Bodinayakanur
O. Panneerselvam (DMK) is the MLA for Bodinayakanur.
DMK took the seat from ADMK in 2026.
In 2026 O. Panneerselvam won with 38.6% of the vote, 6,805 votes ahead of S. Prakash (TVK).
Bodinayakanur is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 4 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.
- Lok Sabha seat
- Theni
- Area
- about 732 km² (from the boundary)
- Turnout 2021
- 77.0%
- Seats sharing a border
- Andipatti · Cumbum · Palani · Periyakulam
Election results
| Election | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DMK O. Panneerselvam | 85,206 · 38.6% | TVK S. Prakash | 78,401 · 35.5% | 6,805 (3.1 pts) |
| 2021 | ADMK O. Panneerselvam | 100,050 · 46.6% | DMK Thanga Tamil Selvan | 89,029 · 41.5% | 11,021 (5.1 pts) |
| 2016 | ADMK O. Panneerselvam | 99,531 · 49.4% | DMK S. Lakshmanan | 83,923 · 41.6% | 15,608 (7.8 pts) |
| 2011 | ADMK O. Panneerselvam | 95,235 · 56.7% | DMK S. Lakshmanan | 65,329 · 38.9% | 29,906 (17.8 pts) |
officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.
Attention in the news
Theni district: mentions per week
Busiest week: 8 June (45 mentions).
articlesvideosweek with a mention of Bodinayakanurpaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover
Bodinayakanur itself is named in 4 of the district's 386 mentions (1.0%). 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
Theni 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 Theni district
Theni| Seat | 2026 winner | Lead (points) | Mentions, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andipatti | DMK | 4.4 | 4 |
| Periyakulam | TVK | 9.2 | 1 |
| Bodinayakanur | DMK | 3.1 | 1 |
| Cumbum | TVK | 0.3 | 8 |
officialobservedWinners and leads: election records. Mentions: counted in our archive, 30 days.
Latest
Latest from Theni district: no recent headline names Bodinayakanur
- தேனி சின்னவாய்க்காலில் இடுப்பளவு தண்ணீரில் இறங்கி கைகளாலேயே குப்பை அள்ளிய கம்பம் எம்எல்ஏ ஜெகநாத்!Tamil originalOneindia Tamil
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.