Constituency
178. Gandharvakottai
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2026
TN-GANDHARVAKOTTAI
TVK 35.1%won by 6.6%BJP 28.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), which now leads by 6.6%.
- TVK vote shareTVK went from 0.0% to 35.1% of the vote here (+35.1%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 28.5% — it did not contest here in 2021.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.6% between them, down from 80.4% — 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
1,67,618
Margin
11,039
6.59%
Candidates
11 contested · winner TVK- 1N. SUBRAMANIANTamilaga Vettri Kazhagam · TVK58,79535.1%
- 2C. UTHAYAKUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP47,75628.5%
- 3M. CHINNADURAICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM46,73427.9%
- 4NATHIYANTK · NTK10,1896.1%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA1,1270.7%
- 6ARUNKUMAR . SIndependent · IND6530.4%
- 7SENTHILKUMAR NIndependent · IND6420.4%
- 8M. LAKSHMANANIndependent · IND5840.3%
- 9DHANARASUNaadaalum Makkal Katchi · NMK4050.2%
- 10T. MURUGESANIndependent · IND4040.2%
- 11SASIKUMAR PIndependent · IND3290.2%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- TVKflipped
- TVK–BJP swing
- +6.6%
- TVK share
- 0.0% → 35.1%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 28.5%
- Turnout
- 74.5% → —