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Jolarpet

Assembly constituency 49 · General seat · Tirupathur district

K. C. Veeramani (ADMK) is the MLA for Jolarpet.

ADMK took the seat from DMK in 2026.

In 2026 K. C. Veeramani won with 36.9% of the vote, 16,083 votes ahead of C. Munisamy (TVK).

Jolarpet is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 13 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.

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Map of Jolarpet constituency, Tirupathur districtJolarpet drawn on its boundary with the seats around it. Bargur, Tiruppattur, Vaniyambadi
Boundaries: DataMeet (CC BY 2.5 India), approximate.
Lok Sabha seat
Tiruvannamalai
Area
about 442 km² (from the boundary)
Turnout 2021
81.5%
Seats sharing a border
Bargur · Tiruppattur · Vaniyambadi

Election results

ElectionWinnerVotesRunner-upVotesMargin
2026ADMK K. C. Veeramani78,633 · 36.9%TVK C. Munisamy62,550 · 29.4%16,083 (7.5 pts)
2021DMK K. Devaraji89,490 · 45.6%ADMK K. C. Veeramani88,399 · 45.0%1,091 (0.5 pts)
2016ADMK Veeramani. K. C82,525 · 45.6%DMK Kavitha.C71,534 · 39.5%10,991 (6.1 pts)
2011ADMK K. C. Veeramani86,273 · 55.1%PMK G. Ponnusamy63,337 · 40.5%22,936 (14.7 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

Tirupathur district: mentions per week

Busiest week: 28 September (15 mentions).

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

Jolarpet itself is named in 13 of the district's 197 mentions (6.6%). 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

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

Law & Order5
Corruption5
Education4
Water & Cauvery2
TASMAC & Liquor Shops1
Power Cuts & Electricity1

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

Tirupathur news, 30 daysJolarpet vote, 2026
ADMKnot named36.9%
TVK329.4%
DMK129.1%

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 Tirupathur district

Tirupathur
Seat2026 winnerLead (points)Mentions, 30 days
VaniyambadiIUML1.418
AmburDMK3.612
JolarpetADMK7.55
TiruppatturTVK23.822

officialobservedWinners and leads: election records. Mentions: counted in our archive, 30 days.

Latest

Latest from Tirupathur district: no recent headline names Jolarpet

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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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