Tamil Nadu Election Date 2026: Voting for all 234 assembly seats of Tamil Nadu will be held in a single phase on 23 April. The votes will be counted on 4 May, the Election Commission of India announced on Sunday, 15 March.
The term of the incumbent Tamil Nadu assembly will end on 10 May. So a new government has to be sworn in before this date.
In the 2021 Tamil Nadu assembly polls held in the middle of COVID-19 pandemic, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), led by MK Stalin, swept to power after a decade in opposition, winning 133 seats on its own. DMK, along with Congress and other alliance partners, won 159 out of 234 seats.
This election actor Vijay’s newly-launched Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) is expected to challenge the DMK, the AIADMK, and the BJP as an independent force.
Key details about Tamil Nadu Elections 2026
-Date of issue of gazette notification – 30 March
-Last date for making nominations – 6 April
-Date for the scrutiny of nominations – 7 April
-Last date for the withdrawal of candidatures – 9 April
-Tamil Nadu has 234 seats. This includes 188 general, 44 SC and 2 ST seats.
-All assembly seats vote in a single phase on 23 April. Results will be announced on 4 May.
-Tamil Nadu has 5.67 Crore voters. Of these, 2.7 Crore are men and 2.8 Crore are women. There are 7,617 third gender voters in Tamil Nadu.
-Tamil Nadu has 75,032 polling stations. This includes 30,967 urban voters and -44, 065 rural votes.
-Tamil Nadu has 265 model polling stations.
-All 75,032 polling stations of Tamil Nadu will have a webcasting facility.
