Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Election
Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Election
Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Election
2006
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Tamil Nadu legislative assembly election, 2006
Tamil Nadu, one of the states in South India, has an electorate of more than 46 million
people.
The thirteenth legislative assembly election, of Tamil Nadu was held on May 8, 2006.
It was held for all 234 constituencies to elect the government in the state of for the
following five years. The votes were counted three days later on May 11, 2006 and all the
results were out by the end of the day. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-led front won
the elections and its leader, M Karunanidhi was sworn in as Chief Minister. He is serving
his fifth term. 13th Assembly was instituted due to this election.
Contents
• 1 Polling
• 2 Political Parties and the Alliances
• 3 Voting and Results
o 3.1 Alliance wise results
o 3.2 Party wise results
o 3.3 Constituency wise results
• 4 See also
• 5 Footnotes
• 6 External links
Polling
51659 polling stations were set up for electorate, that sized up to 46,603,827 eligible
voters.
Political Parties and the Alliances
ST is short for Scheduled Tribe and SC is short for Scheduled Castes, implying that the
seat is reserved for that community.
Tamil Nadu has a remarkable history of being dominated by the local parties, DMK or
AIADMK, while the national parties have a strong presence in other states. The parties
have resorted to forming alliances in the last few elections to take on each sides for
power.
Striking changes in the alliances included the swap of MDMK from DMK led
Democratic Progressive Alliance to AIADMK led alliance. While Dalit Panthers of India
joined the AIADMK alliance, all other major parties in the fray such as PMK, Congress,
CPIM and CPI, aligned themselves with the DMK party.
There were two notable new parties — DMDK formed in September 2005 by actor-
turned-politician Vijaykanth, and Lok Paritran formed by Indian Institutes of Technology
graduates in February 2006. Both contested alone in this elections.
The contest was between two major alliances in a seat-sharing agreement, the AIADMK
alliance and the DMK alliance. These arch rivals had a face-off in 106 seats.
Exit Polls [1] predicted a 157-167 seats in favour of the DMK alliance, while the
AIADMK alliance was expected to get 64-74 seats in the assembly.
Before the 2009 Lok Sabha Elections, the Pattali Makkal Katchi left the DMK, citing
differences with its leader M. Karunanidhi, and joined the AIADMK, and the Third
Front.
The split results paved way for the formation of the new coalition government led by
DMK chief, the 82-year old veteran politician Dr.M Karunanidhi, becoming the Chief
Minister of Tamil Nadu for the fifth time, with the Congress unconditionally supporting
his claim for Chief Ministership and government formation.
Due to the loss of key allies after the previous election, the ADMK, ended up losing both
the 2004 Lok Sabha Election and the 2006 State Assembly Elections, to DMK led
coalition that consisted of DMK, and former allies of ADMK, INC, left parties (CPI,
CPI(M)) and PMK.
• = This is not the MGP contesting in TN, but another party borrowing the election
symbol of MGP
The following table lists the winners and margin of victory in all constituencies.[5]
Notes: