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Nagapattinam district · 3 seats · April 2026 election

Nagapattinam MLAs and 2026 election results

April 2026 Assembly election: AIADMK won 1 of Nagapattinam's 3 seats; CPM 1, DMK 1. By votes: TVK 29.8%, DMK 23.2%, AIADMK 21.7%. The same seats went AIADMK 1, CPM 1, VCK 1 in 2021.

AIADMK 1 CPM 1 DMK 1

Votes counted
4,65,179
Turnout
87.3%
Seats that changed party since 2021
1 of 3

Nagapattinam's 3 MLAs, elected April 2026

ACSeatMLA electedMarginRunner-upTurnout
163NagapattinamM. H. Jawahirullah DMK9,781TVK86.6%Booths
164Kilvelur (SC)T. Latha CPM2,278TVK88.9%Booths
165VedaranyamO. S. Manian AIADMK7,331DMK86.5%Booths

Nagapattinam in numbers

Rank among the 38 districts, 1 is the highest; = means tied. Median is the median district. Turnout is the Election Commission's count of votes (postal votes included) as a share of electors.
MeasureNagapattinamRankMedian
Seats3=34th6
Electors5,32,68037th13,16,624
Turnout87.3%16th86.5%
Women among electors50.9%25th51.1%
Median winning margin, votes7,33130th9,838
Seats that changed party since 20211 of 3=32nd71%
NOTA share of votes0.34%28th0.38%
Closest seatKilvelur, won by 2,278 votes
Biggest marginNagapattinam, won by 9,781

Vote share in Nagapattinam, 2026 against 2021

  • TVK29.8% 2026— 2021
  • DMK23.2% 202614.9% 2021
  • AIADMK21.7% 202631.0% 2021
  • CPM12.1% 202615.3% 2021
  • PMK6.8% 202611.5% 2021
  • NTK5.1% 20267.7% 2021

Share of the 4,65,179 votes counted in the district's seats in 2026 (ECI, postal votes and NOTA included) and of 4,44,615 in 2021 (ECI 2021 Detailed Results; allies who fought on a big party's symbol are counted with it). TVK did not contest in 2021.

Seats that changed party since 2021 (1 of 3)

What each seat is

  • NagapattinamNagapattinam is the old Coromandel port that Naval Tamil and Dutch records both describe, and the constituency wraps the port, the fishing harbour and the cluster of urban wards behind them.
  • KilvelurKilvelur is a reserved (SC) seat in Nagapattinam district, sitting deep in the Cauvery delta where two crops of paddy a year are still possible on the alluvial plain.
  • VedaranyamVedaranyam runs along the southern tip of the Cauvery delta, where the river finally meets the Bay of Bengal as a maze of mangroves and salt flats.

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Page updated 2 October 2026

Sources: Election Commission of India, candidate-wise results declared 4 May 2026 (results.eci.gov.in); electors from the Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu; 2021: ECI statistical report, Detailed Results.

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