TN Election in Numbers.
A numerical atlas of Tamil Nadu, after the Special Intensive Revision.
Electors on Tamil Nadu's final roll, published 23 February 2026 by the Chief Electoral Officer, Archana Patnaik. 74,07,207 names have been struck from the rolls during the Special Intensive Revision — the largest single correction in the state's electoral history.
Tamil Nadu's women now outnumber its men by 12.22 lakh — a fact the old rolls had partially obscured. Young voters aged eighteen and nineteen number 12.51 lakh; among them, 7.40 lakh were newly enrolled during this revision alone.
The final roll represents an 11.5 per cent net reduction from the pre-SIR figure of 6.41 crore. Chennai lost 14.25 lakh names — the sharpest decline of any district.
From who voted to who won.
The funnel from electors to MLAs in three steps. 5,67,07,380 registered voters in the final roll → 4,93,24,121 ballots cast (87.0% turnout) → 234 winners. The middle step — how those 4.93 crore votes split, and why TVK's 34.9% vote share converted to 46.2% of seats — is what first-past-the-post does.
Where TVK's 35% came fromDMK + AIADMK held 71% of the vote in 2021. In 2026, between them they hold 45%. The 26-point gap is roughly TVK's entire debut share.
DMK fell from 37.7% to 24.2% (13.5pp loss). AIADMK fell from 33.3% to 21.2% (12.1pp loss). Vijay's party — non-existent in 2021 — picked up 34.9% of the vote in its first contest. The arithmetic is almost exact.
Where one vote bought how many seats.
Δ = seat share − vote share, in percentage points. Positive = the bloc was rewarded by FPTP (won more seat % than vote %); negative = penalised. TVK's +11pp is the largest premium — typical for the plurality winner in a first-past-the-post system. Smaller blocs and parties get squeezed.
The shrinking third forceNTK polled 6.46% in 2021, 4.00% in 2026 — a 2.5-point drop — and still won zero seats both times.
In 2021 NTK was the only third force in TN — Seeman's all-Tamil pitch with no alliance — and its 6.5% share was a ceiling. By 2026, Vijay's TVK had claimed the third-front lane; NTK lost roughly a third of its share to it (19.73 lakh this time, vs ~30 lakh in 2021). The party fielded candidates in all 234 ACs again, 117 of them women, but without an alliance, four percent spread thinly is still zero seats.
The conversion table.
Source: ECI per-AC ballots aggregated for 2026; analysis.json winner+runner-up aggregation for 2021, with NTK's 2021 share (6.46%) sourced from the ECI Statistical Report on the 2021 TN assembly election since NTK rarely placed top-2 and isn't captured in the local file. Parties without a 2021 number (Independents, smaller fringe outfits) show “—” rather than a misleadingly low value. Bloc tags reflect 2026 alliance (DMDK joined SPA; AMMK contested NDA on a fused symbol).
How close was close?
234 races, settled. The median seat changed hands by 11,417 votes. The tightest was decided by 1. The biggest blowout — EDAPPADI K in EDAPPADI — by 98,110.
The closest seat in 2026 — possibly everTIRUPPATTUR (AC 185) was decided by 1 vote.
SEENIVASA SETHUPATHY. R (Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam) over PERIAKARUPPAN. KR (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam). The lead in this AC flipped overnight; ECI declared the result at the very end of counting day.
Decided on the margins.
Walkovers.
Where the seats sit.
Source: ECI live trends, S22 statewise tables, captured at counting day close. Margin = leading − trailing in the official Form-20 reconciliation.
Where the “none of the above” vote outvoted the verdict.
In 11 of 234 constituencies, more voters pressed the NOTA button than the entire winning margin between first and second place. A protest vote that, in another counting day, would have been the swing.
Who actually won.
Cross-referencing the 234 winners against MyNeta's candidate-affidavit database: 232 matches, 2 winners with no affidavit on file. The aggregate profile of the 16th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly:
The blocs picked very different rosters. SPA's remaining 73 MLAs include the senior DMK ministerial bench — wealthier and more litigated than average. TVK's 108 first-time MLAs are the cleanest profile of the three.
Highest qualification — winners only.
Source: ECI affidavits surfaced via MyNeta. Categories are MyNeta's own taxonomy.
How many women won.
1,380 women candidates filed nominations across the state (18.2% of all nominees, per ECI Form-7A). Of the 442 women who made it to the final ballot, here’s how many of the 234 winners are women — cross-referenced against MyNeta’s curated women-candidate list.
By comparison, the 15th Assembly (2021) had 12 women MLAs — 5.1%. That count nearly doubles in 2026, but still well short of the 18% women filing.
One of the 442 women on the ballot is also Tamil Nadu’s only third-gender candidate fielded by a political party — Roshini S, NTK’s nominee from Villivakkam. Across all 7,599 nominations filed statewide, only 3 were third-gender; Roshini is the only one to survive scrutiny + withdrawal and reach the EVM under a party banner. Reporting: Deccan Herald.
By AC.
Methodology: MyNeta's per-candidate gender field was unreliable for this election (23 ACs had every candidate flagged female; ~210 had none). Instead, we cross-referenced each AC's winner against MyNeta's separately-curated women-candidate listing of 442 contestants. For each AC, the highest-vote candidate's MyNeta id is looked up, and the winner is counted as a woman if that id appears in the women list. This replaced an earlier name-heuristic that produced both false positives (men with feminine first names) and false negatives.
The Canvas of Contests.
Hover any district-dot on the map for a glance. Click to fix its detail here — the demographic portrait, gender split, and constituency count.
The largest circle — Thiruvallur — holds 31.57 lakh electors across eight constituencies. The smallest, Ariyalur, holds 5.23 lakh across two.
Who Showed Up, Who Didn't.
Provisional figures from ECINET at 21:18 IST on 23-04-2026. Final ECI turnout typically revises upward by one to two points as postal ballots and late returns are folded in. 2011 / 2016 / 2021 numbers are ECI final.
The state averaged 85.1%, a +12.29 pp jump over 2021. Toggle the map to see which districts moved, and by how much. Hover or click a polygon to pin its detail here.
The shape of the surge.
In Thiyagarayanagar, 1,08,562 people stayed home in 2021. The winner came in by 137 votes.
Ratio = 2021 non-voters ÷ winner's margin. The 2026 counterpart populates on counting day.
Chennai, the city that returned.
Chennai district polled 83.58% — a +24.29 pp leap from the 59.29% it recorded in 2021. No district in Tamil Nadu moved more. The Nilgiris (+21.52), Kancheepuram (+18.00), and Coimbatore (+16.70) followed. The 2026 surge was carried, disproportionately, by the places that had been opting out for a decade.
The shadow of Karur.
Karur AC polled the highest VTR in the state at 93.39%. It also did so in 2021, at 83.57%. The district's gap above its Kongu-belt peers narrowed between cycles (+6.8 pp to +4.1 pp), not widened. The September 2025 stampede that killed forty-one — including ten children — at a TVK rally here does not surface in the turnout data. Whether it surfaces in TVK's vote-share is a question for 5 May.
The Kongu-to-Cape canyon.
Karur district led the state at 92.65%. Kanniyakumari trailed every other district at 75.60%. Seventeen points separate the most and least enthusiastic voters of Tamil Nadu — a regional chasm wider than the entire 2021-to-2026 jump.
Palayamkottai, the 69-percent island.
Only one constituency in the state fell below seventy percent: Palayamkottai (AC 226) at 68.97%. Every other AC crossed the state's own 2021 average. One seat — one pocket of Tirunelveli — stood apart from the tide.
Women make up 51% of the roll. The turnout moved without them.
Across 234 constituencies, the correlation between the female share of the electorate and turnout is r = −0.03. A statistical zero. Whatever lifted Tamil Nadu above 85% lifted men and women in equal measure — not a women-driven wave, not a men-driven wave, but a geographic one.
A dedicated page for the longer reading: the seat arc, side-by-side with the 2026 placeholder that fills in on counting day, and the full non-voter table for all 234 constituencies.
The map, drawn by how many showed up.
The district map above averages; this one does not. Each hex is a single assembly constituency. Every one of the 234 turned out harder than in 2021 — the smallest jump was +3.63 pp (Pattukkottai), the largest +30.06 pp (Villivakkam).
Hover any cell — one hex per constituency. The state averaged 85.1% on 23 April, +12.29 pp above 2021 — but the AC-level spread is wide: Palayamkottai at 68.97% to Karur at 93.39%.
Click the toggle above to switch from absolute turnout to the change since 2021. Every single AC went up — the question is by how much.
A turnout headline, decomposed.
The Election Commission's headline is 84.98% — Tamil Nadu's highest assembly turnout in living memory, a +12.15 pp jump from 2021. But the roll the percentage is measured against is not the roll Tamil Nadu voted on in 2021. The Special Intensive Revision struck 97.38 lakh names from it and added 23.31 lakh new ones. Once the denominator is held constant, the surge looks different.
The percentage rose by twelve points. The number of voters rose by one in twenty-five.
- Anna NagarChennai · AC 21−10,5951,65,095 → 1,54,500 ballots · 57.3% → 85.2%
- Dr.Radhakrishnan NagarChennai · AC 11−10,4041,87,027 → 1,76,623 ballots · 71.0% → 90.2%
- Madurai SouthMadurai · AC 192−8,8391,47,833 → 1,38,994 ballots · 63.8% → 78.3%
- ThiyagarayanagarChennai · AC 24−8,7681,38,114 → 1,29,346 ballots · 56.0% → 83.5%
- Thousand LightsChennai · AC 20−8,3351,35,940 → 1,27,605 ballots · 56.3% → 82.9%
- MylaporeChennai · AC 25−8,1221,53,430 → 1,45,308 ballots · 56.6% → 74.6%
- VillivakkamChennai · AC 14−6,7271,44,092 → 1,37,365 ballots · 55.9% → 86.0%
- HarbourChennai · AC 18−4,9191,01,650 → 96,731 ballots · 57.6% → 82.8%
- OddanchatramDindigul · AC 128−4,7392,01,756 → 1,97,017 ballots · 83.1% → 90.5%
- EgmoreChennai · AC 16−4,3681,19,271 → 1,14,903 ballots · 61.1% → 85.2%
- SaidapetChennai · AC 23−4,1041,60,327 → 1,56,223 ballots · 57.4% → 77.8%
- Madurai CentralMadurai · AC 193−4,0321,49,430 → 1,45,398 ballots · 61.0% → 73.9%
- MannargudiThiruvarur · AC 167−3,1121,93,229 → 1,90,117 ballots · 74.3% → 82.0%
- ThanjavurThanjavur · AC 174−2,1071,94,858 → 1,92,751 ballots · 65.7% → 77.4%
- Coimbatore (South)Coimbatore · AC 120−1,7901,54,765 → 1,52,975 ballots · 60.7% → 82.0%
- KangayamTiruppur · AC 102−1,5001,99,818 → 1,98,318 ballots · 77.2% → 91.5%
- VirugampakkamChennai · AC 22−1,3631,69,087 → 1,67,724 ballots · 57.6% → 85.3%
- PalaniDindigul · AC 127−1,2542,05,383 → 2,04,129 ballots · 73.3% → 86.0%
In each of these 18 constituencies — 10 of them in Chennai — ballots cast in 2026 fell by at least half a percent against 2021, even as the turnout percentage rose. The roll shrank faster than the electorate showed up.
| AC | Name | District | Votes 2021 | Votes 2026 | Δ ballots | VTR 2021 → 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Anna Nagar | Chennai | 1,65,095 | 1,54,500 | −10,595 | 57.3% → 85.2% |
| 11 | Dr.Radhakrishnan Nagar | Chennai | 1,87,027 | 1,76,623 | −10,404 | 71.0% → 90.2% |
| 192 | Madurai South | Madurai | 1,47,833 | 1,38,994 | −8,839 | 63.8% → 78.3% |
| 24 | Thiyagarayanagar | Chennai | 1,38,114 | 1,29,346 | −8,768 | 56.0% → 83.5% |
| 20 | Thousand Lights | Chennai | 1,35,940 | 1,27,605 | −8,335 | 56.3% → 82.9% |
| 25 | Mylapore | Chennai | 1,53,430 | 1,45,308 | −8,122 | 56.6% → 74.6% |
| 14 | Villivakkam | Chennai | 1,44,092 | 1,37,365 | −6,727 | 55.9% → 86.0% |
| 18 | Harbour | Chennai | 1,01,650 | 96,731 | −4,919 | 57.6% → 82.8% |
| 128 | Oddanchatram | Dindigul | 2,01,756 | 1,97,017 | −4,739 | 83.1% → 90.5% |
| 16 | Egmore | Chennai | 1,19,271 | 1,14,903 | −4,368 | 61.1% → 85.2% |
| 23 | Saidapet | Chennai | 1,60,327 | 1,56,223 | −4,104 | 57.4% → 77.8% |
| 193 | Madurai Central | Madurai | 1,49,430 | 1,45,398 | −4,032 | 61.0% → 73.9% |
| 167 | Mannargudi | Thiruvarur | 1,93,229 | 1,90,117 | −3,112 | 74.3% → 82.0% |
| 174 | Thanjavur | Thanjavur | 1,94,858 | 1,92,751 | −2,107 | 65.7% → 77.4% |
| 120 | Coimbatore (South) | Coimbatore | 1,54,765 | 1,52,975 | −1,790 | 60.7% → 82.0% |
| 102 | Kangayam | Tiruppur | 1,99,818 | 1,98,318 | −1,500 | 77.2% → 91.5% |
| 22 | Virugampakkam | Chennai | 1,69,087 | 1,67,724 | −1,363 | 57.6% → 85.3% |
| 127 | Palani | Dindigul | 2,05,383 | 2,04,129 | −1,254 | 73.3% → 86.0% |
In each of these 18 constituencies — 10 of them in Chennai — ballots cast in 2026 fell by at least half a percent against 2021, even as the turnout percentage rose. The roll shrank faster than the electorate showed up.
Not all new electors voted; some additions were age-18 enrolments that would have happened in any cycle. The point is directional: the numerator's growth tracks the roll's growth, not a behavioural shift.
Headline VTR is the ECI provisional figure (21:18 IST, 23 April 2026) and may revise upward by 1–2 points in the final release. Comparable VTR re-bases 2026's votes against the pre-SIR roll size — it makes the two years arithmetically comparable; it does not claim 2026 turnout was “really” lower. The 97.38 lakh deletions removed dead, migrated, and duplicate names that should not have counted in the 2021 denominator either, which is why 2021's 72.82% was itself an understatement. Additions are computed as totalDeletions − netReduction, the net inflow during the revision; not all of them are first-time eighteen-year-olds.
The Great Correction.
In four months, Booth Level Officers flagged nearly 97 lakh names for deletion before claims, objections, and fresh enrolments settled the final roll.
The Pyramid of Power.
The sex ratio climbs with age: 914 women per 1,000 men in the 18–19 band, but 1,180 per 1,000 in the 80+. Women live longer than men, and the electoral roll records the demographic consequence. The middle bands (30–59) carry nearly six in every ten voters; the median elector is in their mid-forties.
Total differs from final-roll figure by 6.4 L — snapshot includes nomination-period additions.
Size & Scale.
Shozhinganallur
Shozhinganallur remains the state's and country's demographic behemoth, housing more electors than many small districts.
Harbour
Harbour, in Central Chennai, represents the opposite pole — a tightly packed urban core with less than a quarter of the largest seat's count.
Bargur
Sornavur (Rank 118) approximates the 'typical' Tamil Nadu constituency in raw size.
The League of Districts.
District | Character | Electorate ▼ | Women | Men | ACs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thiruvallur | Industrial | 31,57,413 | 16,12,090 | 15,44,710 | 8 |
| Chennai | Metropolitan | 28,30,936 | 14,64,344 | 13,65,763 | 18 |
| Salem | Steel & Sago | 27,55,830 | 13,84,548 | 13,70,962 | 11 |
| Coimbatore | Manufacturing | 26,96,813 | 13,95,396 | 13,00,889 | 10 |
| Madurai | Temple City | 24,66,954 | 12,58,051 | 12,08,651 | 10 |
| Chengalpattu | IT Corridor | 22,60,036 | 11,55,144 | 11,04,511 | 8 |
| Tiruchirappalli | Administrative | 21,26,303 | 10,94,642 | 10,31,354 | 9 |
| Cuddalore | Coastal Industry | 20,15,796 | 10,23,976 | 9,91,527 | 9 |
| Tiruppur | Knitwear | 19,55,283 | 10,10,853 | 9,44,178 | 8 |
| Thanjavur | Rice Bowl | 19,51,445 | 10,04,012 | 9,47,278 | 8 |
| Tiruvannamalai | Agrarian | 19,19,159 | 9,75,277 | 9,43,727 | 8 |
| Erode | Turmeric Trade | 17,40,222 | 9,01,574 | 8,38,466 | 8 |
| Dindigul | Leather & Locks | 16,72,075 | 8,58,964 | 8,12,937 | 7 |
| Villupuram | Agrarian | 15,86,653 | 8,03,154 | 7,83,288 | 6 |
| Krishnagiri | Automotive | 15,54,040 | 7,77,458 | 7,76,318 | 6 |
| Kanniyakumari | Coastal/Tourism | 15,10,550 | 7,59,390 | 7,51,016 | 6 |
| Virudhunagar | Matchworks | 14,97,417 | 7,68,632 | 7,28,539 | 7 |
| Thoothukudi | Port & Salt | 13,76,624 | 7,04,689 | 6,71,742 | 6 |
| Namakkal | Poultry & Transport | 13,10,951 | 6,75,452 | 6,35,299 | 6 |
| Pudukkottai | Agrarian | 12,98,907 | 6,57,562 | 6,41,276 | 6 |
| Tenkasi | Foothills | 12,64,411 | 6,46,180 | 6,18,063 | 4 |
| Tirunelveli | Educational | 12,53,264 | 6,41,518 | 6,11,601 | 6 |
| Dharmapuri | Male-majority | 12,40,108 | 6,15,311 | 6,24,647 | 5 |
| Kancheepuram | Silk Weaving | 11,92,194 | 6,13,917 | 5,78,080 | 3 |
| Vellore | Health/Education | 11,33,587 | 5,83,769 | 5,49,654 | 5 |
| Ramanathapuram | Fishing | 11,23,029 | 5,66,653 | 5,56,321 | 4 |
| Sivaganga | Chettinad Banking | 11,10,599 | 5,66,526 | 5,44,035 | 4 |
| Kallakurichi | Agrarian | 11,09,911 | 5,57,600 | 5,52,101 | 5 |
| Theni | Spice Plantation | 10,33,373 | 5,30,887 | 5,02,311 | 4 |
| Tiruvarur | Delta | 9,79,652 | 4,98,919 | 4,80,679 | 4 |
| Ranipet | Leather | 9,44,701 | 4,83,377 | 4,61,213 | 4 |
| Tirupattur | Hill Transit | 9,11,599 | 4,61,996 | 4,49,464 | 4 |
| Karur | Textile Export | 8,45,164 | 4,39,054 | 4,06,027 | 4 |
| Mayiladuthurai | Delta | 7,29,216 | 3,68,676 | 3,60,493 | 3 |
| Perambalur | Cement | 5,55,131 | 2,83,466 | 2,71,634 | 2 |
| Nilgiris | Hill Tea | 5,47,133 | 2,85,791 | 2,61,317 | 3 |
| Nagapattinam | Delta Coast | 5,27,947 | 2,68,298 | 2,59,620 | 3 |
| Ariyalur | Cement | 5,22,954 | 2,63,692 | 2,59,234 | 2 |
The Nomination Funnel.
Of 7,599 nomination forms filed across Tamil Nadu's 234 constituencies, only 4,023 candidates made it to the EVM. The Returning Officers' scrutiny rejected 2,460 (32.4%); another 529 accepted candidates withdrew before the deadline (11.5% of accepted).
The more Independents on a ballot,
the fewer nominations get thrown out.
Rejection is overwhelmingly procedural — bond, affidavit, oath. Party candidates carry decoy slates and proxies that get scrubbed at scrutiny; lone Independents tend to file once, file straight, and clear the desk.
Read across: as the IND share of the ballot rises (orange bars lengthen), the rejection rate falls — from 36.5% in party-heavy seats to 27.5% in IND-flooded ones.
Ambasamudram threw out 32 of 38 nominations — leaving only five contestants on its EVM. The ballot's smallest seat by candidate count, by way of the cutting-room floor.
High late-stage withdrawal usually signals a tactical alliance settlement after the scrutiny cut-off — names cleared by the RO but pulled before the bell.
Per-AC nomination ledger sourced from the Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer's official nomination spreadsheet (TNLA2026).
All 234 Constituencies.
Gummidipoondi
Ponneri
Tiruttani
Thiruvallur
Poonamallee
Avadi
Maduravoyal
Ambattur
Madavaram
Thiruvottiyur
Dr.Radhakrishnan Nagar
Perambur
Kolathur
Villivakkam
Thiru-Vi-Ka-Nagar
Egmore
Royapuram
Harbour
Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni
Thousand Lights
Anna Nagar
Virugampakkam
Saidapet
Thiyagarayanagar
Mylapore
Velachery
Shozhinganallur
Alandur
Sriperumbudur
Pallavaram
Tambaram
Chengalpattu
Thiruporur
Cheyyur
Madurantakam
Uthiramerur
Kancheepuram
Arakkonam
Sholinghur
Katpadi
Ranipet
Arcot
Vellore
Anaikattu
Kilvaithinankuppam
Gudiyattam
Vaniyambadi
Ambur
Jolarpet
Tirupattur
(Showing first 50 results. Use the filter to find specific constituencies.)
Complete 2026 candidate data sourced from the ECI constituency-wise filing aggregate — 4,023 candidates across all 234 constituencies. 105 parties including 2,208 independents. Per-candidate EVM symbol preserved.
Contest Density, or: Why Karur?
The average Tamil Nadu constituency has 17 candidates. Eleven have more than 25, and one — AC 135 Karur — has seventy-nine. That number is not a function of population. It is a function of political heat.
79 candidates. 71 of them Independent.
Karur is Senthil Balaji's former seat — the DMK strongman has been shifted to Coimbatore South, leaving a vacuum. Former AIADMK minister Dr. C. Vijayabaskar is the opposition pick. The TVK nominee is V.P. Mathialagan.
But the bulk of the ballot is a flood of Independents. This is an act of political speech: some sympathy, some protest, some opportunistic. The EVM catalogues them all.
Least-contested: AC 122 Kinathukadavu and AC 225 Ambasamudram at five candidates each.
The candidate listed first on an EVM enjoys a measurable behavioral advantage. Of 234 №1 slots, 74 go to NTK, a quiet consequence of Tamil alphabetical ordering.
The Decoy Candidates.
A documented tactic: file a candidate with the same first name as a frontrunner, assign them a different symbol, and hope that votes drop into the wrong column. The 2026 Tamil Nadu ballot has at least two obvious cases targeting TVK president Vijay.
The real Vijay (TVK) is party president. Two other namesake candidates share the ballot.
A namesake candidate with the same "All India Jananayaka Makkal Kazhagam" party targets Vijay's second seat.
Women on the Ballot.
1,380 of the 7,599 nomination forms (18.2%) were filed by women, per the Tamil Nadu CEO. The two-stage filter — Returning-Officer scrutiny then voluntary withdrawal — narrows that figure further: MyNeta’s curated women-candidate listing identifies 435 of 3,931 contestants (11.1%) as women. The shares below are computed from that listing.
From MyNeta’s curated 442-name women-candidate listing, joined to the alliance buckets used elsewhere on this page. NTK delivered on its announced 117-women pledge in full — half its slate, against ~11% for every other alliance.
Beyond the Big Four.
Outside the headline four-way contest, 880 candidates across ~95 smaller parties are vying for attention — many fielding significant slates.
Tamizhaga Vaazhvurimai Katchi
Dalit-focused party. Withdrew from SPA in March 2026 to contest solo; now the largest non-alliance presence on the ballot.
Bahujan Samaj Party
The national Dalit party's largest-ever Tamil Nadu run. Elephant symbol across half the state.
All India Puratchi Thalaivar Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam
Founded by Sasikala in 2025 after the AIADMK merger, allied with the Ramadoss-led PMK(R) faction. Coconut Farm symbol.
Puthiya Tamilagam
Long-standing Devar/Pallar-focused party. Released 70 candidates across two lists in late March.
The Symbol Menagerie.
Tamil Nadu's 2026 ballot draws on 181 distinct free symbols. A selection of the most peculiar — marks for candidates to be identified without reading.
The Crorepati Ballot.
Of 3,931 candidates whose affidavits have been analysed, 969 declared assets of ₹1 crore or more (24.7%). The median across the ballot is skewed by Independents; the alliance shape is very different.
Assets as declared in ECI-filed affidavits (self-sworn). Aggregated by MyNeta / ADR.
The Criminal Column.
712 of 3,931 analysed candidates (18.1%) declared at least one pending criminal case in their ECI affidavit. The declaration is mandatory; the case itself may be long-pending, politically motivated or minor — and never implies conviction.
A "declared case" is a pending charge the candidate was legally required to disclose in their nomination affidavit — not a conviction. Many are decades-old protest FIRs; some are serious. This tally records what candidates themselves have declared. Full case details, IPC sections, and severity are available on each candidate's MyNeta affidavit page.
The Age of the Ballot.
Across 3,931 candidates, the median age is 45. The youngest is Shahul Hameed (25, IND, AC 222 Tenkasi); the oldest is Duraimurugan (87, DMK, AC 40 Katpadi).
Age as declared in the candidate's ECI affidavit. Aggregated by MyNeta / ADR.
The Educational Ballot.
Across 3,931 analysed affidavits, 45.7% of candidates declared a graduate degree or higher. The ballot's tail runs from Doctorates to the self-declared illiterate — both end of the scale matter at the EVM.
Education as self-declared on the candidate's ECI affidavit. Aggregated by MyNeta / ADR.