Manapparai
Manapparai — TVK's R. Kathiravan flips Manapparai from DMK by 1,426 votes
R. Kathiravan of TVK has won Manapparai by 1,426 votes against AIADMK's Dr. P.L. Vijayakumar, taking a Tiruchirappalli-district seat where DMK's P. Abdul Samad had won in 2021 by 12,243 votes over AIADMK. AIADMK's R. Chandrasekar held the seat in both 2011 (with 81,020 votes) and 2016 (margin of about 18,277 over IUML). The 2026 result is a three-way DMK-AIADMK-TVK contest that broke for the new entrant.
Top 5 candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | R. KATHIRAVAN | TVK | 83,041 | 34.89% |
| 2 | DR. PL. VIJAYAKUMAR | AIADMK | 81,615 | 34.29% |
| 3 | P. ABDUL SAMED | DMK | 61,355 | 25.78% |
| 4 | M. ARUNAGIRI | NTK | 10,070 | 4.23% |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 949 | 0.40% |
Postal ballot breakdown
Postal-ballot leader differs from overall winner. DMK P. ABDUL SAMED led postal ballots (1,213), but TVK R. KATHIRAVAN won the seat overall (83,041).
| # | Candidate | Party | Postal votes | EVM votes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | P. ABDUL SAMED | DMK | 1,213 | 60,142 | 61,355 |
| 2 | DR. PL. VIJAYAKUMAR | AIADMK | 1,014 | 80,601 | 81,615 |
| 3 | R. KATHIRAVAN | TVK | 773 | 82,268 | 83,041 |
| 4 | M. ARUNAGIRI | NTK | 159 | 9,911 | 10,070 |
| 5 | P. CHINNAN | IND | 17 | 166 | 183 |
Source: Election Commission of India · Form 20 data via results.eci.gov.in
Past results
Verified winners and runners-up across the last five elections, with the major alliance partners each side fielded.
Manapparai was created in the 2008 delimitation, so no pre-2008 row applies. AIADMK's R. Chandrasekar took the inaugural 2011 contest by 28,299 votes and held it again in 2016, before MNMK's Abdul Samad won on the DMK alliance in 2021 and TVK's Kathiravan flipped it in 2026.
About Manapparai
Manapparai — AC 138 — is a highway-town seat on the Trichy–Madurai NH-38, in western Tiruchirappalli district at the edge of Pudukkottai's dry zone. The town is best known for Manapparai murukku, the crisp coiled rice-flour snack that earned a GI tag in 2019; bus passengers have stopped here to pick up packets since the 1950s. The constituency takes in paddy and millet farming on the Pavithra-Vaigai uplands, with the Kallar reservoir feeding the Marudhanadhi system. The Vayalur Murugan temple — one of Murugan's 'unofficial' Padal-petra shrines — sits on the seat's eastern edge, and Pudukkottai's Sittannavasal cave paintings are an hour's drive south.
Manapparai & the murukku highway
Manapparai is a 20-minute coffee stop turned half-day — pick up packets of GI-tag rice-flour murukku at the bus-stand stalls, eat thatte-idli and country chicken at a NH-38 mess. From here it's an hour south to Pudukkottai's Sittannavasal Jain cave paintings and the Thirumayam fort, or 40 km north to Trichy for the Rockfort and Srirangam.
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