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