Constituency
218. Kovilpatti
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2026
TN-KOVILPATTI
DMK 31.7%won by 0.4%TVK 31.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 0.4%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 31.7% of the vote here (+31.7%).
- New challengerTamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) finished second with 31.3% — it did not contest here in 2021.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.0% between them, down from 68.9% — 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
1,94,232
Margin
843
0.43%
Candidates
22 contested · winner DMK- 1KARUNANITHI.KDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK61,64331.7%
- 2BALASUBRAMANIAN.STamilaga Vettri Kazhagam · TVK60,80031.3%
- 3KADAMBUR RAJU.CAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK53,01427.3%
- 4PANDI.PNTK · NTK11,9196.1%
- 5ATHIKUMAR KUDUMBAR.BIndependent · IND2,9921.5%
- 6NOTANOTA · NOTA5930.3%
- 7KANNAN.SAIPTMM · AIPTMM4460.2%
- 8POUNDURAI.KIndependent · IND3980.2%
- 9PREMKUMAR.KIndependent · IND3780.2%
- 10PANDIMUNEESWARI.KIndependent · IND3670.2%
- 11SARAVANAN.STPK · TPK3560.2%
- 12PARAMASIVAN.SIndependent · IND2750.1%
- 13RAMACHANDRAN.RBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1940.1%
- 14SEKAR.CIndependent · IND1770.1%
- 15HARI BALAKRISHNAN.GPMTDK · PMTDK1390.1%
- 16GURUSAMY.KIndependent · IND1040.1%
- 17CHINNA MAHARAJA.KIndependent · IND940.0%
- 18RENGANAYAGALU.SIndependent · IND900.0%
- 19PONNUSAMY.MIndependent · IND770.0%
- 20MUNEESWARAN.RIndependent · IND690.0%
- 21GUNASEKARAN.PIndependent · IND550.0%
- 22ARUMUGAVEL.TNIP · NIP520.0%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–TVK swing
- +0.4%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 31.7%
- TVK share
- 0.0% → 31.3%
- Turnout
- 67.4% → —