ADAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra KazhagamState partyADMK
Contested 8 general elections between 1996 and 2024, winning 75 Lok Sabha seats from 216 candidacies. 616 assembly seats won in 6 states.
Lok Sabha overall · since 1996
8
Elections contested
75
Seats won, all time
37
Best result (2014)
1.8%
Avg. vote share
216 candidacies fielded in total
Latest (2024)
0
36 contested · 1.39% of the national vote
Strike rate, all time
34.7%
seats won per seat contested
Seats won
Across every general election contested, Lok Sabha
Results Overview
- Won75 (35%)
- Lost141 (65%)
National vote share
Share of all valid votes cast in India, not of seats contested
A regional party fighting 40 seats out of 543 is capped at a low national share however well it does. Read this line against the seats chart above, not on its own.
Key highlights
- Best-ever result was 37 seats in 2014, on 3.27% of the national vote.
- At the 2024 election it contested 36 seats and won 0, a 0% strike rate.
- Strongest constituency is THENI, Tamil Nadu, won 2 times, most recently in 2019.
- Holds a state assembly record in 6 states, with 616 assembly seats won overall.
Totals
Across 8 general elections the party has polled 6.68 cr votes and lost 14 deposits. It has won 616 assembly seats across 29 state elections. Machine-readable at /api/parties/admk.

