DMK supporters celebrate the party’s win in Chennai on Monday CHENNAI: As the dust settles down in the intensely fought assembly election in Tamil Nadu, data show DMK has won 133 seats and a majority on its own by polling 36.9% of the popular valid votes. This has been the party’s second-lowest vote share in the three assembly polls it had won since 1996. While the lowest has been 26.5% it got in 2006, which gave the party 96 seats and a ‘minority government’ tag, its highest was in 1996 when it got 42.1% — a wave election against the incumbent AIADMK. The other Dravidian major, AIADMK, had polled 40.8% popular votes in 2016 to retain power for a second term after it came to power in 2011 with a vote share of 38.4%. AIADMK’s lowest was in 2001 when it won a majority of its own (132 seats) by securing just 31.4% of the total votes polled.