Tamil Nadu assembly election, May 2016

232 assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu, 74.76% turnout.

Seats

232

Candidates

3,728

320 women, 21 elected

Turnout

74.76%

4.32 cr of 5.78 cr

Leading party

ADMK

134 of 232 seats

Party performance

Ordered by seats won in Tamil Nadu

Party	Won	+/−	Contested	Votes	Share	Share +/−
ADMK All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	134	-16	232	1,76,16,266	40.77%	+2.37
DMK Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	89	+66	178	1,36,69,116	31.64%	+9.25
INC Indian National Congress	8	+3	41	27,74,075	6.42%	-2.88
IUML Indian Union Muslim League	1	+1	5	3,13,808	0.73%	—
PMK Pattali Makkal Katchi	0	-3	230	23,00,558	5.32%	+0.09
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party	0	0	187	12,28,704	2.84%	+0.62
DMDK DMDK	0	-29	103	10,34,384	2.39%	-5.49
IND Independent	0	0	1547	6,17,898	1.43%	-3.02
NTK NTK	0	0	229	4,58,007	1.06%	—
MDMK Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	0	0	28	3,73,606	0.86%	—
CPI Communist Party of India	0	-9	25	3,40,290	0.79%	-1.19
VCK Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi	0	0	25	3,31,849	0.77%	-0.74
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)	0	-10	27	3,07,681	0.71%	-1.70
TMCM TMCM	0	0	26	2,30,711	0.53%	—
PT PT	0	-2	4	2,19,830	0.51%	+0.11
MAMAK MAMAK	0	-2	4	1,97,150	0.46%	-0.04
KMDK KMDK	0	0	70	1,67,560	0.39%	—
BSP Bahujan Samaj Party	0	0	156	97,823	0.23%	-0.31
SDPI Social Democratic Party of India	0	0	28	65,985	0.15%	+0.10
AIFB AIFB	0	-1	33	44,546	0.10%	-0.14
IJK IJK	0	0	43	36,125	0.08%	-0.51
TAVK TAVK	0	0	15	34,012	0.08%	—
TMMK Tamizhaga Murpokku Makkal Katchi	0	0	50	28,864	0.07%	-0.02
SHS Shiv Sena	0	0	36	13,640	0.03%	+0.03
NCP Nationalist Congress Party	0	0	20	11,842	0.03%	—
GMI GMI	0	0	40	11,683	0.03%	—
YSP YSP	0	0	35	10,354	0.02%	+0.02
AIMIM All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen	0	0	2	10,289	0.02%	—
SUNP SUNP	0	0	1	7,640	0.02%	—
AIFBS AIFBS	0	0	2	5,950	0.01%	—
ETMK ETMK	0	0	6	5,257	0.01%	—
WPOI WPOI	0	0	12	5,231	0.01%	—
CPI(ML)(L)CPI(ML)(L)	0	0	10	4,972	0.01%	-0.01
PPIS PPIS	0	0	25	4,841	0.01%	-0.01
SP Samajwadi Party	0	0	26	4,464	0.01%	—
LJP Lok Janshakti Party	0	0	23	4,146	0.01%	-0.02
IDMMK IDMMK	0	0	11	4,026	0.01%	—
UCPI UCPI	0	0	15	3,902	0.01%	0.00
VBMP VBMP	0	0	11	3,519	0.01%	—
GOKMK GOKMK	0	0	8	3,357	0.01%	—

ADMK134 (58%)
DMK89 (38%)
INC8 (3%)
IUML1 (0%)

ADMK134
DMK89
INC8
IUML1

ADMK134
DMK89
INC8
IUML1

Constituency performance

From the 232 results in Tamil Nadu

Closest contest

RADHAPURAM

won by 49 (0.03%)

Biggest victory

THIRUVARUR

won by 68,366 (34.74%)

Highest turnout

PALACODE

88.57%

Lowest turnout

HARBOUR

55.40%

Seat change

Against Tamil Nadu's previous Vidhan Sabha election (2011), matched constituency-for-constituency

Retained113 (49%)
Changed hands119 (51%)

113 constituencies were won by the same party as last time; 119 changed hands.

India’s constituencies have not been redrawn since the 2008 delimitation, so this compares the same seat boundary both times.

Vote share & turnout trend

Tamil Nadu, every Vidhan Sabha election on record

VOTE SHARE

ADMK
DMK
INC
IUML

TURNOUT

Assembly seat results

All 232 seats, alphabetical · showing 1–50 of 232

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
ALANDUR	DMKANBARASAN T.M.	ADMKRAMACHANDRAN S.	19,1698.83%	61.7%
ALANGUDI	DMKMEYYANATHAN .SIVA .V	ADMKGNANA KALAISELVAN	9,9416.29%	79.5%
ALANGULAM	DMKDR. POONGOTHAI ALADI ARUNA	ADMKHEPZI KARTHIKEYAN	4,7542.46%	79.0%
AMBASAMUDRAM	ADMKR. MURUGAIAH PANDIAN	DMKAVUDAIAPPAN. R	13,1667.68%	73.0%
AMBATTUR	ADMKALEXANDER V	INCAASSAN MAULAANA	17,4987.62%	63.9%
AMBUR	ADMKBALASUBRAMANIR.(E)	MAMAKNAZEER AHMEDV.R.	28,00617.39%	75.9%
ANAIKATTU	DMKNANDAKUMAR. A.P	ADMKKALAIARASU. M	8,7684.83%	78.3%
ANDIPATTI	ADMKTHANGATAMILSELVAM	DMKMOOKAIAH.L	30,19615.20%	78.3%
ANNA NAGAR	DMKMOHAN M.K.	ADMKGOKULAINDIRA S	1,0860.64%	60.0%
ANTHIYUR	ADMKE.M.R.RAJA ALIAS RAJAKRISHNAN.K.R	DMKVENKATACHALAM A G	5,3123.13%	81.7%
ARAKONAM	ADMKRAVI S	DMKRAJKUMAR N	4,1612.52%	75.3%
ARANI	ADMKRAMACHANDRAN S	DMKBABU S	7,3273.50%	81.8%
ARANTANGI	ADMKRATHINASABHAPATHY E	INCRAMACHANDRAN T	2,2911.48%	72.1%
ARCOT	DMKESWARAPPAN J L	ADMKRAMADOSS.K.V	11,0915.45%	82.4%
ARIYALUR	ADMKRAJENDRAN. S	DMKSIVASANKAR. S.S	2,0430.97%	84.9%
ARUPPUKOTTAI	DMKRAMACHANDRAN.K.K.S.S.R	ADMKVAIGAICHELVAN.DR	18,05410.95%	79.2%
ATHOOR	DMKPERIYASAMY I	ADMKVISWANATHAN R NATHAM	27,14711.84%	85.3%
ATTUR	ADMKCHINNATHAMBI R M	INCARTHANARI S K	17,3349.28%	79.8%
AVADI	ADMKPANDIA RAJAN K	DMKNASAR S M	1,3950.52%	67.9%
AVANASHI	ADMKDHANAPAL P	DMKANANDHAN E	30,67415.81%	77.8%
BARGUR	ADMKV.RAJENDRAN	DMKGOVINDDARASAN.E.C	9820.52%	82.2%
BHAVANI	ADMKKARUPPANAN K C	DMKSIVAKUMAR N	24,88713.17%	82.8%
BHAVANISAGAR	ADMKESWARAN.S	DMKSATHYA.R	13,1046.67%	82.0%
BHUVANAGIRI	DMKSARAVANAN DURAI K.	ADMKSELVI RAMAJAYAM	5,4882.88%	79.9%
BODINAYAKANUR	ADMKO. PANNEERSELVAM	DMKS. LAKSHMANAN	15,6087.74%	78.3%
CHENGALPATTU	DMKVARALAKSHMI.M	ADMKKAMALAKKANNAN.R	26,29210.53%	67.3%
CHENGAM	DMKGIRI .M.P	ADMKDINAGARAN. M	12,6916.03%	84.2%
CHEPAUK-THIRUVALLIKENI	DMKJ.ANBAZHAGAN	ADMKA.NOORJAHAN	14,1649.86%	62.3%
CHEYYAR	ADMKMOHAN K	INCDR. VISHNUPRASAD M K	8,5274.14%	84.7%
CHEYYUR	DMKARASU R T	ADMKMUNUSAMY A	3040.18%	80.1%
CHIDAMBARAM	ADMKPANDIAN K A	DMKSENTHILKUMAR K R	1,5060.88%	74.5%
COIMBATORE (NORTH)	ADMKARUN KUMAR P.R.G.	DMKS.MEENALOGU	7,7244.09%	62.1%
COIMBATORE (SOUTH)	ADMKARJUNAN @ AMMAN ARJUNANK.	INCMAYURA JAYAKUMARS.	17,41911.35%	62.6%
COLACHEL	INCPRINCE J.G.	BJPRAMESH P	26,02815.57%	63.8%
COONOOR	ADMKRAMU A.	DMKMUBARAK B. M.	3,7102.75%	71.7%
CUDDALORE	ADMKSAMPATH M C	DMKPUGAZHENDI ELA	24,41314.14%	74.7%
CUMBUM	ADMKS.T.K.JAKKAIYAN	DMKCUMBUM.NRAMAKRISHNAN	11,2215.78%	73.8%
DHARAPURAM	INCKALIMUTHU. V.S	ADMKPONNUSAMY. K	10,0175.48%	76.8%
DHARMAPURI	DMKSUBRAMANI. P.	ADMKELANGOVAN. P.D.	9,6764.66%	82.2%
DINDIGUL	ADMKSREENIVASAN C	DMKBASHEER AHAMED M	20,71911.17%	74.5%
DR.RADHAKRISHNAN NAGAR	ADMKJAYALALITHAA J	DMKSHIMLA MUTHUCHOZHAN	39,54522.73%	68.4%
EDAPADI	ADMKPALANISWAMI. K	PMKANNADURAI. N	42,02218.62%	86.3%
EGMORE	DMKRAVICHANDRAN K.S	ADMKPARITHI ELLAMVAZHUTHI E	10,6798.85%	63.0%
ERODE (EAST)	ADMKTHENNARASU K S	DMKCHANDHIRAKUMAR V C	7,7945.27%	69.6%
ERODE (WEST)	ADMKRAMALINGAM K.V.	DMKMUTHUSAMY S	4,9062.59%	73.9%
GANDHARVAKOTTAI	ADMKARUMUGAM.B	DMKANBARASAN.K	3,0472.09%	78.2%
GANGAVALLI	ADMKMARUTHAMUTHU.A	DMKREKHA PRIYADHARSHINI.J	2,2621.29%	80.4%
GINGEE	DMKMASTHAN K S	ADMKGOVINDASAMY A	22,05710.97%	80.0%
GOBICHETTIPALAYAM	ADMKSENGOTTAIYAN K.A	INCSARAVANAN S.V	11,2235.48%	84.3%
GUDALUR	DMKTHIRAVIDAMANIM.	ADMKKALAISELVAN S.	13,37910.21%	72.8%

Vote share and swing on this page are the party’s share of valid votes in Tamil Nadu alone — a different number from its national or all-state figures, and never mixed with them.