Tiruvadanai
Rajeev (TVK) is the MLA for Tiruvadanai.
TVK took the seat from INC in 2026.
In 2026 Rajeev won with 31.6% of the vote, 2,513 votes ahead of R. M. Karumanikam (INC).
Tiruvadanai is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 2 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.
- Lok Sabha seat
- Ramanathapuram
- Area
- about 1,116 km² (from the boundary)
- Turnout 2021
- 69.3%
- Seats sharing a border
- Aranthangi · Karaikudi · Manamadurai · Paramakudi · Ramanathapuram · Sivaganga
Election results
| Election | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | TVK Rajeev | 69,551 · 31.6% | INC R. M. Karumanikam | 67,038 · 30.4% | 2,513 (1.1 pts) |
| 2021 | INC R. M. Karumanikam | 79,364 · 39.3% | ADMK K. C. Animuthu | 65,512 · 32.5% | 13,852 (6.9 pts) |
| 2016 | ADMK Karunaas | 76,786 · 41.1% | DMK Thivakaran. S.P | 68,090 · 36.5% | 8,696 (4.7 pts) |
| 2011 | DMK Suba Thangavelan | 64,165 · 41.1% | DMDK S. Mujupur Rahman | 63,238 · 40.5% | 927 (0.6 pts) |
officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.
Attention in the news
Ramanathapuram district: mentions per week
Busiest week: 7 September (32 mentions).
articlesvideosweek with a mention of Tiruvadanaipaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover
Tiruvadanai itself is named in 2 of the district's 193 mentions (1.0%). 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
Ramanathapuram 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 Ramanathapuram district
Ramanathapuram| Seat | 2026 winner | Lead (points) | Mentions, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paramakudi | DMK | 1.9 | 11 |
| Tiruvadanai | TVK | 1.1 | 1 |
| Ramanathapuram | DMK | 5.2 | 62† |
| Mudhukulathur | DMK | 7.2 | 1 |
† Ramanathapuram 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 Ramanathapuram district: no recent headline names Tiruvadanai
- ராமநாதபுரம் அரசு மருத்துவமனையில் பறிபோன பிஞ்சு உயிர்.. கண்ணீருடன் முதல்வர் விஜய்க்கு கோரிக்கைTamil 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.