Natham
Natham R. Viswanathan (ADMK) is the MLA for Natham.
ADMK has won Natham at 2 elections in a row (2021, 2026).
In 2026 Natham R. Viswanathan won with 35.8% of the vote, 11,869 votes ahead of K. Selvakumar (DMK).
Natham is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 7 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.
- Lok Sabha seat
- Dindigul
- Area
- about 1,132 km² (from the boundary)
- Turnout 2021
- 79.4%
- Seats sharing a border
- Athoor · Dindigul · Madurai East · Manapaarai · Melur · Nilakottai · Sholavandan · Vedasandur
Election results
| Election | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | ADMK Natham R. Viswanathan | 85,708 · 35.8% | DMK K. Selvakumar | 73,839 · 30.9% | 11,869 (5.0 pts) |
| 2021 | ADMK Natham R. Viswanathan | 107,762 · 47.8% | DMK M. A. Andi Ambalam | 95,830 · 42.5% | 11,932 (5.3 pts) |
| 2016 | DMK Andi Ambalam M.A | 93,822 · 45.3% | ADMK Shajahan S | 91,712 · 44.3% | 2,110 (1.0 pts) |
| 2011 | ADMK Natham R. Viswanathan | 94,947 · 53.9% | DMK K. Vijayan | 41,858 · 23.8% | 53,089 (30.1 pts) |
officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.
Attention in the news
Dindigul district: mentions per week
Busiest week: 13 July (290 mentions).
articlesvideosweek with a mention of Nathampaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover
Natham itself is named in 7 of the district's 1,205 mentions (0.6%). 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
Dindigul 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 Dindigul district
Dindigul| Seat | 2026 winner | Lead (points) | Mentions, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palani | ADMK | 0.3 | 101 |
| Oddanchatram | DMK | 21.5 | 2 |
| Athoor | DMK | 9.4 | 3 |
| Nilakottai | TVK | 1.5 | 2 |
| Natham | ADMK | 5.0 | 0 |
| Dindigul | DMK | 0.5 | 115† |
| Vedasandur | DMK | 4.5 | 4 |
† Dindigul 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 Dindigul district: no recent headline names Natham
- திமுக மாநில நிர்வாகி வி.ஜெயன் கட்சியில் இருந்து விலகல்.. திண்டுக்கல் மாவட்ட திமுகவில் சலசலப்பு!Tamil 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.