Edappadi K Palaniswami has continued his winning streak in the Edappadi assembly segment marking a hat-trick victory.
Palaniswami retained his seat with one of the highest victory margins that the state saw in this election, but one of the lowest for EPS compared to his winning margins in 2016 and 2011 elections.
He had polled 1,63,154 votes while his opponent of DMK candidate T Sampath Kumar was polled 69,352, accounting for a margin of 93,802 votes. Right from the counting of postal votes began, EPS was way ahead of Sampath Kumar. His margin only grew with every passing round.
However, EPS stay put at his house throughout the day. Palaniswami did not visit the counting centre and chose not to entertain any visitors at his house at Nedunchalai Nagar near Suramangalam in Salem city since morning.
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The voting for the 234 assembly seats on April 6 witnessed a 72.81% turnout.
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New Delhi:Â With counting of votes underway, the DMK is currently leading in 117 and its allies in 19 of the state’s 234 seats, and the AIADMK alliance is leading in 94 seats.
As per the available data on the EC site, the DMK appears on course to emerge as not only the single largest party in the state but also to gain a complete majority on its own. The All India Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, which had also badly lost the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in the state â managing to win just one seat while the DMK-led alliance had walked away with all the other 38 â has shown little sign of improvement in these polls.
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Apart from the two main alliances, there were three other major political parties that contested these polls, with two of them fighting as an alliance.
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New Delhi:Â In the first assembly elections held since the demise of former chief minister and AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa, the fight in Tamil Nadu this time is between the ruling alliance of AIADMK-BJP-PMK and the opposition DMK-Congress coalition.
Apart from the two main alliances, there were three other major political parties that contested these polls, with two of them fighting as an alliance.
Assembly elections 2021: Stage set for busiest election day; voting in all poll-bound states on April 6
TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Apr 5, 2021, 18:01 IST
(L-R) Mamata Banerjee, Edappadi K Palaniswami, Pinarayi Vijayan and Sarbananda Sonowal
NEW DELHI: The stage is set for the busiest day of the ongoing election season with all the five states/UT West Bengal, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry going to polls on April 6.
The polling will be held in a single-phase in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry while Assam will witness its third and final round of voting on Tuesday. In Bengal, this will be the third round in the eight-phase elections ending April 29.
Tamil Nadu Assembly Election: Chief Minister Edapaddi K Palaniswami is bidding for re-election (File)
Chennai: Tamil Nadu politics has been dominated by the DMK and AIADMK, with the two Dravidian giants traditionally swapping terms to keep national parties from power. However, this election could buck that trend, with new faces challenging the older ones.
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Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, or EPS, will contest from Salem s Edappadi district, where he faces a youngster - T Sampath Kumar of the DMK. A four-time MLA from here, he is unlikely to be shocked. The constituency has a large Vanniyar population and in February, he provided them with 10.5 per cent quota (within the existing 20 per cent) for admission to educational institutions and posts in government services. Plus, the district has already seen the advantages of being the Chief Minister s Assembly seat.