Parliamentary Elections 2009

In most of the constituencies in Tamil Nadu DMDK has cornered a major vote share, bigger than the winning margin in most of the constituencies. This trend was observed in 2006 Assembly elections also esp. in constituencies where AIADMK lost. It has repeated again in the 2009 Parliamentary Elections.
So why does DMDK get such a large vote share across the state?
- Is it getting the votes of people tired of voting to the 2 main parties – DMK & AIADMK?
- Is it seen as a party with future potential?
- Will it manage to increase it’s vote share/popularity and covert vote share into seats?

While most parties in Tamil Nadu choose to align with one of the major parties – surprisingly DMDK has gone alone on both occasions and has contested in all the constituencies.
Now the questions arise
- Why is it not aligning with any party?
- Like PMK which initially choose not to align and then started to align and win, will DMDK in future align with one of them?
- how does it manage to fund the cost of elections? esp. given the fact that unofficial cost of elections runs into crores for assembly elections itself.

2011 Assembly elections should be able to give a better insight into the minds of Tamil Nadu Voters and DMDK chief Vijayakant’s strategy.