2024 Indian general election in South India

2024 Indian general election in South India

19 April – 13 May 2024
All 131 South Indian seats in the Lok Sabha
Opinion polls
Leader Narendra Modi Mallikarjun Kharge Party BJP INC Alliance NDA INDIA Leader's seat Varanasi - Last election 28 seats 27 seats
Incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi BJP

General elections are being held in India from 19 April to 1 June 2024 in seven phases, to elect 543 members of the Lok Sabha. The votes will be counted and the results will be declared on 4 June 2024.

Election schedule

Poll event	Phase
	I	II	III	IV
Notification date	20 March	28 March	12 April	18 April
Last date for filing nomination	27 March	4 April	19 April	25 April
Scrutiny of nomination	28 March	5 April	20 April	26 April
Last date for withdrawal of nomination	30 March	8 April	22 April	29 April
Date of poll	19 April	26 April	7 May	13 May
Date of counting of votes	4 June 2024
No. of constituencies	41	34	14	42

Seat summary

Phase-wise polling constituencies in each state

State/Union territory	Total constituencies	Election dates and number of constituencies
		Phase 1	Phase 2	Phase 3	Phase 4
		19 April	26 April	7 May	13 May
Andhra Pradesh	25				25
Karnataka	28		14	14
Kerala	20		20
Tamil Nadu	39	39
Telangana	17				17
Lakshadweep	1	1
Puducherry	1	1
Constituencies	131	41	34	14	42
Total constituencies by end of phase	–	41	75	89	131
% complete by end of phase	–	31.30	57.25	67.94	100

Parties & alliances

National Democratic Alliance

Party		State/UTs	Seats Contested
	Bharatiya Janata Party	Karnataka	25	88
		Tamil Nadu	23
		Telangana	17
		Kerala	16
		Andhra Pradesh	6
		Puducherry	1
	Telugu Desam Party	Andhra Pradesh	17
	Pattali Makkal Katchi	Tamil Nadu	10
	Bharath Dharma Jana Sena	Kerala	4
	Janata Dal (Secular)	Karnataka	3
	Tamil Maanila Congress	Tamil Nadu	3
	Amma Makkal Munnettra Kazhagam	Tamil Nadu	2
	Jana Sena Party	Andhra Pradesh	2
	Nationalist Congress Party	Lakshadweep	1
	Independent	Tamil Nadu	1
	Total		131