Aruppukkottai
Sattur Ramachandran (DMK) is the MLA for Aruppukkottai.
DMK has won Aruppukkottai at 3 elections in a row (2016, 2021, 2026).
In 2026 Sattur Ramachandran won with 36.5% of the vote, 4,943 votes ahead of K. Karthik Kumar (TVK).
Aruppukkottai is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 9 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.
- Lok Sabha seat
- Virudhunagar
- Area
- about 716 km² (from the boundary)
- Turnout 2021
- 76.5%
- Seats sharing a border
- Kovilpatti · Sattur · Tiruchuli · Vilathikulam · Virudhunagar
Election results
| Election | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DMK Sattur Ramachandran | 65,104 · 36.5% | TVK K. Karthik Kumar | 60,161 · 33.7% | 4,943 (2.8 pts) |
| 2021 | DMK Sattur Ramachandran | 91,040 · 53.2% | ADMK Vaigaichelvan | 52,006 · 30.4% | 39,034 (22.8 pts) |
| 2016 | DMK Ramachandran K.K.S.S.R | 81,485 · 49.4% | ADMK Vaigaichelvan.Dr | 63,431 · 38.5% | 18,054 (10.9 pts) |
| 2011 | ADMK Vaigaichelvan | 76,546 · 51.1% | DMK Ramachandran | 65,908 · 44.0% | 10,638 (7.1 pts) |
officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.
Attention in the news
Virudhunagar district: mentions per week
Busiest week: 20 July (46 mentions).
articlesvideosweek with a mention of Aruppukkottaipaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover
Aruppukkottai itself is named in 9 of the district's 495 mentions (1.8%). 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
Virudhunagar 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 Virudhunagar district
Virudhunagar| Seat | 2026 winner | Lead (points) | Mentions, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rajapalayam | TVK | 5.8 | 12 |
| Srivilliputhur | TVK | 4.4 | 9 |
| Sattur | DMK | 3.0 | 3 |
| Sivakasi | TVK | 6.0 | 46 |
| Virudhunagar | TVK | 5.6 | 35† |
| Aruppukkottai | DMK | 2.8 | 2 |
| Tiruchuli | DMK | 7.4 | 1 |
† Virudhunagar 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 Virudhunagar district, last 30 days: no headline in that time names Aruppukkottai
- லஞ்ச வழக்கில் கைதான விருதுநகர் சுகாதாரத் துறை துணை இயக்குநரின் வீட்டில் சோதனைTamil originalHindu Tamil Thisai
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.