Thiruthuraipoondi
K. Marimuthu (CPI) is the MLA for Thiruthuraipoondi.
CPI has won Thiruthuraipoondi at 2 elections in a row (2021, 2026).
In 2026 K. Marimuthu won with 38.8% of the vote, 12,922 votes ahead of S. Pandiyan (TVK).
Thiruthuraipoondi is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 12 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.
- Lok Sabha seat
- Nagapattinam
- Area
- about 785 km² (from the boundary)
- Turnout 2021
- 77.4%
- Seats sharing a border
- Kilvelur · Mannargudi · Pattukkottai · Thiruvarur · Vedaranyam
Election results
| Election | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CPI K. Marimuthu | 74,062 · 38.8% | TVK S. Pandiyan | 61,140 · 32.0% | 12,922 (6.8 pts) |
| 2021 | CPI K. Marimuthu | 97,092 · 52.2% | ADMK C. Suresh Kumar | 67,024 · 36.1% | 30,068 (16.2 pts) |
| 2016 | DMK Adalarasan. P | 72,127 · 41.1% | ADMK Umamaheswari. K | 58,877 · 33.5% | 13,250 (7.5 pts) |
| 2011 | CPI K. Ulaganathan | 83,399 · 53.4% | INC P. Selvadurai | 61,112 · 39.1% | 22,287 (14.3 pts) |
officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.
Attention in the news
Tiruvarur district: mentions per week
Busiest week: 5 October (30 mentions).
articlesvideosweek with a mention of Thiruthuraipoondipaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover
Thiruthuraipoondi itself is named in 12 of the district's 266 mentions (4.5%). 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
Thiruthuraipoondi, 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 Tiruvarur district
Tiruvarur| Seat | 2026 winner | Lead (points) | Mentions, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thiruthuraipoondi | CPI | 6.8 | 10 |
| Mannargudi | AMMK | 0.8 | 9 |
| Thiruvarur | DMK | 8.3 | 69 |
| Nannilam | ADMK | 18.0 | 0 |
officialobservedWinners and leads: election records. Mentions: counted in our archive, 30 days.
Latest
Headlines that name Thiruthuraipoondi
- திருத்துறைப்பூண்டி அருகே கைத்துப்பாக்கி, பட்டாக்கத்தியுடன் கார்களில் வந்த 7 பேர் கைதுTamil originalHindu Tamil Thisai
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.