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Sivaganga Lok Sabha constituency sees a 40.15% voter turnout at 1 pm
KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)
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Summary
The Sivaganga parliamentary seat has been a Congress stronghold and former finance minister P. Chidambaram has been a seven-time MP from here.
In the Sivaganga Lok Sabha constituency, the voter turnout stood at 40.15% until 1:00 pm as polling commenced for the first phase of General Elections, covering 102 seats across 12 states and union territories, starting at 7 am on Friday, April 19.
The Sivaganga constituency, a Congress bastion, is one of the 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu. The Sivaganga electorate has repeatedly voted for the grand old party, with former finance minister and veteran Congress leader P Chidambaram representing the seat seven times in the lower house of the Indian Parliament. His son Karti Chidambaram made his electoral debut from this seat in 2014 and lost. However, he won his maiden Lok Sabha elections five years later.
Voting date
Sivaganga will go to polls in the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls on April 19.
List of candidates
With Karti Chidambaram looking for his second stint as an MP, here’s a look at candidates contesting against him:
| Name of the Candidate | Party |
| Karti P. Chidambaram | Indian National Congress |
| Xavierdass A. | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| Dhevanathan Yadav T | Bhartiya Janata Party |
| Ranjith Kumar Balaswamy | Bahujan Samaj Party |
| V Ezhilarasi | Naam Tamilar Katchi |
| Thillaivasagam M | Vidiyalai Thedum Indhiyargal Party |
| Ashok Kumar K | Independent |
| Kalaiselvam K | Independent |
| Karthick C | Independent |
2019 Result
In 2019, Karti Chidambaram got an unprecedented 52.36% of the total votes, bettering his nearest candidate by a margin of almost 3.33 lakhs.
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| INC | Karti Chidambaram | 566,104 (52.36%) |
| BJP | H Raja | 233, 860 (21.63%) |
| AMMK | V Pandi | 122, 534 (11.33%) |
| NTK | V Sakthi Priya | 72,240 (6.68%) |
| MNM | Kavingnar Snekan | 22,931 (2.12%) |
| NOTA | None of the above | 9,283 (0.86%) |
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