Counting of votes in TN and Puducherry to begin at 8 a.m.
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Chennai: Polling officials busy counting votes cast during 2019 Lok Sabha polls, at a counting centre, in Chennai, on May 23, 2019. . Image Source: IANS News
Chennai, May 2 : Counting of votes polled in the April 6 Tamil Nadu assembly election will begin at 8 a.m on Sunday.
A total of 3,998 candidates are fighting it out to enter the 234-member Tamil Nadu assembly.
As per the Election Commission of India, 72.81 per cent 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.
A total of 3,998 candidates are fighting it out to enter the 234-member Tamil Nadu assembly. As per the Election Commission of India, 72.81 per cent 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. The bypoll was fought mainly between former Union Minister and BJP s Pon Radhakrishnan and Congress candidate Vijay Vasanth, son of late MP H. Vasanth Kumar. The assembly poll results will be crucial for the ruling AIADMK government led by Chief Minister K. Palaniswami and the principal opposition party DMK led by M.K. Stalin.
DMK set in the west of Tamil Nadu in 2016. Will the party s sun rise in 2021?
DMK set in the west of Tamil Nadu in 2016. Will the party s sun rise in 2021?
In the 2016 election, while the DMK was able to run the AIADMK close in most regions of Tamil Nadu, the party of the rising sun set in western Tamil Nadu.
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UPDATED: April 5, 2021 14:46 IST
DMK chief MK Stalin and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami. Tamil Nadu goes to polls on April 6 (File)
Those who followed the Assembly election results in Tamil Nadu in May 2016 would remember how at one stage, it was a close race between the two main Dravidian parties. While the DMK was able to run the AIADMK close in most regions of Tamil Nadu, the party of the rising sun set in western Tamil Nadu. Of the 50 assembly seats in seven districts in the region, the DMK managed to win only 8 and the Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK romped home in 42.