Vijay’s TVK emerges as single largest party in Tamil Nadu elections

• Actor-turned-politician Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) made a stunning debut in Tamil Nadu and emerged as the largest single party in the election results on May 4.

• TVK won 108 seats, while Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) got 59 and 47, respectively.

• TVK needs 118 MLAs in the 234-member House to form the government. 

• Vijay clinched victory in Tiruchirapalli East with 91,381 votes, winning by a margin of 27,416 votes. He won in Perambur too, with a bigger margin of 53,715 votes

• CM Stalin was defeated by a margin of 8,795 votes in his Kolathur constituency by V.S. Babu, who was formerly with the DMK and an ex-MLA. Stalin had last tasted defeat in 1991.

• More than 10 ministers including Geetha Jeevan and Ma Subramanian were defeated. 

• Senior DMK leader and minister K.R. Periakaruppan lost the Tiruppattur Assembly seat by one vote. Seenivasa Sethupathy R of the TVK secured victory with 83,375 votes, while Periakaruppan finished with 83,374 votes.

• The TVK was launched in February 2024.

• The political landscape of the state has been altered by a third force for the first time.

• This was the first time since 1967, when the first non-Congress government (DMK) came to power in the state, that a party other than the two Dravidian heavyweights emerged victorious in the hustings.

• Tamil Nadu Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar has accepted the resignation of CM Stalin and his council of ministers.