Constituency
232. Padmanabhapuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2026
TN-PADMANABHAPURAM
CPM 38.2%won by 8.6%TVK 29.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 8.6%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 38.2% of the vote here (+38.2%).
- New challengerTamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) finished second with 29.6% — it did not contest here in 2021.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.7% between them, down from 87.3% — 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
1,80,555
Margin
15,569
8.62%
Candidates
12 contested · winner CPM- 1CHELLASWAMY. RCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM68,93838.2%
- 2KRISHNA KUMAR. STamilaga Vettri Kazhagam · TVK53,36929.6%
- 3RAMESH. PBharatiya Janata Party · BJP44,29324.5%
- 4SEELANNTK · NTK11,2886.3%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA6150.3%
- 6VASANTHI. RIndependent · IND4530.3%
- 7DURAI RAJ. SIndependent · IND3730.2%
- 8RAKESH KUMAR. MTPMK · TPMK3460.2%
- 9SYEDALI. AOMNP · OMNP3140.2%
- 10DR. KRISHNA PRASAD. BIndependent · IND2290.1%
- 11ARUL MANI. HIndependent · IND1930.1%
- 12VAIKUNDAMANI. NTamilaga Vettri Kazhagam · TVK1440.1%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–TVK swing
- +8.6%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 38.2%
- TVK share
- 0.0% → 29.6%
- Turnout
- 70.1% → —