVazhappady Ramamurthy TRC Salem Minister of Petroleum and Natural GasNote R Muthiah resigned in just 20 days in office due to his assets coming into question by the high court in Madras 8 In a year cabinet ministers M Thambidurai resigned along with M R Janarthanam who was the replacement of R Muthiah as part of AIADMK s withdrawal from NDA to start up fresh elections in 1999 Vazhappady Ramamurthy also refused to quit his cabinet ministership and quit his relationship with AIADMK while keeping its relationship with NDA 6 Ministers of State Independent charge Edit Minister Party Lok Sabha Constituency Rajya Sabha PortfoliosDalit Elumalai PMK Chidambaram Minister of Health and Family WelfareMinisters of State Edit Minister Party Lok Sabha Constituency Rajya Sabha PortfoliosM R Kadambur Janarthanan AIADMK Tirunelveli Ministry of Personnel Public Grievances and PensionR K Kumar AIADMK Rajya Sabha Tamil Nadu Minister of FinanceSee also EditElections in Tamil NaduBibliography EditVolume I 1998 Indian general election 12th Lok Sabha Government Falls Indian Premier Quits Coalition Splits Amid Gandhi Assassination Debate The Washington Post HighBeam Research 3 November 2012 Archived from the original on 3 November 2012 Of Polls and Prediction Piqued CPM to stay away from Front in TN Jaya grabs the lions share in TN ECI Statistical Report 1998 PDF Retrieved 14 June 2011 a b Rediff On The NeT Elections 98 Finance for Sinha defence for Fernandes www rediff com Rediff On The NeT Elections 98 Vajpayee shows a generous hand to Jayalalitha in new portfolio allocation www rediff com Rediff On The NeT Union surface transport minister quits www rediff com External links EditWebsite of Election Commission of India CNN IBN Lok Sabha Election History Of Polls and Prediction Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1998 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu amp oldid 1130302558, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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