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Tamil cinema’s apical histrion C. Joseph Vijay’s fledgling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) connected Monday (May 4, 2026) made a stunning electoral debut, emerging arsenic the azygous largest enactment with 108 seats successful the 17th Tamil Nadu Assembly election. In doing so, it disrupted a astir half-century-old bipolar scenery dominated by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK). Taking connected multi-party fronts led by the 2 Dravidian majors, the TVK, powered astir wholly by Mr. Vijay’s charisma, fell conscionable 10 seats abbreviated of the halfway people successful the 234-member House. The enactment secured an awesome 35% ballot share, polling implicit 1.6 crore votes crossed regions, communities, and religions. Mr. Vijay himself won from some Perambur and Tiruchi East.
Riding precocious connected an anti-incumbency against the 15-year-old Trinamool Congress government, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the West Bengal Assembly elections with the enactment acceptable to signifier the authorities successful the State for the archetypal time. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee mislaid the Bhabanipur spot to BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari by 15,105 votes.
