Constituency
172. Papanasam
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2026
TN-PAPANASAM
IUML 33.4%won by 0.5%TVK 32.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), which now leads by 0.5%.
- IUML vote shareIUML went from 0.0% to 33.4% of the vote here (+33.4%).
- New challengerTamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) finished second with 32.8% — it did not contest here in 2021.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.2% between them, down from 79.6% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
2,07,723
Margin
1,065
0.51%
Candidates
14 contested · winner IUML- 1A.M. SHAHJAHANIndian Union Muslim League · IUML69,28433.4%
- 2AZARUDEEN UDUMAN ALITamilaga Vettri Kazhagam · TVK68,21932.8%
- 3DORAI. SHANMUGA PRABUAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK57,07227.5%
- 4ANIS FATHIMANTK · NTK9,6044.6%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA7160.3%
- 6C. CHANDRASEKARANTDMK · TDMK5240.3%
- 7A. ANIS FATHIMA ABDUL RAHIMIndependent · IND5030.2%
- 8K. MASILAMANICommunist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) · CPIML3550.2%
- 9B. DHAMODHARANTamilaga Vettri Kazhagam · TVK3070.1%
- 10S. NATARAJANIndependent · IND2970.1%
- 11V. THIYAGARAJANIndependent · IND2480.1%
- 12V. KULANDHAIVELUIndependent · IND2050.1%
- 13A S THANGARASUIndependent · IND2010.1%
- 14K. RAJENDRANIndependent · IND1880.1%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- IUMLflipped
- IUML–TVK swing
- +0.5%
- IUML share
- 0.0% → 33.4%
- TVK share
- 0.0% → 32.8%
- Turnout
- 74.8% → —