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Bargur

Assembly constituency 52 · General seat · Krishnagiri district

E. C. Govindarasan (ADMK) is the MLA for Bargur.

ADMK took the seat from DMK in 2026.

In 2026 E. C. Govindarasan won with 33.3% of the vote, 4,241 votes ahead of E. Muralidharan (TVK).

Bargur is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 8 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.

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Map of Bargur constituency, Krishnagiri districtBargur drawn on its boundary with the seats around it. Harur, Jolarpet, Krishnagiri, Palacode, Uthangarai, Veppanahalli
Boundaries: DataMeet (CC BY 2.5 India), approximate.
Lok Sabha seat
Krishnagiri
Area
about 617 km² (from the boundary)
Turnout 2021
79.6%
Seats sharing a border
Harur · Jolarpet · Krishnagiri · Palacode · Uthangarai · Veppanahalli

Election results

ElectionWinnerVotesRunner-upVotesMargin
2026ADMK E. C. Govindarasan71,240 · 33.3%TVK E. Muralidharan66,999 · 31.3%4,241 (2.0 pts)
2021DMK D. Mathiazhagan97,256 · 49.2%ADMK A. Krishnan84,642 · 42.8%12,614 (6.4 pts)
2016ADMK V.Rajendran80,650 · 42.9%DMK Govinddarasan.E.C79,668 · 42.4%982 (0.5 pts)
2011ADMK K. E. Krishnamoorthi88,711 · 56.0%PMK T. K. Raja59,271 · 37.4%29,440 (18.6 pts)
Winner's and runner-up's share of the vote at each election

officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.

Attention in the news

Krishnagiri district: mentions per week

Busiest week: 13 July (44 mentions).

articlesvideosweek with a mention of Bargurpaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover

Bargur itself is named in 8 of the district's 444 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

Krishnagiri district, last 30 days: topics named in the same items

Law & Order7
Farmers & Agriculture7
Development & Infrastructure6
Water & Cauvery5
Women's Safety1
Welfare Schemes1

Parties: named in the news, and votes at the polls

Krishnagiri news, 30 daysBargur vote, 2026
ADMK133.3%
TVK731.3%
INC3did not stand
DMK230.5%

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 Krishnagiri district

Krishnagiri
Seat2026 winnerLead (points)Mentions, 30 days
UthangaraiTVK2.54
BargurADMK2.02
KrishnagiriTVK8.262†
VeppanahalliDMK0.10
HosurADMK10.031
ThalliCPI2.55

† Krishnagiri 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

Latest from Krishnagiri district: no recent headline names Bargur

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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.

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