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Krishnarayapuram

Assembly constituency 136 · Reserved for Scheduled Castes · Karur district

Sathya. M. (TVK) is the MLA for Krishnarayapuram.

TVK took the seat from DMK in 2026.

In 2026 Sathya. M. won with 32.9% of the vote, 3,503 votes ahead of S. Dhivya (ADMK).

Krishnarayapuram is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 3 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.

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Map of Krishnarayapuram constituency, Karur districtKrishnarayapuram drawn on its boundary with the seats around it. Aravakurichi, Karur, Kulithalai, Manapaarai, Musiri, Vedasandur
Boundaries: DataMeet (CC BY 2.5 India), approximate.
Lok Sabha seat
Karur
Area
about 900 km² (from the boundary)
Turnout 2021
84.9%
Seats sharing a border
Aravakurichi · Karur · Kulithalai · Manapaarai · Musiri · Vedasandur

Election results

ElectionWinnerVotesRunner-upVotesMargin
2026TVK Sathya. M.62,378 · 32.9%ADMK S. Dhivya58,875 · 31.1%3,503 (1.8 pts)
2021DMK K. Sivagama Sundari96,540 · 53.4%†ADMK N. Muthukumar (A) Thanesh64,915 · 35.9%31,625 (17.5 pts)
2016ADMK Geetha . M.83,977 · 49.8%PT Aiyyar . V. K.48,676 · 28.9%35,301 (20.9 pts)
2011ADMK S. Kamaraj83,145 · 54.8%DMK P. Kamaraj60,636 · 40.0%22,509 (14.8 pts)

† Corrected from the source's own printed totals.

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

Karur district: mentions per week

Busiest week: 6 July (905 mentions).

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

Krishnarayapuram itself is named in 3 of the district's 1,820 mentions (0.2%). 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

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

Law & Order20
Elections & Bypolls5
Water & Cauvery4
Health & Hospitals3
Education3
Development & Infrastructure3

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

Karur news, 30 daysKrishnarayapuram vote, 2026
TVK4032.9%
ADMK431.1%
DMK930.3%
BJP1did not stand

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 Karur district

Karur
Seat2026 winnerLead (points)Mentions, 30 days
AravakurichiDMK10.70
KarurADMK0.8221†
KrishnarayapuramTVK1.81
KulithalaiDMK0.36

† Karur 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 Karur district: no recent headline names Krishnarayapuram

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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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