Peravurani
Peravurani — Govi Elango brings AIADMK back to the Pattukottai coast by 3,162 votes
AIADMK veteran Govi.Elango won Peravurani by 3,162 votes over sitting DMK MLA N. Ashokkumar — flipping the Coromandel-coast seat after a single DMK cycle. The seat is one of TN's most volatile: DMDK's Arun Pandian carried it in 2011 by 7,194 votes (on the AIADMK alliance), AIADMK's M. Govindarasu held it by a 995-vote whisker in 2016, and DMK's Ashokkumar took it by 23,503 in 2021. Govi Elango — a long-standing AIADMK leader — restores the seat to the AIADMK column in a tight contest. Peravurani sits on the Pattukottai-Coromandel cyclone belt, the same coastal paddy stretch that bore the brunt of Cyclone Gaja in 2018.
Top 5 candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASHOKKUMAR. N | DMK | 60,919 | 34.77% |
| 2 | GOVI.ELANGO | AIADMK | 57,757 | 32.97% |
| 3 | D.CHANDRAKANDEEBAN | TVK | 45,576 | 26.01% |
| 4 | BHUVANA MANIYARASAN | NTK | 9,122 | 5.21% |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 695 | 0.40% |
Postal ballot breakdown
| # | Candidate | Party | Postal votes | EVM votes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASHOKKUMAR. N | DMK | 657 | 60,262 | 60,919 |
| 2 | GOVI.ELANGO | AIADMK | 404 | 57,353 | 57,757 |
| 3 | D.CHANDRAKANDEEBAN | TVK | 182 | 45,394 | 45,576 |
| 4 | BHUVANA MANIYARASAN | NTK | 68 | 9,054 | 9,122 |
| 5 | U.UTHAYAKUMAR | IND | 6 | 235 | 241 |
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.
Peravurani is one of TN's most cycle-flipping seats — every recent contest has gone to a different alliance or a different party. The 2011 race featured two dual pills: actor Arun Pandian on DMDK (AIADMK alliance) and INC's K. Mahendran (DMK alliance). Govi Elango's 3,162-vote 2026 win is the second-tightest result the seat has produced — only the 995-vote 2016 squeaker was closer.
About Peravurani
Peravurani — AC 177 — covers the south-eastern coastal belt of Thanjavur district, a Pattukottai-region paddy and coconut country fronting the Bay of Bengal. The constituency sits on the Coromandel cyclone belt — Cyclone Gaja in November 2018 caused widespread devastation here, flattening coconut groves and paddy fields. The seat has flipped every cycle in the post-delimitation era — DMDK in 2011 (the actor Arun Pandian's debut), AIADMK in 2016 (by 995 votes), DMK in 2021, and AIADMK again in 2026 by Govi Elango.
Peravurani & the Pattukottai Coast
Peravurani is where the Thanjavur delta's green plain hits the Bay of Bengal — a Pattukottai-region coast lined with fishing villages, paddy fields, and the eight-storied 1814 Manora fort the Maratha ruler Serfoji II raised to mark the British-French peace. The same coast supplies the Karaiyur and Sethubavachatram fishing harbours, and the cyclone-belt geography that made Gaja's 2018 landfall so devastating. Pair a Manora climb with the Vedaranyam salt-pan drive south for the full delta-coast arc.
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