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The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) has taken the lion’s stock of those Assembly seats, wherever the combined votes of the coalitions headed by it and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) exceeded the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA) during the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
Had the 2 formations fought together, they would person been up of the SPA successful 85 assembly segments, by applying the yardstick of the 2024 trend of voting. Of these seats, the Dravidian large has retained 65 seats.
Of the remaining 19 Assembly segments, the BJP and the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) person been allotted 8 each with 1 each to the Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi (IJK), Puratchi Bharatham and the Tamizhaga Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK). In fact, successful 2024 erstwhile the PMK was a constituent of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), it was up successful 3 Assembly segments, of which 2 — Pennagaram and Dharmapuri — have been assigned to the party, the different being Pappireddipatti, wherever the AIADMK has named its nominee.
It is besides to beryllium kept successful caput that the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK), which was with the AIADMK successful 2024, is present an state of the DMK. Two years ago, the DMDK took the pb successful 2 Assembly segments — Thirumangalam and Aruppukottai. Also, erstwhile Chief Minister O. Paneerselvam, who contested successful Ramanathapuram arsenic an autarkic nether the NDA fold 2 years ago, has been named arsenic the DMK’s campaigner for Bodinayakkanur.
In presumption of the region-wise break-up of the 65 seats netted by the AIADMK, 31 are successful the occidental region, 1 of the strongholds of the enactment and the location portion of galore leaders of the enactment specified arsenic wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami (Edappadi), lawman wide caput K.P. Munusamy (Veppanahalli), and erstwhile Ministers P. Thangamani (Kumarapalayam) and S.P. Velumani (Thondamuthur). The enactment was, connected its own, was up successful Edappadi and Kumarapalayam successful 2024, isolated from six others.
Sixteen Assembly segments are successful the bluish districts, which see Mailam, wherever erstwhile Law Minister C.Ve. Shanmugam is going to contest, portion 14 are successful the south. The cardinal oregon Cauvery delta region, wherever the enactment could triumph lone successful 4 seats during the 2021 Assembly polls, accounts for four, which screen Viralimalai and Vedaranyam, some being represented by the AIADMK’s erstwhile Ministers C. Vijayabaskar and O.S. Manian, and 2 others.
As for the BJP, Avanashi, Rasipuram, Coimbatore (North), and Sattur, the seats identified for the party’s starring figures including Nainar Nagenthran, are among the advantageous seats. In the lawsuit of the PMK, Gingee and Virkavandi are immoderate specified places. Kunnam, K.V. Kuppam and Rajapalayam are the different 3 seats allocated to the 3 parties — IJK, Puratchi Bharatham, and the TMMK.
