Constituency
173. Thiruvaiyaru
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2021
TN-THIRUVAIYARU
DMK 48.8%won by 25.4%BJP 23.4%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.1% to 25.4%.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 23.4% — it did not contest here in 2016.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.3% between them, down from 91.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.7% to 78.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,70,682
Turnout
78.1%
Valid votes
2,11,430
Margin
53,650
25.37%
Candidates
13 contested · winner DMK- 1DURAI.CHANDRASEKARANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK1,03,21048.8%
- 2VENKATESAN, S.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP49,56023.4%
- 3KARTHIKEYAN, V.Anaithu Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam · AMMK37,46917.7%
- 4SENTHILNATHAN, D.NTK · NTK15,8207.5%
- 5UTHIRAPATHI, G.Puthiya Tamilagam · PT1,2150.6%
- 6None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA1,1800.6%
- 7THIRUMARAN, P.S.Independent · IND1,0930.5%
- 8ASWINBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5300.3%
- 9RAJKUMAR, R.Independent · IND3680.2%
- 10VIJAYAKUMAR, S.APTADM · APTADM2570.1%
- 11BACKIYARAJ, V.AMAK · AMAK2520.1%
- 12SINGARAVADIVEL, S.Independent · IND2400.1%
- 13SIVARAMAN, T.MSKK · MSKK2360.1%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–BJP swing
- −23.9%
- DMK share
- 49.3% → 48.8%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 23.4%
- Turnout
- 81.8% → 78.1%