Constituency
208. Tiruchuli
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2026
TN-TIRUCHULI
DMK 41.4%won by 7.4%TVK 34.0%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 35.3% to 7.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerTamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) finished second with 34.0% — it did not contest here in 2021.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.4% between them, down from 83.0% — 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
1,81,250
Margin
13,485
7.44%
Candidates
24 contested · winner DMK- 1THANGAM THENARASUDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK75,08541.4%
- 2SAMAYAN.STamilaga Vettri Kazhagam · TVK61,60034.0%
- 3RAJAVARMAN.M.S.RAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK25,58114.1%
- 4AVARANGADU KARTHIK RAJANTK · NTK12,7637.0%
- 5GUNASEKARAN.GPuthiya Tamilagam · PT1,2480.7%
- 6MURUGESAPANDIAN.TAIPTMM · AIPTMM1,1070.6%
- 7MALAI ALAGU.MIndependent · IND6310.3%
- 8ADVOCATE THANGAPANDIANIndependent · IND5250.3%
- 9NOTANOTA · NOTA4250.2%
- 10MARIMUTHU.MIndependent · IND3920.2%
- 11KANNAN.GETMK · ETMK2810.2%
- 12SETHURAMALINGAM.SIndependent · IND2450.1%
- 13PALANIYANDI.MIndependent · IND1950.1%
- 14NALLAMARUTHU.KIndependent · IND1640.1%
- 15RAJANGAM.CIndependent · IND1620.1%
- 16KALIMUTHU.SIndependent · IND1240.1%
- 17RAJKUMAR.DTamilaga Vettri Kazhagam · TVK1190.1%
- 18GURUSAMY.TIndependent · IND1140.1%
- 19VELLAISAMY.PASP · ASP1080.1%
- 20JEYACHITRAIndependent · IND880.0%
- 21CHENNA KESAVAN.PIndependent · IND850.0%
- 22MUNIYASAMY.RIndependent · IND770.0%
- 23MARNADU.MIndependent · IND660.0%
- 24ARAVINTHASAMY.JIndependent · IND650.0%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–TVK swing
- −51.7%
- DMK share
- 59.2% → 41.4%
- TVK share
- 0.0% → 34.0%
- Turnout
- 77.5% → —