Secular Progressive Alliance

Not to be confused with Secular Proggresive Front (2002-2012), Secular Progressive Front, Secular Democratic Alliance, or Secular Democratic Forces.

Secular Progressive Alliance, formerly known as Democratic Progressive Alliance (DPA), is an alliance of Indian political parties formed by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).

Secular Progressive Alliance
மதச்சார்பற்ற முற்போக்குக் கூட்டணி Secular Progressive Alliance
Abbreviation	SPA
Chairman	M. K. Stalin (Tamil Nadu) R. Siva (Puducherry)
Founder	M. Karunanidhi
Founded	20 January 2004
Preceded by	DMK-led Alliance
Ideology	Big tent Factions: Social democracy[1] Secularism[2] Communism[3] Marxism[4]
Political position	Centre-left to left-wing
ECI Status	Not Required
Alliance	Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (National)
Seats in Lok Sabha	40 / 40
Seats in Rajya Sabha	12 / 19
Seats in State Legislative Assemblies	158 / 234 (Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly) 9 / 33 (Puducherry Legislative Assembly)
Number of states and union territories in government	1 / 31
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History

The alliance was known as the Democratic Progressive Alliance 2004–2009^[5] and 2014–2016. It became the Secular Progressive Alliance in 2019.

Indian general elections

Tamil Nadu

Lok Sabha Elections in Tamil Nadu

Duration	Election Year	Allied parties	Seats won
United Progressive Alliance
2004	2004	DMK, INC, PMK, IUML, MDMK, CPI(M), CPI, CJP	39 / 39
United Progressive Alliance
2004-2013	2009	DMK, INC, VCK, IUML	27 / 39
Democratic Progressive Alliance
2013-2016	2014 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu[6]	DMK, VCK, IUML, MMK, PT	0 / 39
United Progressive Alliance
2016-2023	2019 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu	DMK, VCK, IUML, CPI(M), CPI, MDMK, KMDK, IJK	38 / 39
Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
2023-Present	2024 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu	DMK, INC ,VCK, IUML, CPI(M), CPI, MDMK, KMDK, MNM	39 / 39

Puducherry

Lok Sabha Elections in Puducherry

Duration	Election Year	Allied parties	Contested by	Result
United Progressive Alliance
2004-2013	2009 Indian general election	DMK, INC, VCK, IUML	INC	Won
DMK-VCK Alliance
2013-2016	2014 Indian general election[7]	DMK, VCK, IUML, MMK, PT	DMK	Lost
United Progressive Alliance
2016-2023	2019 Indian general election	DMK, VCK, IUML, CPI(M), CPI	INC	Won
Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
2023-Present	2024 Indian general election	DMK, VCK, IUML, CPI(M), CPI, MNM	INC	Won