Nilakottai
R. Ayyanar (TVK) is the MLA for Nilakottai.
TVK took the seat from ADMK in 2026.
In 2026 R. Ayyanar won with 34.7% of the vote, 2,925 votes ahead of S. Nagajothi (DMK).
Nilakottai is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 4 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.
- Lok Sabha seat
- Dindigul
- Area
- about 485 km² (from the boundary)
- Turnout 2021
- 75.6%
- Seats sharing a border
- Andipatti · Athoor · Natham · Palani · Periyakulam · Sholavandan · Usilampatti
Election results
| Election | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | TVK R. Ayyanar | 68,580 · 34.7% | DMK S. Nagajothi | 65,655 · 33.2% | 2,925 (1.5 pts) |
| 2021 | ADMK S. Thenmozhi | 91,461 · 49.5% | DMK S. K. Murugavel Rajan | 63,843 · 34.5% | 27,618 (14.9 pts) |
| 2016 | ADMK Thangathurai R | 85,507 · 49.0% | DMK Anbazhagan M | 70,731 · 40.5% | 14,776 (8.5 pts) |
| 2011 | PT A. Ramasamy | 75,124 · 52.5% | INC K. Rajangam | 50,410 · 35.2% | 24,714 (17.3 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 Nilakottaipaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover
Nilakottai itself is named in 4 of the district's 1,205 mentions (0.3%). 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 Nilakottai
- 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.