The city is gearing up for the Lok Sabha Election 2024 to be held on April 19. Chennai City comprises 3 constituencies – Chennai North, South, and Central.
Chennai South Constituency comprises localities maintained by Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) and Tambaram Corporation, which are the following assembly constituencies: Velachery, Sholinganallur, Mylapore, Saidapet, Virugambakkam, and T.Nagar. The constituency boasts a total of 20,23,133 electors including 10,00,851 male, 10,21,818 female and 464 third gender electors. They will be casting their vote across 1922 polling stations.
List of Contesting candidates
Candidates of major national and state political parties
- T.Sumathy (alias) Thamizhachi Thangapandian – Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam;
- Dr.Tamilisai Soundararajan – Bharatiya Janata Party;
- G.P. Robert – Bahujan Samaj Party;
- Dr.J.Jayavardhan – All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam;
- A.K.D. Ellappan – Mahathma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam;
- R.Kanchana – Tamizhaga Murpokku Makkal Katchi;
- Kuttimani. S – Veerath Thiyagi Viswanatha doss Thozhilalar Katchi;
- Sasi Rekha – Naadalum Makkal Katchi;
- P.Sekar – Thakkam Katchi;
- S.Tamilchelvi – Naam Tamilar Katchi;
- N.V.Damodaran – National Maha Sabha Party;
- Balaji G.Mangadu – Aravor Munnetra Kazhagam;
- M.Munnuswamy – Viroke Vir Indian Party
- M.G.Ramu – Jebamani Janata
- Farmer Jayaraman S.K.J – Desiya Makkal Sakthi Katcho
Independent Candidates
- M.Azarutheen
- R.Ravichandran
- K.Kannan
- Karthik Murthy
- J.Sathish
- P.Satheesh Kumar
- V.Sivakumar
- V.P.Suresh
- I. Davidsingh
- Dayalan. R
- B.Dinesh Kumar.
- R.Devendran
- N.Narayanaswamy
- A.Babu
- Parthiban.S
- R.Balaji
- A.Punnudurai
- S.Manimaran
- P.Murugan
- R.Yogeshwaran
- E.Ramesh
- G.Rameshbabu
- V.P.Ravikkaran
- E.Ravendran
- S.Rajasekaran
- Vijirathinam.M