The Lok Sabha constituencies, falling in the Cauvery delta region of the State, have always recorded higher turnout than the State’s average, since the delimitation in 2008.
Four Lok Sabha elections have taken place in the last 16 years, including Friday’s (April 19) polling. On all the occasions — in 2009, 2014, 2019 and 2024 — the turnout of Karur, Mayiladuthurai, Perambalur, and Chidambaram, was higher than the overall average of the State. Dindigul, in the southern region, was another constituency that scored ahead of the State’s average, all the time.
This is one of the main findings of a study of the voter turnout data, in one third of the total number of 39 constituencies, in the State. In addition to the five constituencies, eight others — South Chennai, Sriperumbudur, Vellore, Dharmapuri, Nilgiris, Coimbatore, Madurai and Tenkasi — were chosen for the study. Chidambaram, Nilgiris and Tenkasi are the constituencies reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC).
