Kulithalai
Suriyanur A. Chandran (DMK) is the MLA for Kulithalai.
DMK has won Kulithalai at 3 elections in a row (2016, 2021, 2026).
In 2026 Suriyanur A. Chandran won with 32.6% of the vote, 579 votes ahead of G. Balasubramani (TVK).
Kulithalai is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 19 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.
- Lok Sabha seat
- Perambalur
- Area
- about 734 km² (from the boundary)
- Turnout 2021
- 86.9%
- Seats sharing a border
- Krishnarayapuram · Manapaarai · Musiri · Srirangam
Election results
| Election | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DMK Suriyanur A. Chandran | 68,138 · 32.6% | TVK G. Balasubramani | 67,559 · 32.3% | 579 (0.3 pts) |
| 2021 | DMK R. Manickam | 100,829 · 51.1% | ADMK N. R. Chandrasekar | 77,289 · 39.1% | 23,540 (11.9 pts) |
| 2016 | DMK Ramar .E | 89,923 · 48.9% | ADMK Chandrasekaran .R | 78,027 · 42.4% | 11,896 (6.5 pts) |
| 2011 | ADMK A. Pappa Sundaram | 87,459 · 54.8% | DMK R. Manickam | 64,986 · 40.7% | 22,473 (14.1 pts) |
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 Kulithalaipaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover
Kulithalai itself is named in 19 of the district's 1,820 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
Karur 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 Karur district
Karur| Seat | 2026 winner | Lead (points) | Mentions, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aravakurichi | DMK | 10.7 | 0 |
| Karur | ADMK | 0.8 | 221† |
| Krishnarayapuram | TVK | 1.8 | 1 |
| Kulithalai | DMK | 0.3 | 6 |
† 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
Headlines that name Kulithalai
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.