Constituency
188. Melur
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2026
TN-MELUR
INC 31.5%won by 1.4%TVK 30.1%
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 1.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 26.4% to 31.5% of the vote here (+5.1%).
- New challengerTamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) finished second with 30.1% — it did not contest here in 2021.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.6% between them, down from 72.0% — 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
1,90,726
Margin
2,724
1.43%
Candidates
14 contested · winner INC- 1P.VISWANATHANIndian National Congress · INC60,08031.5%
- 2A.MADURAIVEERANTamilaga Vettri Kazhagam · TVK57,35630.1%
- 3P.PERIYAPULLAN (A) SELVAMAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK56,74429.8%
- 4KOTTAIKUMARNTK · NTK9,5705.0%
- 5SONIAGANDHIAIPTMM · AIPTMM2,6281.4%
- 6M.MURUGANIndependent · IND2,1701.1%
- 7NOTANOTA · NOTA5540.3%
- 8M.PANNEERSELVAMPuthiya Tamilagam · PT4230.2%
- 9C.RAMESHIndependent · IND3170.2%
- 10K.MEYYARCommunist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) · CPIML2760.1%
- 11C.MOHANRAMIndependent · IND2690.1%
- 12K.MANIKANDAPRABUIndependent · IND1380.1%
- 13S.BOOPATHIIndependent · IND1160.1%
- 14K.SETHURAMANIndependent · IND850.0%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–TVK swing
- −24.9%
- INC share
- 26.4% → 31.5%
- TVK share
- 0.0% → 30.1%
- Turnout
- 74.2% → —