Chennai had the highest no. of voters who used the option of 49-O – 3,407, followed by Coimbatore district with 3,061 voters. Kanniyakumari District has the least no. of voters opting . . . → Read More: 24824 voters opted for 49-O]]> A total of 24,824 voters opted for 49-O in the elections in Tamil Nadu. This is a seemly small number of the total votes cast (3,67,53,114).

Chennai had the highest no. of voters who used the option of 49-O – 3,407, followed by Coimbatore district with 3,061 voters. Kanniyakumari District has the least no. of voters opting for 49-O = 170.

But the credit goes to GUDALUR for being the constituency with the highest no. of voters using 49-O option = 787, followed by SINGANALLUR with 646 voters.

6 constituencies had no voters exercising 49-O option (NEYVELI, RISHIVANDIYAM, RAJAPALAYAM, SRIVILLIPUTHUR, VIRUDHUNAGAR & ARUPPUKKOTTAI.

No correlation with voter turnout and 49-O stats.

Full details at Election Commission Website – Click Here

The smallest constituency in terms of voters count KILVELUR in Nagappatinam District has emerged on top as the best polling constituency with 91.89% of votes polled. Hats Off to the citizens of the constituency.

Chennai as usual lags . . . → Read More: Polling Stats]]> The final voting statistics for Tamil Nadu have been declared. Overall 78.12% of votes have been polled in the state.

The smallest constituency in terms of voters count KILVELUR in Nagappatinam District has emerged on top as the best polling constituency with 91.89% of votes polled. Hats Off to the citizens of the constituency.

Chennai as usual lags the rest of the state by being in the bottom of the vote polled. Only 68% of Chennaites came out to vote across the 16 constituencies in the state. Only 3 constituencies in Chennai crossed the 70% mark – DR.RADHAKRISHNAN NAGAR (72.4%), ROYAPURAM (70.64%) & SAIDAPET (70.33%).

Among Constituencies out of 234 constituencies only 25 polled less than 70%. 16 of these 25 are in Chennai (13) & it’s suburbs (3 – Alandur, Tambaram, Shozhinganallur).

Stats as below:

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Harbour Contituency is yet again the constituency with the lowest percentage of votes polled.

Only 2 districts in the state polled less than 70% – CHENNAI (68%) & KANNIYAKUMARI (68.93%).

A good 15 out of 32 districts polled more than 80% with KARUR topping at 86.06%. 12 districts polled between 75% & 80%.

Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar Consitutuency in Chennai has the highest no. of candidates (31), followed by Kolathur (27) where M.K.Stalin is contesting & Bodinayakanur (25).

Total of 16 constituencies across the state have more than 16 Candidates each resulting in more than 1 ballot unit. Each Ballot . . . → Read More: Candidate Count]]> The final count of contesting candidate in each constituency is as below.

Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar Consitutuency in Chennai has the highest no. of candidates (31), followed by Kolathur (27) where M.K.Stalin is contesting & Bodinayakanur (25).

Total of 16 constituencies across the state have more than 16 Candidates each resulting in more than 1 ballot unit. Each Ballot unit can list max. of 16 candidates. 7 out of the 16 are in Chennai.

Nagapattinam Consitituency has the lowest no. of candidates (4), followed by Avanashi, Gudalur, Kurinjipadi, Poonamalle & Vaniyambadi with 5 candidates each.

29 Constituencies have 10 Candidates each, while 27 constituencies have 11 Candidates each.

Chennai has the highest no. of candidates among districts (274) among 16 constituencies.  Ariyalur has the lowest no. of candidates (18) among 2 consitituencies.

A total of 136 women are constesting

Details as below:

Does it mean the “Vote Free”  zone where the most of the people are opting not to vote?

Does it mean “Vote For Free” –  people are voting for the freebies?

Ok…Lets classify as following..

1. Vote Free People – Who does not opt to vote.

2. Vote for Free People – Who vote for . . . → Read More: Vote Free]]> “Vote Free”… what does it mean?

Does it mean the “Vote Free”  zone where the most of the people are opting not to vote?

Does it mean “Vote For Free” –  people are voting for the freebies?

Ok…Lets classify as following..

1. Vote Free People – Who does not opt to vote.

2. Vote for Free People – Who vote for freebies/money etc.

Vote Free People:

I always see them complaining about the government..they talk about 2G scam..everyday..
But when i ask them have you booked your tickets(Talking about the people working in corporates) to your native to vote? Mostly the reply is ‘No’  and they continue to complain..No wonder why around 40% of the votes are not polled.So what is the point? Even though, they have been given the leave with salary, they do not want to take a effort once in 5 years to vote. I would say they are equally responsible of the corruption,etc they complain about. Instead of teaching the children in schools to be in attention for the national anthem, we can teach the importance of the election and voting. The latter would surely benefit the nation.

2. Vote for Freebies people:
Since 2006, there has been a new trend set by the Tamilnadu politicians..thats giving freebies.Yes..its an important move if the very good standard of education and medical services which are the basic essential services are offered free.But its a kind of marketing of the product ‘Begging’ as ‘Freebies’. But again, if you talk about these freebies with the people who are running a high-middle class life in the city..they are so aggressive..they are all working in a private sectors / corporates. But they usually forget about themselves..As you all know, the private companies offer lot of ‘Freebies’ in the name of ‘Employee benefit’.
For example, they are offered a free coffee in their company, do you think, they are not affordable to buy a coffee which costs around 10 rs… or else how about giving the amount as the added component in the salary..no..this will not work if you know the human psychology.So the point is, everybody in this world is enjoying the ‘Freebies’ in the name of what we are comfortable with. So why we are against the ‘Freebies’? Because the ‘Freebies’ are used to misguide the people to vote in favor of a specific political party. OK. Who was held responsible for this? The answer may be bitter..but we have to accept that..that is me and you. The Forward Community( When i say this it means who are all financially, educationally healthy), was not caring about the rest who should have been brought up together. Its like one of our children who is unnoticed or not given attention is used by the miscreants. If you visualize the whole society as the family, you can better understand this. So the answer is so simple…We can not change the people overnight..the change has to happen from the root level..It may take years..but we have to start as soon as possible.

Why the politicians do corruption?

Because they belong to us..may be not so pleasant answer to us. But its the truth. You all might have come across the traffic police who asked you bribe, for not to file a case against you. We all complain about them.. But have we ever asked them to file a case instead of bribing them?
We have violated the traffic rules..which supposed to be followed by us. The traffic police has violated the rule of filing a case. Here both parties have violated the rules. But our fingers are pointing only the traffic police. The same happens when we point our finger towards the politician. The amount of violation happens based on what we are. We all know what we do to save tax. If we happen to be a politician, we may be even outperform the current ones. So again we have to start from the root level.

Note: I request you all to share your thoughts / perceptions about this article. Because i always believe that there is an better thing. Help me enrich my knowledge by leaving a comment.

Read this website for details on how EVMs can be possibily tampered with . . . → Read More: EVMs – are they fool-proof?]]> There hase been doubts raised in the previous elections in 2009 that EVMs have been tampered with. But Election Commission rubbished such possibilities.

Read this website for details on how EVMs can be possibily tampered with – http://indiaevm.org/

Inspite of the crack down by the Election Commission we all know that money distribution & bully happen on the sly.

What can we do about it?

1. . . . → Read More: Clean Up Elections]]> We all complain how bad politics is now and how elections are won on money, muscle power and proper candidates do not contest and if they do, they are not elected.

Inspite of the crack down by the Election Commission we all know that money distribution & bully happen on the sly.

What can we do about it?

1. Educate people around us about the need for clean & fair elections

2. Educate people about the need to look long-term and not to be tempted by money for votes or towards freebies

3. Educate people about background & profile of candidates in your constituency

4. Complain to authorities if you come across any malpractices. You can take a photo and upload it to your facebook a/c or send to any newspaper by email. You can contact

5. Propogate the importance of vote – you can just speak to your friends & relatives – or email them reminding about the elections. Ensure all people you know have voted on Election Day.

6. Educate people about the 49-O option

We can do a lot of things, remember the power of crowd, when all work together we can accomplish the process of cleaning politics.

In case of Independent candidate, there must be 10 proposers and all must be from the same . . . → Read More: Candidate must be listed of electoral Rolls]]> To contest in Assembly Elections, a party’s candidate must have his/her name in electoral rolls of any assembly constituency in the state.  The proposer must also have his/her name included in electoral rolls of any assembly constituency in the state.

In case of Independent candidate, there must be 10 proposers and all must be from the same consitituency from where the candidate intends to contest.