Jayankondam
G. Vaithilingam (PMK) is the MLA for Jayankondam.
PMK took the seat from DMK in 2026.
In 2026 G. Vaithilingam won with 38.9% of the vote, 18,490 votes ahead of Ka. So. Ka. Kannan (DMK).
Jayankondam 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.
- Lok Sabha seat
- Chidambaram
- Area
- about 724 km² (from the boundary)
- Turnout 2021
- 81.1%
- Seats sharing a border
- Ariyalur · Kattumannarkoil · Kunnam · Thiruvidaimarudur · Tittakudi · Virudhachalam
Election results
| Election | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | PMK G. Vaithilingam | 88,992 · 38.9% | DMK Ka. So. Ka. Kannan | 70,502 · 30.9% | 18,490 (8.1 pts) |
| 2021 | DMK Ka. So. Ka. Kannan | 99,529 · 46.0% | PMK K. Balu | 94,077 · 43.5% | 5,452 (2.5 pts) |
| 2016 | ADMK Ramajeyalingam.J.K.N | 75,672 · 37.1% | PMK Guru @ Gurunathan.J | 52,738 · 25.9% | 22,934 (11.2 pts) |
| 2011 | PMK J. Guru | 92,739 · 51.5% | ADMK P. Elavazhagan | 77,601 · 43.1% | 15,138 (8.4 pts) |
officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.
Attention in the news
Ariyalur district: mentions per week
Busiest week: 5 October (13 mentions).
articlesvideosweek with a mention of Jayankondampaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover
Jayankondam itself is named in 8 of the district's 92 mentions (8.7%). 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
Ariyalur 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 Ariyalur district
Ariyalur| Seat | 2026 winner | Lead (points) | Mentions, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ariyalur | ADMK | 10.4 | 42† |
| Jayankondam | PMK | 8.1 | 1 |
† Ariyalur 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 Ariyalur district, last 30 days: no headline in that time names Jayankondam
- 3 தொழிலாளர்களின் குடும்பத்துக்கு இழப்பீடு கோரி அரியலூர் ஆட்சியர் அலுவலகத்தில் போராட்டத்தில் ஈடுபட்டோர் கைதுTamil originalHindu Tamil Thisai
- Three workers die of suffocation in Ariyalur, police detain house ownerThe Hindu National
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.