leadership of Rahul Gandhi stated that they will decide on a PM candidate after the election. They lost their major ally from UPA 1 and 2 administration DMK last year. They decided to contest alone, to all 39 seats in the state. CPI(M)-CPI After six rounds of seat-sharing talks with AIADMK for the Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry failed to bear fruit, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India opted to make an alliance of their own. On 14 March 2014 the two parties held a joint press conference in Chennai, declaring that CPI(M) would contest nine seats in Tamil Nadu and CPI would contest eight seats in Tamil Nadu and the Puducherry seat. Aam Aadmi Party Aam Aadmi Party announced its candidates for 25 seats. Opinion poll List of candidates Results Party-wise results |- ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan=2 |Alliance/Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Seats won ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Change ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Popular Vote ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Vote % |- ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#009900; color:white"|AIADMK | 37 | +28 |17,983,168 |44.3% |- ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:"|NDA | 2 | +2 |7,523,829 |18.5% |- |BJP ! style="background-color:" | | 1 | +1 |2,222,090 |5.5% |- |PMK ! style="background-color:" | | 1 | +1 |1,804,812 |4.4% |- |DMDK ! style="background-color:" | | 0 | - |2,079,392 |5.1% |- |MDMK ! style="background-color:"| | 0 | -1 |1,417,535 |3.5% |- ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:"|DPA |0 |0 |10,887,347 |26.8% |- |DMK ! style="background-color: "| | 0 | -18 |9,575,850 |23.6% |- |VCK ! style="background-color: "| | 0 | -1 |606,110 |1.5% |- |PT ! style="background-color:" | | 0 | - |262,812 |0.6% |- |MMK ! style="background-color:" | | 0 | - |236,679 |0.6% |- |IUML ! style="background-color:" | | 0 | - |205,896 |0.5% |- ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:"|INC | 0 | -8 |1,751,123 |4.3% |- ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color: color:white"|Others | 0 | | | |- |CPI(M) ! style="background-color: " | | 0 | -1 |220,614 |0.5% |- |CPI ! style="background-color:" | | 0 | -1 |219,866 |0.5% |- |AAP ! style="background-color: "| | 0 | - |203,175 |0.5% |- |BSP ! style="background-color:" | | 0 | - |155,964 |0.4% |- |IND ! style="background-color:"| | 0 | - |866,509 |2.1% |- |NOTA ! style="background-color:" | | 0 | - |582062 |1.4% |- | style="text-align:center;" |Total ! style="background-color: " | | 39 | | | 100% |- |} Note: IJK, KMDK and PNK were contested under the