Constituency
206. Virudhunagar
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2021
TN-VIRUDHUNAGAR
DMK 45.3%won by 13.2%BJP 32.1%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.9% to 13.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.5% between them, down from 83.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.4% to 71.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,26,907
Turnout
71.3%
Valid votes
1,61,717
Margin
21,339
13.20%
Candidates
19 contested · winner DMK- 1SEENIVASAN A.R.RDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK73,29745.3%
- 2PANDURANGAN GBharatiya Janata Party · BJP51,95832.1%
- 3SELVAKUMAR V.RNTK · NTK14,3118.8%
- 4THANGARAJ MAnaithu Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam · AMMK10,7836.7%
- 5MANIMARAN NAISMK · AISMK5,0543.1%
- 6None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA1,5701.0%
- 7GUNASEKARAN GIndependent · IND1,4060.9%
- 8PUNGAN KIndependent · IND7590.5%
- 9SUYAMBULINGAM LNIP · NIP5900.4%
- 10RAMARAJ CIndependent · IND4650.3%
- 11VELUCHAMY SIndependent · IND3280.2%
- 12PANDURENGAN TIndependent · IND2820.2%
- 13SHIBI BIndependent · IND2640.2%
- 14VIKRAMAN NDMMK · DMMK2000.1%
- 15DHAMOTHARAN RIndependent · IND1190.1%
- 16THANGARAJ RIndependent · IND930.1%
- 17THANGAPANDI NIndependent · IND890.1%
- 18KARUPPIAH PIndependent · IND850.1%
- 19GURUNATHAN GIndependent · IND640.0%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–BJP swing
- −24.9%
- DMK share
- 42.7% → 45.3%
- BJP share
- 4.6% → 32.1%
- Turnout
- 73.6% → 71.3%