Know your constituency

Fahad Hussain, INN/Chennai, @Infodeaofficial 

SOUTH CHENNAI

Party Wise Candidate List for Lok Sabha Constituency Election 2019

Party Name       LS Constituency      Candidate Name

AIADMK.             Chennai South.       J.Jayavardhan

BSP.                Chennai South.       R.Kumar

DMK.                   Chennai South.       Sumathy(Alisa)

                                                                Thamizhachi Thangapandian              

One of the 39 parliamentary constituencies of Tamil Nadu, Chennai South Lok Sabha Constituency is one of the three constituencies representing Chennai.

According to Election Commission of India 2009 data the total electorates in the Chennai South Parliamentary constituency (constituency number 3) were 1,162,062 of which 577,630 are females and 584,432 are males. It was formed before the 1957 elections and comprises of six legislative assembly segments.

It was earlier known as Madras South and has a total number of 1,162,062 electors. The city of Chennai is the capital of Tamil Nadu and it has a total metropolitan area of 1,189 sq km.

It is located on the Coromandel Coast along the Bay of Bengal and is the sixth most densely populated city of the country and is home to over 8,696,000 people with about 4,390,000 males and 4,307,000 females residing here.

The area has a population density of 26,702 people per sq km and the sex ratio here is 981 females per 1000 males. Children comprise about 12% of the total population and Hindus have an 83.3% majority here. It is the world’s 31st largest urban settlement.

Tamil and English are the widely spoken languages here. The average literacy rate is 90.35% with male literacy rate being 93.57% and female literacy rate being 87.08%. The National Highways of NH-4, NH-5, NH-45 and NH-205 pass through the metro.