MDMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra KazhagamState partyMDMK
Contested 7 general elections between 1996 and 2024, winning 13 Lok Sabha seats from 51 candidacies. 7 assembly seats won in 2 states.
Lok Sabha overall · since 1996
7
Elections contested
13
Seats won, all time
4
Best result (1999)
0.3%
Avg. vote share
51 candidacies fielded in total
Latest (2024)
1
1 contested · 0.08% of the national vote
Strike rate, all time
25.5%
seats won per seat contested
Seats won
Across every general election contested, Lok Sabha
Results Overview
- Won13 (25%)
- Lost38 (75%)
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 4 seats in 1999, on 0.45% of the national vote.
- At the 2024 election it contested 1 seats and won 1, a 100% strike rate.
- Strongest constituency is SIVAKASI, Tamil Nadu, won 3 times, most recently in 2004.
- Holds a state assembly record in 2 states, with 7 assembly seats won overall.
Totals
Across 7 general elections the party has polled 92.1 lakh votes and lost 26 deposits. It has won 7 assembly seats across 8 state elections. Machine-readable at /api/parties/mdmk.
