Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam

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Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam

Leader	Vijayakanth
Founded	2005
Headquarters	Koyambedu, Chennai
Political ideology	Social Democratic/Populist
Website	http://www.dmdkindia.org
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Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (in Tamil: தேசிய முற்போக்கு திராவிடக் கழகம், meaning National Progressive Dravidian Federation) is a regional political party formed by Tamil cinema actor Vijayakanth in Tamil Nadu along the lines of the regional Dravidian political parties. He formally announced party formation on September 14, 2005 at Madurai. The party head office is in Koyambedu, Chennai.

Vijayakanth

This party contested in all 234 seats in the state elections in May 2006 with Vijayakanth contesting in Vridhachalam. The party polled almost 3 million votes (about 10% share),(which was surprisingly good show for a new party). All the candidates of the DMDK with the exception of Mr.Vijaykanth lost the elections in 2006.

Vijaykanth has declared that he would not ask donations for his party, and most of the funding for the party comes from his own pocket.He has so far rejected alliances with other political parties. In a recent by-elections to Madurai Central assembly constituency DMDK has secured around 17000 votes which is just 2000 votes less than ADMK. DMDK was also able to secure significant no of seats in Local Body elections.

DMDK gets national, DMDK is contesting in the local body elections in Mumbai this year 2007.The party believes in the abundant number of Tamils residing in Dhaaravi and other areas of Mumbai

[edit] Election history

[edit] Tamil Nadu

See pdf for summary.

Year	General Election	Votes Polled	Seats Won
2006	13th Assembly	2,764,223	1

The following Mayoral Election Results of 2006, clearly shows that DMDK’s vote share is much more than the margin of victory for the DMK. DMDK contested the elections without any alliance, while DMK alliance had more than four major parties [CPI, CPM, Cong I and PMK] AIADMK alliance had MDMK on it’s side.

1. Madurai:

AIADMK:109,679

2. Tirunelveli:

AIADMK:49,658 DMDK:24,043 DMK: 69,808

3. Coimbatore:

AIADMK:101,00 DMDK:60,777 DMK: 140,400

4. Trichy:

AIADMK:97,476 DMDK:46,934 DMK: 119,271

5. Salem:

AIADMK:114,200 DMDK:64,350 DMK: 149,600

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