Decoding Tamil Nadu Elections 2026
234 seats · 4,257 candidates · 37 districts. Every winner, every margin, every candidate's declared wealth and criminal record — read straight from the Election Commission of India and public affidavits.
Every booth, every candidate, every margin — pieced together from scattered public records the ECI never published as one dataset.
TN Results — Districts Map
Hover any constituency for the winner profile. Switch the colouring to read margins, wealth, or criminal cases.
Hover any constituency for the winner profile. Click to open the full result. Zoom with + / − or scroll-wheel; drag to pan when zoomed in. Boundaries from public ECI AC delimitation data (post-2021).
How comfortable were the wins
Who scraped through, who rolled. The TN 2026 verdict as a distribution.
How comfortable were the wins?
234 seatsDistribution of winning margins. The taller the bar, the more seats were decided in that band. Each segment is a winning party — tallest stack dominates that band.
Margin profile by party
Median and average winning margin for each party. A low median means the party scraped through most of its wins; a high median means it rolled.
| Party | Seats | Median | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| TVK | 108 | 15,969 | 22,631 |
| DMK | 59 | 7,589 | 9,572 |
| AIADMK | 47 | 10,245 | 15,920 |
| INC | 5 | 2,833 | 7,737 |
| PMK | 4 | 15,567.5 | 13,235 |
| IUML | 2 | 2,023.5 | 2,024 |
- IUML scraped most: median margin +2,023.5.
- TVK rolled hardest: median margin +15,969.
Who won AC 185 · TIRUPPATTUR by just 1 votes?
A real cliff-hanger from TN 2026. Pick one.
Records & superlatives
The numbers people will remember.
Median age of every party's contested candidates, every party's winners, and the strike rate within each age band.
Top 10 closest contests
All 50 →Seats decided by the smallest margins.
- 1AC 185TIRUPPATTUR · SEENIVASA SETHUPATHY. RTVK+1
- 2AC 54VEPPANAHALLI · SRINIVASAN.P.SDMK+138
- 3AC 229KANNIYAKUMARI · THALAVAI SUNDARAM. NAIADMK+214
- 4AC 66POLUR · ABISHEK. RTVK+227
- 5AC 76TIRUKKOYILUR · PALANISAMY SAIADMK+285
- 6AC 95PARAMATHI VELUR · SEKAR SAIADMK+308
- 7AC 137KULITHALAI · SURIYANUR. A. CHANDRANDMK+579
- 8AC 171KUMBAKONAM · VINOTHTVK+679
- 9AC 127PALANI · RAVIMANOHARAN. KAIADMK+693
- 10AC 72TINDIVANAM · VANNI ARASUVCK+734
Seats by district
All 37 →37 districts, ranked by their leading party.
- Ariyalur2 ACAIADMK1
- Chengalpattu7 ACTVK5
- Chennai16 ACTVK14
- Coimbatore10 ACTVK6
- Cuddalore9 ACDMK3
- Dharmapuri5 ACAIADMK3
- Dindigul7 ACDMK4
- Erode8 ACTVK5
- Kallakurichi4 ACDMK2
- Kancheepuram4 ACTVK4
- Kanniyakumari6 ACINC3
- Karur4 ACDMK2
- Krishnagiri6 ACTVK2
- Madurai10 ACTVK8
- Nagapattinam6 ACDMK3
- Namakkal6 ACTVK5
- Perambalur2 ACTVK1
- Pudukkottai6 ACDMK3
- Ramanathapuram4 ACDMK3
- Ranipet4 ACTVK3
- Salem11 ACAIADMK7
- Sivaganga4 ACTVK4
- Tenkasi5 ACDMK4
- Thanjavur8 ACDMK5
- The Nilgiris3 ACDMK2
- Theni4 ACDMK2
- Thiruvallur10 ACTVK9
- Thiruvarur4 ACCPI1
- Thoothukudi6 ACDMK3
- Tiruchirappalli9 ACTVK6
- Tirunelveli5 ACTVK3
- Tirupathur4 ACIUML1
- Tiruppur8 ACTVK4
- Tiruvannamalai8 ACAIADMK5
- Vellore5 ACTVK4
- Villupuram7 ACPMK2
- Virudhunagar7 ACTVK4
All parties — seat counts
Compare parties →Click any party to see its winning MLAs, their margins, and declared wealth.