page_title: Elections in Tamil Nadu
section_title: Lok Sabha elections
hierarchical_section_title: Elections in Tamil Nadu / Lok Sabha elections
caption_attribution_description: English: Made a stacked bar graph of all lok sabha elections in TN from 1957-2011. Also, Others (INC) represents other parties supporting INC or INC(I) as part of pre-poll alliance and Others (BJP) represents other parties supporting BJP as part of pre-poll alliance.
context_page_description: Elections in Tamil Nadu are conducted every five years to elect the State assembly and its share of members to the Lok Sabha. There are 234 assembly constituencies and 39 Lok Sabha constituencies. The state has conducted 15 assembly elections and 16 Lok Sabha elections since independence.
context_section_description: 17 Lok Sabha elections have been contested in India since independence starting 1951. The elections held in Tamil Nadu are listed below.
  Note: In 1967, DMK and its 25 newly elected MPs supported the Congress, under Indira Gandhi after the election.
  Note: Even though ADMK supported and campaigned with Congress for the 1977 election, after the loss nationally, ADMK and its newly elected 17 MPs supported Morarji Desai and the Janata Party and its alliance, giving them 20 seats (ADMK, NCO) while the other 17 seats (INC, CPI) and 2 seats (DMK) were in the opposition with Indira Gandhi.
caption: Stacked bar graph with number of seats won in the Lok Sabha elections from 1957-2009
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