Chennai: In the 38 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu, DMK registered a thumping win with victory in 23 constituencies. Congress, which is in alliance with the Congress in Tamil Nadu, won eight seats. Thus, the DMK-Congress have swept 30 out of 38 seats in Tamil Nadu while AIADMK and CPI(M) won two each.
In Puducherry, the Congress has won the lone seat in the Union Territory.
Counting for 38 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu and one seat in Puducherry begun at 8 am on Thursday.
Eight hundred and twenty two candidates were in the fray from Tamil Nadu while 18 candidates contested from Puducherry. The main battle in Tamil Nadu was between AIADMK-BJP and DMK-Congress. This was the first major election in Tamil Nadu without the two stalwarts – J Jayalalithaa and M Karunanidhi.
In Puducherry, the All India NR Congress (AINRC) and the Congress were the only two parties.
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# Super Rajinikanth congratulates PM Modi on BJP’s victory. The saffron party hit triple century by Thursday noon.
Respected dear @narendramodi ji
hearty congratulations … You made it !!! God bless.— Rajinikanth (@rajinikanth) May 23, 2019
# #TamilNadu: Celebrations outside DMK headquarters in Chennai; According to Official EC trends, DMK is leading on 22 seats pic.twitter.com/rWYr7DfBjQ
— ANI (@ANI) May 23, 2019
# Celebrations have begun at DMK office in Chennai as election result are announced.
# Congress winning the lone seat in Puducherry; Ve Vaithilingam leads, AINRC’s Narayanasamy Kesavan trailing.
# Read full report on Tamil Nadu and Puducherry election trends.
# DMK leading in 22 seats, Congress in 1 in Tamil Nadu.
# Congress’ Ve Vaithilingam leading from Puducherry.
# S Jagathrakshakan of DMK leading from Arakkonam seat in Tamil Nadu.
# DMK-Congress has taken a lead by 4 more votes, making it 16 while BJP’s tally is now 4.
# DMK–Congress leads in 12 seats, BJP in 3.
# Counting of votes will be done in 45 centres across the state, with over 17,000 polling staff and 45,000 police personnel deployed.
# The Vellore Lok Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu did not go to polls after the Election Commission cancelled voting here due to allegations of use of money power.
# Most of the exit polls have predicted that Congress-DMK will get close to 27-30 seats in Tamil Nadu while the BJP-AIADMK alliance will 7-9 seats.
# The final results will be considered after tallying the Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips with five EVMs per assembly segments.
# Watch live streaming of Lok Sabha election result 2019 of 38 seats in Tamil Nadu and one seat in Puducherry on mobile, desktop on Zee News.
Source: Zee News