Assembly Election 2021: Counting of votes in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry begins
While counting began at 8 am, by noon the trend will be known as to who would storm the Fort St. George. Image for representation , Zee News
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Updated: May 2, 2021, 08:06 AM IST
The electoral fate of 3,998 candidates who fought in the April 6 Tamil Nadu assembly polls will be known on Sunday, May 2. While it will be a celebration day for the 234-successful candidates and also for the winning political party/combination, one can also hear Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! cries from some others.
As per the Election Commission of India, 72.81 percent of the 6.29 crore voters have cast their votes in the poll. Apart from the Assembly election results, the bypoll results for the Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha constituency will also be known on Sunday.
Tamil Nadu Election Results 2021 Live Updates: Counting of votes for 234-member assembly begins
08:08 AM IST: Tamil Nadu Election Results 2021: The counting of the votes has begin in Tamil Nadu. The early trends will start tricking in a few moments later.
07:33 AM IST: Counting of votes is likely to be delayed owing to the strict adherence of the Covid-19 SOPs. The counting centers will also be sanitised once every two hours. As many as 35,836 policemen have been deployed across counting venue in the state. A total of 5,64,253 postal votes have been registered. (With inputs from Pramod Madhav)
07:15 AM IST: From 1989 till 2016 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa alternated in running the government. In 2016, Jayalalithaa broke the alternating pattern to win back-to-back Tamil Nadu elections. But later that year, she passed away. Her arch-rival Karunanidhi passed away in 2018. The AIADMK did not go to Jayalalithaa’s close aide VK Sasikala, and Chief Minist