Kadayanallur
T. M. Rajendran (DMK) is the MLA for Kadayanallur.
DMK took the seat from ADMK in 2026.
In 2026 T. M. Rajendran won with 36.0% of the vote, 6,253 votes ahead of C. Krishnamurali (ADMK).
Kadayanallur is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 11 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.
- Lok Sabha seat
- Tenkasi
- Area
- about 514 km² (from the boundary)
- Turnout 2021
- 70.7%
- Seats sharing a border
- Sankarankovil · Tenkasi · Vasudevanallur
Election results
| Election | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DMK T. M. Rajendran | 79,832 · 36.0% | ADMK C. Krishnamurali | 73,579 · 33.1% | 6,253 (2.8 pts) |
| 2021 | ADMK C. Krishnamurali | 88,474 · 43.1% | IUML K. A. M. Muhammed Abubacker | 64,125 · 31.2% | 24,349 (11.9 pts) |
| 2016 | IUML K. A. M. Muhammed Abubacker | 70,763 · 37.5% | ADMK Sheik Dawood. S | 69,569 · 36.9% | 1,194 (0.6 pts) |
| 2011 | ADMK P. Chendur Pandian | 80,794 · 49.8% | INC S. Peter Alphonse | 64,708 · 39.9% | 16,086 (9.9 pts) |
officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.
Attention in the news
Tenkasi district: mentions per week
Busiest week: 1 June (22 mentions).
articlesvideosweek with a mention of Kadayanallurpaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover
Kadayanallur itself is named in 11 of the district's 235 mentions (4.7%). 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
Kadayanallur, 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 Tenkasi district
Tenkasi| Seat | 2026 winner | Lead (points) | Mentions, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sankarankovil | ADMK | 3.3 | 3 |
| Vasudevanallur | DMK | 3.5 | 0 |
| Kadayanallur | DMK | 2.8 | 8 |
| Tenkasi | DMK | 4.4 | 58† |
| Alangulam | DMK | 3.5 | 1 |
† Tenkasi 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
Headlines that name Kadayanallur
- Qdenga: இந்தியாவின் முதல் டெங்கு தடுப்பூசி கியூடெங்கா! கடையநல்லூரில் சோதனை முயற்சி!Tamil originalOneindia Tamil
- டெங்கி தடுப்பூசி கடையநல்லூரில் அறிமுகம்: தமிழக அரசின் நடவடிக்கைTamil Murasu (SG)
- கடையநல்லூர் தொகுதி எம்எல்ஏ மீது நில மோசடி வழக்குTamil originalHindu Tamil Thisai
- DMK MLA: மாற்றுத்திறனாளி நிலத்தை அபகரித்த திமுக எம்.எல்.ஏ.,? கடையநல்லூர் ராஜேந்திரன்ABP Nadu
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.