Name in the record
VENKATESAN S
Also on ballots as VENKATESAN, S., VENKATESAN.S, VENKATESAN. S, VENKATESAN. S. …
IND·CPM·BJP·NTK·CPIM·DMK
This is almost certainly more than one person
The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “VENKATESAN S” is grouped by name alone. This record shows a 46-year span across 15 contests, 6 different parties — patterns a single career can’t produce. Read each block below as its own thread, and treat the totals as counts for the name, not for a person.
Ballot lines
15
1980–2026
Wins
2
Parties
6
States / UT
2
incl. Lok Sabha
Every contest
Grouped by state and by Lok Sabha — spelling variants are merged, and, without a candidate id, so are different people who share this name.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamil Nadu12 contests · 1980–2026 · 0 won | |||||
| Tamil Nadu 2026 | 2. Ponneri | IND | 203 | 0.1% | Lost · 12th |
| Tamil Nadu 2026 | 83. Yercaud | IND | 513 | 0.2% | Lost · 8th |
| Tamil Nadu 2021 | 173. Thiruvaiyaru | BJP | 49,560 | 23.4% | Lost · 2nd |
| Tamil Nadu 2016 | 57. Palacode | NTK | 503 | 0.3% | Lost · 7th |
| Tamil Nadu 2016 | 67. Arani | IND | 539 | 0.3% | Lost · 10th |
| Tamil Nadu 2011 | 79. Sankarapuram | IND | 1,933 | 1.1% | Lost · 3rd |
| Tamil Nadu 2006 | 141. Thirupparankundram | CPIM | 1,04,620 | 38.2% | Lost · 2nd |
| Tamil Nadu 2001 | 195. Karaikudi | IND | 2,937 | 2.6% | Lost · 3rd |
| Tamil Nadu 1996 | 134. Cumbum | IND | 85 | 0.1% | Lost · 11th |
| Tamil Nadu 1996 | 207. Sivakasi | IND | 107 | 0.1% | Lost · 23th |
| Tamil Nadu 1989 | 20. Tambaram | IND | 29,583 | 15.5% | Lost · 3rd |
| Tamil Nadu 1980 | 76. Kaveripattinam | DMK | 31,911 | 46.1% | Lost · 2nd |
| Lok Sabha3 contests · 2014–2024 · 2 won | |||||
| Lok Sabha 2024 | 390. Madurai | CPM | 4,30,323 | 43.6% | Won |
| Lok Sabha 2019 | 390. Madurai | CPM | 4,47,075 | 44.0% | Won |
| Lok Sabha 2014 | 388. Viluppuram | IND | 2,798 | 0.3% | Lost · 11th |