Constituency
42. Arcot
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2021
TN-ARCOT
DMK 49.5%won by 9.5%PMK 40.0%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.5% to 9.5%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) to Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.5% of the vote between them, up from 77.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.8% to 79.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,63,490
Turnout
79.6%
Valid votes
2,09,791
Margin
19,958
9.51%
Candidates
13 contested · winner DMK- 1J.L.EswarappanDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK1,03,88549.5%
- 2Elavazagan.K.LPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK83,92740.0%
- 3R.KathiravanNTK · NTK12,0885.8%
- 4A.R.Mohamed RaffiMNM · MNM2,8601.4%
- 5None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA2,2531.1%
- 6N.JanarthananAnaithu Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam · AMMK2,1901.0%
- 7A.C.KesavanBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7820.4%
- 8K.ManigandanIndependent · IND4570.2%
- 9H.Mohamed GhouseTSP · TSP3970.2%
- 10VasanthakumarIndependent · IND3820.2%
- 11T.D.ShanmugamIndependent · IND2310.1%
- 12Munivel.SNDPOSI · NDPOSI1840.1%
- 13P.EswaranIndependent · IND1550.1%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–PMK swing
- −14.6%
- DMK share
- 41.4% → 49.5%
- PMK share
- 17.2% → 40.0%
- Turnout
- 82.4% → 79.6%