In the 2016 Tamil Nadu Vidhan Sabha election, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) contested 188 constituencies and won 0 seats. Across these constituencies, BJP candidates received 12,28,704 votes, accounting for 3.55% of the votes cast in the constituencies it contested. Across all 234 Vidhan Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu, BJP secured 2.84% vote share.
| BJP Overall performance | Result |
|---|---|
| Constituencies contested | 188 |
| Seats won | 0 |
| Total votes received | 12,28,704 |
| Vote share in contested constituencies | 3.55% |
| Overall vote share | 2.84% |
The table below lists BJP candidates, their total votes, vote share within each constituency, and final position. Select a constituency to explore the complete election results.
| Constituency | Candidate | Position | Total Votes | Constituency Vote Share (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alandur | Sathyanarayanan, Dr. S. | 3 | 12,806 | 5.9 |
| Alangulam | S.V.Anburaj | 4 | 4,660 | 2.41 |
| Ambasamudram | V. Sasikala | 4 | 4,711 | 2.75 |
| Ambattur | Devarajan C | 5 | 9,563 | 4.16 |
| Ambur | Venkatesan,K. | 5 | 5,760 | 3.58 |
| Anaikattu | Vijayakumar. K | 5 | 1,750 | 0.96 |
| Andipatti | Chakkaravarthi.R | 4 | 3,465 | 1.74 |
| Anna Nagar | Suresh K | 3 | 8,832 | 5.19 |
| Anthiyur | Mohankumar P G | 6 | 1,962 | 1.16 |
| Arakkonam | C.Vijayan | 6 | 2,021 | 1.22 |
| Arani | Gopi, P | 6 | 1,304 | 0.62 |
| Arcot | Arulraman.D | 5 | 2,648 | 1.3 |
| Aruppukkottai | Vetrivel.R | 4 | 3,223 | 1.95 |
| Athoor | Ilanchezhiyan S.P | 5 | 1,365 | 0.6 |
| Avadi | Loganathan J | 5 | 7,232 | 2.67 |
| Avanashi | Perumal C | 4 | 8,081 | 4.16 |
| Bargur | R.Manivannan | 6 | 1,273 | 0.68 |
| Bhavani | Shithivinayagan K A | 7 | 2,480 | 1.31 |
| Bhavanisagar | Palaniswami.N.R | 4 | 3,557 | 1.81 |
| Bhuvanagiri | Muthu A | 8 | 910 | 0.48 |
| Bodinayakanur | V. Venkateswaran | 4 | 3,250 | 1.61 |
| Chengam | Karuppan. V | 9 | 884 | 0.42 |
| Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni | Apn.Thamarai Gajendran | 3 | 6,281 | 4.37 |
| Cheyyar | Bhaskaran.B | 5 | 2,388 | 1.16 |
| Cheyyur | Sampath P | 6 | 1,559 | 0.92 |
| Chidambaram | Manimaran G | 8 | 1,079 | 0.63 |
| Coimbatore (North) | Kannan Alias S.Devaraj | 3 | 16,741 | 8.86 |
| Coimbatore (South) | Vanathi Srinivasan | 3 | 33,113 | 21.57 |
| Colachel | Ramesh P | 2 | 41,167 | 24.62 |
| Coonoor | Kumaran, B. | 4 | 3,547 | 2.63 |
| Cuddalore | Selvam P | 7 | 1,964 | 1.14 |
| Cumbum | N.Prabakaran | 4 | 3,971 | 2.05 |
| Dharapuram | Shanmugham. M | 3 | 7,753 | 4.24 |
| Dharmapuri | Arumugam. M. | 6 | 1,606 | 0.77 |
| Dindigul | Thirumalai Balaji T.A | 4 | 5,079 | 2.74 |
| Dr.Radhakrishnan Nagar | Raja M.N | 5 | 2,928 | 1.68 |
| Egmore | Venkatesan M | 3 | 7,159 | 5.93 |
| Erode (East) | Rajeshkumar P | 4 | 5,549 | 3.75 |
| Erode (West) | Palanisamy N.P. | 5 | 4,177 | 2.21 |
| Gandharvakottai | Puratchikavidhasan @ Palaniyappan.M | 4 | 1,600 | 1.1 |
| Gangavalli | Sivagami Paramasivam. Dr | 6 | 2,023 | 1.15 |
| Gingee | Rajendiran M S | 6 | 1,443 | 0.72 |
| Gobichettipalayam | Ganapathi K | 5 | 3,149 | 1.54 |
| Gudalur | Parasuraman,P.M. | 4 | 5,548 | 4.23 |
| Gummidipoondi | Bhaskaran M | 5 | 2,092 | 0.98 |
| Harbour | Krishnakumar Nadhani | 3 | 13,357 | 12.81 |
| Harur | P.Vediyappan | 7 | 1,948 | 1.02 |
| Hosur | Balakrishnan G | 3 | 28,850 | 13.4 |
| Jayankondam | Krishnamoorthy.S | 7 | 1,092 | 0.54 |
| Jolarpet | Oveyam Ranjan.N | 7 | 1,021 | 0.56 |
| Kadayanallur | Kathirvelu. V | 4 | 14,286 | 7.57 |
| Kancheepuram | T.Vasan | 5 | 3,646 | 1.63 |
| Kangayam | Ushadevi M | 4 | 7,161 | 3.88 |
| Kanniyakumari | Meena Dev. M | 3 | 24,638 | 11.74 |
| Karaikudi | Muthulakshmi V | 5 | 4,969 | 2.47 |
| Karur | Sivasaami .K | 4 | 3,995 | 2.14 |
| Kattumannarkoil | Saravanan.S.P | 8 | 822 | 0.5 |
| Kavundampalayam | Nandakumar, R. | 3 | 22,444 | 8.24 |
| Killiyoor | Pon. Vijayaragavan | 2 | 31,061 | 20.27 |
| Kilpennathur | Subbarayan M | 6 | 1,209 | 0.61 |
| Kilvaithinankuppam | Vimala R | 5 | 2,210 | 1.34 |
| Kilvelur | Kumar.S | 6 | 1,142 | 0.83 |
| Kinathukadavu | Muthuramalingam, V. | 3 | 11,354 | 5.46 |
| Kolathur | Raghavan.K.T | 4 | 5,289 | 3.14 |
| Krishnarayapuram | Naveenkumar , P. | 4 | 5,673 | 3.37 |
| Kulithalai | Shathakathulla .N.K.N | 6 | 1,437 | 0.78 |
| Kumarapalayam | Easwaran K | 8 | 1,981 | 1.06 |
| Kumbakonam | Annamalai Pl. | 6 | 2,934 | 1.55 |
| Kurinjipadi | Shakthi Ganapathy Mu | 7 | 957 | 0.51 |
| Madathukulam | Muthukumar A | 4 | 2,619 | 1.53 |
| Madavaram | Janakiraman R M R | 5 | 5,161 | 1.92 |
| Madurai Central | Karthik Prabu M | 4 | 6,926 | 4.56 |
| Madurai East | Suseendran M | 4 | 6,181 | 2.88 |
| Madurai South | Mahalakshmi .A.R | 4 | 16,069 | 10.96 |
| Madurai West | Sasikumar A | 4 | 5,705 | 3.1 |
| Manachanallur | Aravind. S | 4 | 3,662 | 2.03 |
| Manamadurai | Rajendran M | 4 | 3,493 | 1.88 |
| Manapparai | Senthil Deepak C | 4 | 4,154 | 2.02 |
| Mannargudi | Sivakumar. B | 7 | 1,744 | 0.93 |
| Mayiladuthurai | Muthukumarasamy.C | 5 | 1,926 | 1.14 |
| Melur | Boopathikakkan P.V | 4 | 1,921 | 1.11 |
| Mettuppalayam | Jaganathan. P. | 4 | 11,036 | 5.24 |
| Mettur | Balasubramanian.P | 6 | 1,428 | 0.69 |
| Modakkurichi | Chinnamalai Krishnakumar, J. | 5 | 4,052 | 2.29 |
| Mudhukulathur | B.T.Arasakumar | 4 | 5,408 | 2.66 |
| Mylapore | Nagarajan.K | 3 | 11,720 | 7.51 |
| Nagapattinam | Nethaji.K | 4 | 6,005 | 4.47 |
| Nagercoil | Gandhi M.R | 2 | 46,413 | 26.78 |
| Namakkal | Rajendran. V | 6 | 2,751 | 1.41 |
| Nanguneri | Manikandan.V | 5 | 6,609 | 3.83 |
| Nilakkottai | Alagumani R | 4 | 2,565 | 1.47 |
| Oddanchatram | Palanisamy S.K | 4 | 1,909 | 1.01 |
| Orathanadu | Kesavan. T | 7 | 1,003 | 0.56 |
| Ottapidaram | Santhanakumar.A | 4 | 5,931 | 3.7 |
| Padmanabhapuram | Sheeba Prasad Su | 3 | 31,994 | 19.8 |
| Palani | Kanagaraj N | 4 | 4,092 | 2.07 |
| Palayamkottai | Nirmal Singh Yadav .M | 4 | 7,063 | 4.57 |
| Palladam | Thangaraj. S | 4 | 13,127 | 5.52 |
| Pallavaram | Dr.Gopi Ayyaswamy | 4 | 11,781 | 4.69 |
| Panruti | Saravanan S.R | 6 | 1,373 | 0.74 |
| Papanasam | Neithalur Gunasekaran T | 8 | 2,158 | 1.18 |
| Paramakudi | Balaganapathy.V.Pon | 3 | 9,537 | 5.64 |
| Paramathi-Velur | Rajkumar S | 5 | 4,323 | 2.47 |
| Pattukkottai | Muruganantham. M | 4 | 11,039 | 6.65 |
| Perambalur | M.Kaliyaperumal | 7 | 1,981 | 0.89 |
| Perambur | Prakash R | 4 | 4,582 | 2.43 |
| Peravurani | Elango R | 4 | 4,612 | 2.85 |
| Periyakulam | Chellam.K | 4 | 5,015 | 2.6 |
| Perundurai | Chandrasekaran.A | 5 | 2,625 | 1.44 |
| Pollachi | Sivakumar, R. | 4 | 5,363 | 3.18 |
| Polur | Tamilarasi.D | 7 | 1,232 | 0.63 |
| Ponneri | Ganesan K | 6 | 2,067 | 1.05 |
| Poonamallee | Amarnath A | 5 | 3,456 | 1.44 |
| Radhapuram | S. Kani Amudha | 3 | 11,131 | 6.5 |
| Rajapalayam | Ramachandra Raja, A.N. | 4 | 3,435 | 2.01 |
| Ramanathapuram | Kannan.D | 4 | 15,029 | 7.79 |
| Ranipet | Nagaraj. V | 6 | 1,342 | 0.7 |
| Rasipuram | Kuppusamy C | 7 | 2,375 | 1.27 |
| Royapuram | Jemelaa M R | 4 | 3,562 | 2.92 |
| Saidapet | Kalidass.V | 3 | 6,000 | 3.57 |
| Salem (North) | Gopinath.R.P | 4 | 5,922 | 3.09 |
| Salem (South) | Annadurai N | 4 | 4,686 | 2.37 |
| Sankarankovil | Gunasekaran K | 4 | 4,242 | 2.39 |
| Sankari | Murugesan.A.C | 6 | 3,184 | 1.48 |
| Sattur | Gnanapandithan,P. | 4 | 3,407 | 1.94 |
| Sholavandan | Palanivel Swamy S | 4 | 2,766 | 1.66 |
| Sholingur | Kumar.M | 6 | 1,468 | 0.7 |
| Shozhinganallur | Ujagar Singh | 5 | 14,915 | 4.31 |
| Singanallur | Nandakumar, C.R. | 3 | 16,605 | 8.81 |
| Sirkazhi | Elavalagan.M.R.S | 7 | 1,187 | 0.67 |
| Sivakasi | Parrathashaarathi A.G | 4 | 6,189 | 3.52 |
| Sriperumbudur | Manoharan.M | 5 | 3,939 | 1.67 |
| Srirangam | Rajeshkumar.A | 3 | 5,988 | 2.66 |
| Srivaikuntam | Selvaraj S | 3 | 9,582 | 6.17 |
| Srivilliputhur | Ramasamy. I | 4 | 5,497 | 3.08 |
| Sulur | Mandharasalam, S.D. | 3 | 13,517 | 6.34 |
| Tambaram | Vedasubramaniam A | 4 | 10,327 | 4.39 |
| Tenkasi | Selvi B | 3 | 11,716 | 5.78 |
| Thalli | Ramachandran,B. | 5 | 2,908 | 1.54 |
| Thanjavur | M.S.Ramalingam | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Thirumangalam | Ramamoorthy.V.R | 4 | 3,261 | 1.6 |
| Thirumayam | Vadamalai P | 5 | 2,262 | 1.42 |
| Thiruparankundram | Arumugam S | 4 | 7,698 | 3.9 |
| Thiruporur | Rangaswamy.V.G | 5 | 2,605 | 1.3 |
| Thiruthuraipoondi | Udayakumar. G | 4 | 3,937 | 2.24 |
| Thiruvallur | Srinivasan K | 6 | 1,826 | 0.89 |
| Thiruvarur | Rengadass .N | 7 | 1,254 | 0.64 |
| Thiruverumbur | Chittibabu E | 5 | 3,144 | 1.72 |
| Thiruvidaimarudur | Vasudevan.S | 7 | 1,321 | 0.71 |
| Thiruvottiyur | Sivakumar.M | 6 | 3,313 | 1.74 |
| Thiyagarayanagar | Raja.H | 3 | 19,888 | 14.01 |
| Thondamuthur | Karumuthu Thiyagarajan,M. | 3 | 19,043 | 9.56 |
| Thoothukkudi | Kanagaraj.M.R. | 4 | 6,250 | 3.3 |
| Thousand Lights | Shivalingam M | 3 | 8,516 | 5.98 |
| Tindivanam | Poovazhagi B | 6 | 1,509 | 0.86 |
| Tiruchendur | Jeyaraman.V | 4 | 4,289 | 2.57 |
| Tiruchengodu | Nagarajan S | 6 | 2,499 | 1.42 |
| Tiruchirappalli (East) | Rajaiyan .T. | 4 | 7,210 | 4.32 |
| Tiruchuli | Ravirajan, B. | 4 | 1,779 | 1.06 |
| Tirukkoyilur | Dhandapani S | 7 | 1,178 | 0.63 |
| Tirunelveli | Maharajan A. | 4 | 6,017 | 3.17 |
| Tirupattur | Govindarajan. V | 5 | 1,831 | 1.03 |
| Tiruppur (North) | Chinnasamy R | 4 | 8,397 | 3.82 |
| Tiruppur (South) | Point Mani N | 4 | 7,640 | 4.65 |
| Tiruttani | Chakravarthy. M | 5 | 5,525 | 2.48 |
| Tiruvadanai | Dhevanathan Yadav.T | 3 | 11,842 | 6.34 |
| Tiruvannamalai | Venkatachalapathi | 5 | 1,935 | 0.95 |
| Udhagamandalam | Raman | 3 | 5,818 | 4.15 |
| Udumalaipettai | Kandhasamy. U.K.P.N | 3 | 7,339 | 4.01 |
| Usilampatti | Sangli.M | 5 | 2,860 | 1.42 |
| Uthangarai | S A Pandu | 6 | 1,591 | 0.88 |
| Uthiramerur | Purushothaman.V | 7 | 786 | 0.4 |
| Valparai | Murugesan, P. | 4 | 2,565 | 1.78 |
| Vaniyambadi | G.Venkatesan | 6 | 1,935 | 1.12 |
| Vanur | Thiruselvakumar D | 5 | 1,716 | 0.98 |
| Vasudevanallur | Rajkumar N | 4 | 7,121 | 4.34 |
| Vedaranyam | Vetharathinam.S.K | 3 | 37,086 | 25.26 |
| Velachery | P Sritharan | 3 | 14,472 | 8.25 |
| Vellore | Elangovan.S | 3 | 5,212 | 3.04 |
| Veppanahalli | Premanathan V S | 5 | 1,966 | 1.02 |
| Vikravandi | Aadhavan. S | 6 | 1,291 | 0.72 |
| Vilathikulam | Rama Moorthy P | 4 | 6,441 | 4.22 |
| Vilavancode | Dharmaraj C | 2 | 35,646 | 21.98 |
| Villivakkam | M.Jaishankar | 4 | 6,438 | 4.29 |
| Villupuram | Jayakumar Rama | 5 | 2,188 | 1.16 |
| Virudhunagar | Kamatchi. S | 4 | 7,013 | 4.57 |
| Virugampakkam | Tamiliasi Soundrarajan.Dr | 3 | 19,167 | 11.19 |
| Yercaud | Pon Rasa | 6 | 2,225 | 1 |
State wise BJP performance in Vidhan Sabha Election 2016 |
|---|
| Tamil Nadu |
| West Bengal |