Madurai East
S. Karthikeyan (TVK) is the MLA for Madurai East.
TVK took the seat from DMK in 2026.
In 2026 S. Karthikeyan won with 43.7% of the vote, 16,547 votes ahead of P. Moorthy (DMK).
Madurai East is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 1 mention since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.
- Lok Sabha seat
- Madurai
- Area
- about 313 km² (from the boundary)
- Turnout 2021
- 72.3%
- Seats sharing a border
- Madurai North · Manamadurai · Melur · Natham · Sholavandan · Sivaganga · Thiruparankundram
Election results
| Election | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | TVK S. Karthikeyan | 118,777 · 43.7% | DMK P. Moorthy | 102,230 · 37.6% | 16,547 (6.1 pts) |
| 2021 | DMK P. Moorthy | 122,729 · 51.6% | ADMK Gopalakrishnan | 73,125 · 30.7% | 49,604 (20.9 pts) |
| 2016 | DMK P. Moorthy | 108,569 · 50.6% | ADMK P Pandi | 75,797 · 35.3% | 32,772 (15.3 pts) |
| 2011 | ADMK K. Tamilarasan | 99,447 · 55.3% | DMK P. Moorthy | 70,692 · 39.3% | 28,755 (16.0 pts) |
officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.
Attention in the news
Madurai district: mentions per week
Busiest week: 28 September (593 mentions).
articlesvideosweek with a mention of Madurai Eastpaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover
Madurai East itself is named in 1 of the district's 2,975 mentions (0.0%). 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
Madurai 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 Madurai district
Madurai| Seat | 2026 winner | Lead (points) | Mentions, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melur | INC | 1.4 | 7 |
| Madurai East | TVK | 6.1 | 0 |
| Sholavandan | TVK | 1.4 | 3 |
| Madurai North | TVK | 11.1 | 0 |
| Madurai South | TVK | 15.2 | 0 |
| Madurai Central | TVK | 12.9 | 0 |
| Madurai West | TVK | 5.5 | 0 |
| Thiruparankundram | TVK | 16.3 | 19 |
| Thirumangalam | DMK | 10.3 | 9 |
| Usilampatti | TVK | 0.8 | 16 |
officialobservedWinners and leads: election records. Mentions: counted in our archive, 30 days.
Latest
Latest from Madurai district: no recent headline names Madurai East
- மதுரை மோதல், சொத்து முறைகேடு: முன்னாள் திமுக எம்.எல்.ஏ., முன்ஜாமீன் மனு சிறப்புTamil originalABP 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.