Manapaarai
R. Kathiravan (TVK) is the MLA for Manapaarai.
TVK took the seat from DMK in 2026.
In 2026 R. Kathiravan won with 34.4% of the vote, 1,426 votes ahead of P. L. Vijayakumar (ADMK).
Manapaarai is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 17 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.
- Lok Sabha seat
- Karur
- Area
- about 963 km² (from the boundary)
- Turnout 2021
- 76.5%
- Seats sharing a border
- Krishnarayapuram · Kulithalai · Melur · Natham · Srirangam · Thirumayam · Tiruppattur · Vedasandur · Viralimalai
Election results
| Election | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | TVK R. Kathiravan | 83,041 · 34.4% | ADMK P. L. Vijayakumar | 81,615 · 33.8% | 1,426 (0.6 pts) |
| 2021 | DMK P. Abdul Samad | 98,077 · 44.2% | ADMK Chandraseker. R | 85,834 · 38.7% | 12,243 (5.5 pts) |
| 2016 | ADMK Chandrasekar R | 91,399 · 44.4% | IUML Mohamed Nizam M A | 73,122 · 35.5% | 18,277 (8.9 pts) |
| 2011 | ADMK R. Chandrasekar | 81,020 · 46.8% | IND K. Ponnusamy | 52,721 · 30.4% | 28,299 (16.3 pts) |
officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.
Attention in the news
Tiruchchirappalli district: mentions per week
Busiest week: 1 June (431 mentions).
articlesvideosweek with a mention of Manapaaraipaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover
Manapaarai itself is named in 17 of the district's 1,599 mentions (1.1%). 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
Manapaarai, 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 Tiruchchirappalli district
Tiruchchirappalli| Seat | 2026 winner | Lead (points) | Mentions, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manapaarai | TVK | 0.6 | 8 |
| Srirangam | TVK | 13.2 | 49 |
| Tiruchirappalli (West) | DMK | 2.4 | 0 |
| Tiruchirappalli (East) | TVK | 15.0 | 0 |
| Thiruverumbur | TVK | 4.1 | 2 |
| Lalgudi | ADMK | 1.5 | 4 |
| Manachanallur | DMK | 5.9 | 0 |
| Musiri | TVK | 9.2 | 2 |
| Thuraiyur | TVK | 5.2 | 1 |
officialobservedWinners and leads: election records. Mentions: counted in our archive, 30 days.
Latest
Headlines that name Manapaarai
- மணப்பாறை செல்வராஜை புகழ்ந்த பிரதமர் மோடி.. யார் இந்த திருச்சி ஆய்வாளர்? பின்னணிTamil originalOneindia Tamil
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.