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Even 1 ballot tin marque a difference, goes the celebrated saying. In K.R. Periakaruppan’s case, it was proved close in Tirupattur. A difference of 1 ballot outgo the incumbent DMK MLA his seat successful the 2026 Assembly election. The quality went successful favour of Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) candidate Seenivasa Sethupathy R., who was declared the winner. Mr. Periakaruppan had been winning from the constituency since 2006.
In Veppanahalli, the incumbent AIADMK MLA, K.. Munusamy, mislaid to P.S. Srinivasan of the DMK by 138 votes. Mr. Srinivasan polled 74,691 votes. In Kanniyakumari, Thalavai Sundaram, the incumbent AIADMK MLA, won by 214 votes. He defeated Mahesh of the DMK, who polled 74,831 votes. In Polur, R. Abishek of the TVK won by 227 votes, defeating P. Saravanan of the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam, an state of the DMK.
S. Palaniswamy of the AIADMK won in Tirukkoyilur by 285 votes, defeating the trailing campaigner of the TVK. The constituency was won successful 2021 by erstwhile Minister K. Ponmudy, who didn’t contention this time.
S. Sekar of the AIADMK retained Paramathi-Velur only by 308 votes. He defeated K.S. Moorthiy of the DMK. In 2021, helium had defeated Mr. Moorthiy by 7,662 votes. In Kulithalai, Suriyanur A. Chandran of the DMK defeated G. Balasubramani of the TVK by 579 votes. He polled 68,138 votes.
Vinoth of the TVK, who had campaigned in Kumbakonam using a hologram of TVK chief C. Joseph Vijay, defeated the incumbent DMK MLA, G. Anbalagan, by 679 votes. The DMK had won six times successful the constituency, with Mr. Anbalagan himself having won successful the past 3 times.
In Palani, K. Ravi Manoharan of the AIADMK won by 693 votes, defeating M. Praveen Kumar of the TVK, who polled 66,293 votes. Vanni Arasu of the VCK won in Tindivanam by 734 votes, defeating P. Arjunan of the AIADMK.
Flying high
In Edappadi, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami recorded the highest triumph borderline successful the State, winning by 98,110 votes. He defeated K. Premkumar, an Independent backed by the TVK. Interestingly, the different precocious borderline victories were mostly recorded by the TVK, successful and astir Chennai and successful the adjoining regions. In Sholinganallur, ECR P. Saravanan of the TVK defeated S. Aravind Ramesh of the DMK by 96,780 votes. In Madhavaram, M.L. Vijayprabhu won by 94,985 votes against S. Sudharsanam of the DMK. In Avadi, R. Ramesh Kumar of the TVK defeated former DMK Minister S.M. Nasar by 76,311. In Poonamallee, R. Prakasam of the TVK defeated A. Krishnaswamy of the DMK by 72,740 votes.
In Tiruppur (North), V. Sathyabama of the TVK, a former AIADMK MP from Tiruppur, won by 69,992 votes against erstwhile Minister M.S.M. Anandan of the AIADMK. In Maduravoyal, Rhevanth Charan of the TVK defeated K. Ganapathy of the DMK by 61,509 votes. Mr. Ganapathy won the spot successful 2021.
In Salem (West) S. Lakshmanan of the TVK defeated Karthi M. of the PMK by 74,867 votes. Viralimalai was the different constituency with a triumph borderline of implicit 60,000 votes. Here, C. Vijayabaskar of the AIADMK defeated P. Murugesan of the TVK by 62,073 votes.
Most constituencies with margins supra 60,000 votes were won by the TVK, with the DMK finishing 2nd successful a bulk of these seats. The organisation of these margins shows a attraction successful municipality and concern regions, particularly astir Chennai, alternatively than being dispersed evenly crossed the State.
