Elections
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Tamil Nadu 2026 Assembly Election: The Complete Analysis
The complete data analysis of Tamil Nadu's 2026 Assembly Election. TVK won 108 of 234 seats with 34.9% of the …
Tamil Nadu by-elections 2026: results, comparisons and vacant seats
Results of Tamil Nadu's 2026 Assembly by-elections. October 2026: TVK won Madurantakam by 20,040 votes and …
Two AIADMK defectors won their seats back on TVK's ticket. The AIADMK came third in both.
Both AIADMK MLAs who switched to TVK won their seats again in the October 2026 bypolls: K. Maragatham …
How many Lok Sabha seats will Tamil Nadu get?
Tamil Nadu has 39 seats. Under the options now being discussed it ends up with anywhere between 32 and 64. The …
The rule India wrote down in 1963
India divides Lok Sabha seats among its states using a method a Commission wrote down in 1963. It has a name, …
TN 2026 Explorer: Every seat, every party, every region in one dashboard
An interactive dashboard for Tamil Nadu's 2026 Assembly election. 234 constituencies, 12 parties with seats, …
How DMK lost Tamil Nadu, region by region
DMK went from 133 seats to 59 in one cycle. The collapse was not uniform. Their strongest regions in 2021 fell …
Tamil Nadu just elected 41 MLAs under 40, the most in 20 years
41 of Tamil Nadu's 234 new MLAs are under 40, the most in the 20 years of age records, and 35 of them are …
The chief minister lost his seat: How TVK knocked out 64 sitting MLAs in 2026
M.K. Stalin lost Kolathur by 8,795 votes to his own former associate. He was one of 93 sitting Tamil Nadu MLAs …
How many of the 329 dummies actually mattered
Three weeks ago I flagged 329 suspected dummy candidates in TN 2026. The results are in. In the cleanest test, …
TVK 233: How Vijay's party won 108 seats in its 2026 debut
Vijay's TVK won 108 of 233 contested seats with 34.92% of the vote, posting the highest seat-to-vote …
Dataset: Tamil Nadu 2026 Candidates + Dummy Match Pairs
Open dataset of all ~4,000 candidates contesting the Tamil Nadu 2026 Assembly Election, plus the 329 …
Same name, different initial: The dummy candidate factory in TN 2026
A data investigation into 4,000 candidates contesting the Tamil Nadu 2026 Assembly Election reveals a …
3 crore votes that elected nobody: What the numbers say about Tamil Nadu's coming election
A data-driven look at Tamil Nadu's three assembly elections: FPTP distortions, AIADMK's western fortress, the …