GEN · Tamil Nadu
Virudhunagar
Manicka Tagore (INC) won by 15,764 votes (2.1%).
- Electors
- 9,92,051
- Votes polled
- 7,68,609
- Valid votes
- 7,67,198
- Turnout
- 77.5%
- NOTA
- 0
- Polling date
- 2009-04-16
Margin vs 2009 national median: 2.1% (median 7.0%). Back to Tamil Nadu · 2009 national · Target seats
Seat health
Margin band, turnout swing, NOTA, and history for campaign defence / attack reads.
Knife-edge (<2%)Party held vs 2019
- Margin · 2024
- 0.4%(-14.2%)
- Turnout
- 70.7%(-2.8%)
- NOTA
- 0.9%
- Top-2 squeeze
- 72.8%
Winning margin over time · Virudhunagar
Candidates
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manicka TagoreWinner | INC | 3,07,187 | 40.0% |
| 2 | Vaiko | MDMK | 2,91,423 | 38.0% |
| 3 | Pandiarajan K | DMDK | 1,25,229 | 16.3% |
| 4 | Karthik M | BJP | 17,336 | 2.3% |
| 5 | Kanagaraj V | BSP | 8,198 | 1.1% |
| 6 | Jawaharlal S.L | IND | 3,112 | 0.4% |
| 7 | Dhanushkodi M | IND | 3,019 | 0.4% |
| 8 | Padmanaban N | IND | 2,313 | 0.3% |
| 9 | Nambusamy P | IND | 1,887 | 0.2% |
| 10 | Kannan S | IND | 1,810 | 0.2% |
| 11 | Vijayan S | IND | 1,486 | 0.2% |
| 12 | Karunanidhi A | IND | 1,219 | 0.2% |
| 13 | Selvam D | IND | 919 | 0.1% |
| 14 | Sivakumar M.A | IND | 891 | 0.1% |
| 15 | Sethuraj J | IND | 869 | 0.1% |
| 16 | Sivanmani P | IND | 755 | 0.1% |
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