How many Lok Sabha seats come from Tamil Nadu?

Seats in the Lok Sabha are allocated to each state not by any formula worked out at exam time, but by law: the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order (last revised in 2008) fixes how many Lok Sabha seats each state sends, based on population figures frozen at the 1971 Census (kept frozen until 2026 by the 84th and 87th Constitutional Amendments, so seat shares do not shift with each new Census).

Applying this to Tamil Nadu: the Delimitation Order, 2008 (Schedule I) allocates the state 39 Lok Sabha seats, and the Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer's official list of parliamentary constituencies runs from 1 through 39, ending with 39-Kanniyakumari — confirming the state sends 39 members to the Lok Sabha.

As a check, Tamil Nadu's 39 seats form part of the Lok Sabha's total elected strength of 543 seats distributed across all states and Union Territories.

Contrast with the other figures offered:

• 29 is Madhya Pradesh's Lok Sabha seat count, not Tamil Nadu's — a common mix-up between the two states when recalling state-wise seat shares from memory.

• 43 sits close to West Bengal's count of 42 seats, another state whose tally is easy to confuse with Tamil Nadu's.

• 34 does not match the Lok Sabha strength of any major state; it understates Tamil Nadu's actual seat share.