2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election
type: Event
type: SocietalEvent
type: Thing
type: Q40231
type: Q1656682
affiliation: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
affiliation: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
description: ২০২১ বিধানসভা নির্বাচন @bn
description: తమిళనాడు శాసనసభ ఎన్నికలు-2021 @te
description: Indian state election
description: انتخابات @ar
first leader: M. K. Stalin
second leader: Edappadi K. Palaniswami
start date: 2021-04-06
title: 2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Election
subject: Category:State Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu
subject: Category:2021 State Assembly elections in India
subject: Category:2020s in Tamil Nadu
map2 size: 300
after election: M. K. Stalin
after party: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
alliance: National Democratic Alliance
alliance: Secular Progressive Alliance
before election: Edappadi K. Palaniswami
before party: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
elected members: 16
election date: 2021-04-06
election name: 2021
leader since: 2017
leaders seat: Edappadi Assembly constituency
leaders seat: Kolathur Assembly constituency
majority seats: 118
ongoing: no
outgoing members: 15
percentage: 39.29
percentage: 45.7
popular vote: 17430179
popular vote: 15391055
previous election: 2016
previous year: 2016
seat change: 44
seat change: 70
seats for election: All 234 elected seats in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
swing: 7.59
swing: 6.31
turnout: 73.63
map2 caption: Structure of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly after the election
caption: Results by alliance
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color: ;
country: India
direction: horizontal
footer: The sixteenth legislative assembly election is the first election to the body after the deaths of the two most prominent Chief Ministers and political supremos of modern Tamil Nadu, J. Jayalalithaa and M. Karunanidhi .
image: J Jayalalithaa.jpg
image: M. Karunanidhi .jpg
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label: NDA
label: People's Front
label: SPA
label: Naam Tamilar Katchi
label: MNM+
last election: 136
last election: 89
leader: Edappadi K. Palaniswami
leader: M. K. Stalin
next election: Next Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election
next year: Next
party: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
party: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
radius: 100
seats: 133
seats: 66
style: "text-align:right"
title: List of chief ministers of Tamil Nadu
total width: 265
type: legislative
value: 39.71
value: 6.58
value: 45.38