Constituency
226. Palayamcottai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2021
TN-PALAYAMCOTTAI
DMK 55.3%won by 32.4%AIADMK 23.0%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.3% to 32.4%.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.2% to 57.8%.
- Safe seatDravida Munnetra Kazhagam won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered5 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,78,897
Turnout
57.8%
Valid votes
1,61,091
Margin
52,141
32.37%
Candidates
11 contested · winner DMK- 1ABDUL WAHAB .MDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK89,11755.3%
- 2GERALD .GAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK36,97623.0%
- 3MOHAMED MUBARAK .V.M.S.SDPI · SDPI12,2417.6%
- 4FATHIMA .ANTK · NTK11,6657.2%
- 5PREMNATH. DMNM · MNM8,1075.0%
- 6None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA1,6471.0%
- 7SADAGOPAN .KIndependent · IND3950.2%
- 8RAJA .SVTVTK · VTVTK2980.2%
- 9VEERASUBRAMANIYAN .SAJPK · AJPK2310.1%
- 10JOHN SAMUVEL JESUPATHAM .DIndependent · IND2120.1%
- 11LEO INFANT RAJ .MIndependent · IND2020.1%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +22.1%
- DMK share
- 43.6% → 55.3%
- AIADMK share
- 33.4% → 23.0%
- Turnout
- 61.0% → 57.8%