Coimbatore Election Results 2024: Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai started trailing after maintaining initial lead against DMK's Ganapathy Rajkumar in the Coimbatore seat in Tamil Nadu as the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha Elections is underway.
Coimbatore is one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu which has 39 parliamentary seats. The Coimbatore seat comprises 6 Assembly segments including Palladam, Sulur, Kavundampalayam, Coimbatore(north), Coimbatore(south), Singanallur. The constituency is a GENERAL seat. The CPIM, the BJP are the main parties in the constituency. In this election, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fielded party state unit chief K Annamalai from the high-profile seat. He is up against DMK’s Ganapathi Rajkumar.
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Coimbatore Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Key parties and candidates
The Coimbatore is one of the high-profile seats in the South in this election as BJP Tamil Nadu president K Annamalai has been fielded from the seat as the party eyes making inroads in the region. He is up against AIADMK’s Singai Ramachandran, DMK’s Ganapathi Rajkumar, Naam Tamilar Katchi’s Kalamani.
Coimbatore Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Date of polls
The constituency went to Lok Sabha polls in the first phase of the general elections on April 19.
Coimbatore Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Date of results
The results of the Coimbatore Lok Sabha Elections will be declared on June 4.
Coimbatore Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Voter turnout
The Lok Sabha seat witnessed a voter turnout of 64.89 per cent, according to the Election Commission data.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Nagarajan, P. from AIADMK won the seat and was polled 431,717 votes with a vote share of 36.69 per cent. BJP candidate Radhakrishnan, C.P. got 389,701 votes (33.12 per cent) and was the runner-up. Nagarajan, P. defeated Radhakrishnan, C.P. by a margin of 42,016 votes.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Natarajan. P.R from CPIM won the seat with a margin of 179,143 votes. Natarajan P.R was polled 571,150 votes with a vote share of 46.00 per cent and defeated Radhakrishnan. C.P from BJP who got 392,007 votes (31.34 per cent).
