The arithmetic of the ballot, hour by hour.
Counting started this morning. The hemicycle and hex map below are not a static snapshot — every five minutes a new tick joins the timeline. Drag the slider to rewind the day; press play to watch the seats colour in. Below the live section, the 2021 baseline sits unchanged, so the 2026 result reads against the house it replaced.
Counting began the morning of 4 May 2026. Each tick on the timeline below is a snapshot of ECI's live results page; drag the slider to watch the day unfold, or hit play to animate it. Both visuals — the hemicycle and the hex map — re-colour from the same selected moment.
The arc as it stood at this moment.
Each dot is one of the 234 Tamil Nadu constituencies. Solid dots are seats officially declared by the Returning Officer; faded dots are still leading on ECI's live feed. Empty dots are seats where ECI had not yet posted any trend.
The map as it stood at this moment.
Same data, laid out by geography. Equal-area hexes — a Chennai ward and a Nilgiris seat carry the same visual weight. Solid cells = officially declared, faded = leading. Watch how the early-finishing rural ACs harden first.
The house being replaced.
How the house stood at dissolution.
The DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA) carried 159 of 234 seats in 2021. The AIADMK-led NDA held 75. A two-alliance map, because that's what the 2021 result was. Each dot is a constituency.
The map, drawn from the result.
One hex per constituency, arranged to follow Tamil Nadu's outline. Equal-area, so a Chennai ward and a Nilgiris hill seat carry the same visual weight. SPA swept the southern and delta belts; NDA held the western belt around Salem-Dharmapuri. Map tiles adapted from baskicanvas/tamilnadu-assembly-constituency-maps.