Nilgiris is one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu. The state has 39 parliamentary seats. The Nilgiris seat comprises 6 Assembly segments including Bhavanisagar, Udhagamandalam, Gudalur, Coonoor, Mettuppalayam, Avanashi(sc). The constituency is a SC seat. The DMK, the ADMK are the main parties in the constituency. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Raja, A. from DMK won the seat with a margin of 205,823 votes. Raja, A. was polled 547,832 votes with a vote share of 54.00 % and defeated Thiyagarajan, M. from ADMK who got 342,009 votes (33.83 %). In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Gopalakrishnan, C. from AIADMK won the seat and was polled 463,700 votes with a vote share of 49.67%. DMK candidate Raja, A. got 358,760 votes (38.43 %) and was the runner-up.Gopalakrishnan, C. defeated Raja, A. by a margin of 104,940 votes.
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Several Bollywood celebrities including Aamir Khan and Ranbir Kapoor were spotted at the polling booth in Mumbai, who cast their votes in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Scroll down to read more.
Phoolan Devi won her first Lok Sabha election on the ticket of Samajwadi Party from Mirzapur constituency in 1996. Later, she lost the seat to BJP's Virendra Singh in 1998 general elections. In 1999, she again won the seat and held it till her assassination on July 25, 2001.
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