Alangudi
Siva V. Meyyanathan (DMK) is the MLA for Alangudi.
DMK has won Alangudi at 3 elections in a row (2016, 2021, 2026).
In 2026 Siva V. Meyyanathan won with 36.0% of the vote, 12,977 votes ahead of Kandasamy (TVK).
Alangudi is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 7 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.
- Lok Sabha seat
- Sivaganga
- Area
- about 604 km² (from the boundary)
- Turnout 2021
- 79.1%
- Seats sharing a border
- Aranthangi · Peravurani · Pudukkottai · Thirumayam
Election results
| Election | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DMK Siva V. Meyyanathan | 64,929 · 36.0% | TVK Kandasamy | 51,952 · 28.8% | 12,977 (7.2 pts) |
| 2021 | DMK Meyyanathan Siva V | 87,935 · 51.2% | ADMK Dharma. Thangavel | 62,088 · 36.1% | 25,847 (15.0 pts) |
| 2016 | DMK Meyyanathan .Siva .V | 72,992 · 46.2% | ADMK Gnana Kalaiselvan | 63,051 · 39.9% | 9,941 (6.3 pts) |
| 2011 | ADMK Ku. Pa. Krishnan | 57,250 · 41.4% | PMK S. Arulmani | 52,123 · 37.7% | 5,127 (3.7 pts) |
officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.
Attention in the news
Pudukkottai district: mentions per week
Busiest week: 15 June (27 mentions).
articlesvideosweek with a mention of Alangudipaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover
Alangudi itself is named in 7 of the district's 342 mentions (2.0%). The seat is too small to chart alone, so this is the district's picture.
observedCounted weekly in our archive, which starts 1 June 2026; articles are counted from 8 June 2026.
Issues and parties in the news
Pudukkottai district, last 30 days: topics named in the same items
Parties: named in the news, and votes at the polls
Attention follows the week's news; votes follow the seat.
observedofficialTopics and parties: counted in our archive over the last 30 days. Votes: the 2026 election record.
Seats in Pudukkottai district
Pudukkottai| Seat | 2026 winner | Lead (points) | Mentions, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gandarvakottai | TVK | 6.6 | 0 |
| Viralimalai | ADMK | 30.4 | 16 |
| Pudukkottai | DMK | 1.0 | 28† |
| Thirumayam | DMK | 0.8 | 6 |
| Alangudi | DMK | 7.2 | 0 |
| Aranthangi | TVK | 5.5 | 9 |
† Pudukkottai is also the district's name: its count includes news about the whole district.
officialobservedWinners and leads: election records. Mentions: counted in our archive, 30 days.
Latest
From Pudukkottai district, last 30 days: no headline in that time names Alangudi
- தாராபுரத்தில் விரட்டப்பட்ட புதுக்கோட்டை தவெக நிர்வாகிகள்Tamil originalNakkheeran
Sources and method
- Election results, 2026: Election Commission of India (results.eci.gov.in), retrieved 2026-09-28.
- Election results, 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), citing the Election Commission of India, retrieved 2026-10-09. Check applied: the lead equals winner minus runner-up votes and the printed shares agree (702 of 702 seat results passed, 5 corrected from the source's printed totals).
- Vacancies and by-elections: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), retrieved 2026-10-09.
- Boundary: DataMeet (CC BY 2.5 India). Approximate; drawn for orientation, not an official map.
- Mentions are counted in our archive: articles and videos that name the place in the headline (a seat also counts for its district), by the same rules as the Trends pages. The archive starts 1 June 2026; articles are counted from 8 June 2026; earlier months are not in our store.
- official = the Election Commission's own record · compiled = a secondary source, checked against its own totals · observed = counted in our sources · computed = derived from those.