Sattur
A. Kadarkarairaj (DMK) is the MLA for Sattur.
DMK has won Sattur at 2 elections in a row (2021, 2026).
In 2026 A. Kadarkarairaj won with 31.2% of the vote, 5,989 votes ahead of Nainar Nagendran (BJP).
Sattur is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 23 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.
- Lok Sabha seat
- Virudhunagar
- Area
- about 644 km² (from the boundary)
- Turnout 2021
- 75.7%
- Seats sharing a border
- Aruppukkottai · Rajapalayam · Sankarankovil · Sivakasi · Srivilliputhur · Vasudevanallur · Virudhunagar
Election results
| Election | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DMK A. Kadarkarairaj | 62,060 · 31.2% | BJP Nainar Nagendran | 56,071 · 28.2% | 5,989 (3.0 pts) |
| 2021 | DMK A. R. R. Raghuraman | 74,174 · 38.7% | ADMK R. K. Ravichandran | 62,995 · 32.9% | 11,179 (5.8 pts) |
| 2016 | ADMK S. G. Subramanian | 71,513 · 40.6% | DMK Srinivasan.V. | 67,086 · 38.1% | 4,427 (2.5 pts) |
| 2011 | ADMK R. B. Udhayakumar | 88,918 · 58.3% | DMK A. Kadarkarairaj | 59,573 · 39.1% | 29,345 (19.2 pts) |
officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.
Attention in the news
Sattur: mentions per week
Busiest week: 22 June (2 mentions).
articlesvideospaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover
23 mentions of Sattur since 1 June 2026 from 6 outlets.
observedCounted weekly in our archive, which starts 1 June 2026; articles are counted from 8 June 2026.
Issues and parties in the news
Virudhunagar 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 Virudhunagar district
Virudhunagar| Seat | 2026 winner | Lead (points) | Mentions, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rajapalayam | TVK | 5.8 | 12 |
| Srivilliputhur | TVK | 4.4 | 9 |
| Sattur | DMK | 3.0 | 3 |
| Sivakasi | TVK | 6.0 | 46 |
| Virudhunagar | TVK | 5.6 | 35† |
| Aruppukkottai | DMK | 2.8 | 2 |
| Tiruchuli | DMK | 7.4 | 1 |
† Virudhunagar 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 Sattur
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.