DMK’s Dayanidhi Maran Wins Central Chennai Constituency in Tamil Nadu

Chennai Central Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 LIVE: Vote counting for the Chennai Central  Lok Sabha seat will begin at 8 AM. While all 39 seats of Tamil Nadu will be closely monitored, Chennai Central will be in the spotlight as the constituency will face  a contest between Dayanidhi Maran (DMK) and Vinoj P Selvam, a state secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).The voting for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Chennai Central occurred on April 19. 

Chennai Central Lok Sabha Election Result 2024: Here Are The LIVE Updates

•  As per the latest trends, DMK is leading in all three constituencies, DMK is leading in Chennai Central. 

• The counting of votes to began at 8 AM

Chennai Central all set for contest between BJP and DMK

A DMK bastion, Chennai Central is one of the smallest Lok Sabha constituencies in India with around 13.5 lakh voters. 

There were 11 Lok Sabha elections from 1977 to 2014 and the DMK secured victory seven times and the Congress three times. 

But in 2014, S.R. Vijayakumar of AIADMK defeated DMK senior leader Dayanidhi Maran by 45,841 votes, winning the seat for the first time. However, in the Lok Sabha elections of 2019, Maran came back and won by nearly 4.5 lakh votes, defeating PMK candidate S.R. Sam Paul.

In 2024, an intriguing battle is unleashed here, as the BJP has fielded Vinoj P. Selvam, who seems to be a strong opponent to Maran. The other candidates here—Parthasarathy from Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) and Karthikeyan from Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK)—are not seen as major opponents at this point.