Constituency
222. Tenkasi
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2021
TN-TENKASI
INC 41.7%won by 0.2%AIADMK 41.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.2%.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.5% to 72.4%.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 370 votes (0.17%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,95,729
Turnout
72.4%
Valid votes
2,14,108
Margin
370
0.17%
Candidates
19 contested · winner INC- 1PALANI NADAR.SIndian National Congress · INC89,31541.7%
- 2SELVA MOHANDAS PANDIAN.SAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK88,94541.5%
- 3VINCENTRAJ.RNTK · NTK15,3367.2%
- 4MOHAMED.SAnaithu Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam · AMMK9,9444.6%
- 5THIRUMALAIMUTHU.RMNM · MNM2,1881.0%
- 6MADASAMY.AIndependent · IND1,9780.9%
- 7None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA1,1590.5%
- 8CHANDRASEGAR.SPuthiya Tamilagam · PT8780.4%
- 9UDHAYAKUMAR.K.MAnna Dravidar Kazhagam · ADK6900.3%
- 10RAMESH.RIndependent · IND6840.3%
- 11PALANIMURUGAN.PIndependent · IND6280.3%
- 12REEGANKUMAR. MIndependent · IND4950.2%
- 13AROKKIYA PRABHU.JIndependent · IND4280.2%
- 14JEGANATHAN.MAMPK · AMPK4160.2%
- 15SELVAKUMAR.RNIP · NIP3190.1%
- 16DOCTOR. KARUPPASAMY.SIndependent · IND2160.1%
- 17MUGUNDHAN.KMIP · MIP1950.1%
- 18PALANIKUMAR.AIndependent · IND1750.1%
- 19SURESHKUMAR.SAPTADM · APTADM1190.1%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–AIADMK swing
- +0.4%
- INC share
- 42.4% → 41.7%
- AIADMK share
- 42.6% → 41.5%
- Turnout
- 76.9% → 72.4%