TVKTVK booth-level extremes
Of the 234 seats in the Tamil Nadu 2026 Assembly, TVK contested 230 as a first-cycle solo outfit, outside both the SPA and NTDA blocs.
- Booths analysed
- 60,531
- Constituencies
- 230
- Minimum valid votes in a booth
- 200
Booth share spectrum
60,531 contested boothsHow every booth this party contested distributes by share — from wipeout (red) to fortress (green). Most booths sit in the strong band (30–50%) — 57% of contested booths.
Fortressesbooths above 80% share
1TVK crossed 80% share in only 1 polling station — Booth 131 in Tirupathur. For a party that swept the state, that flatness is itself the finding: the win came from broad reach, not concentrated strongholds.
Wipeoutsbooths below 1% share
2TVK dropped below 1% share in just 2 booths — a near-total absence of total-collapse zones, consistent with a first-cycle entrant that built share roughly uniformly.
Hot pocketsbooth share far above AC average
11Only 11 booths show TVK’s share jumping 35+ points above its AC average. The party’s vote profile is unusually uniform; the few hot pockets that exist are scattered and not clustered into a recognisable belt.
Knife-edgesbooths decided by 2 votes or fewer
795TVK won 404 polling stations by 2 votes or fewer — the highest knife-edge volume of any party in TN 2026. The thinness of these margins is what powered both the headline sweep and the geographic blank spots.
Wins · 404
Losses · 391
TVK is part of TVK — Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (independent)
Contested TN 2026 alone; explicitly outside both NDA and UPA / INDIA-bloc structures. Members: TVK.
Methodology & Sources
Source data: ECI Form 20 (statutory booth-level result statements) for all 234 Tamil Nadu Assembly Constituencies, 2026. Per-AC files committed at data/ac-drilldown/.
Booth-size threshold: only polling stations with at least 200 valid votes are included in any list. This excludes micro-booths (typically auxiliary stations with <100 voters) where a 100% share is statistically trivial.
Extremes-only framing: averages, by-district rollups, and median statistics are deliberately omitted. Each list is gated by a hard threshold — fortresses (≥80% share), wipeouts (<1% share), hot/cold pockets (booth share ±35 percentage points from AC average), knife-edges (margin ≤2 votes).
Alliance composition: TN 2026 alliances are hand-curated in data/ac-insights/context/alliances.json. SPA (DMK + INC + VCK + CPI + CPI(M) + IUML + MDMK + DMDK) reflects the INC-led UPA / INDIA bloc at state level. NTDA (AIADMK + PMK + BJP + AMMK) reflects the BJP-led NDA. TVK and NTK contested alone, outside both national blocs.
Demographic tags: only two are used — minority_muslim_area and minority_christian_area — applied to a small hand-curated list of widely-known localities (10 Muslim-area locality keywords; 4 ACs in the Kanyakumari Christian belt). Tags describe locality context, not voter intent. Caste demographics, population numbers, and Census citations are deliberately not used; readers can infer further context from booth names, AC names, and district names. SC-reserved seats are already labelled in the AC name itself.
Numbers from Form 20, narration from this site’s editorial layer. Every number in this page traces back to a row in the per-AC drilldown JSON.
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