Party · TN Verdict 2026

INCIndian National Congress

State-level report card across all 28 contests INC fielded in the Tamil Nadu 2026 Assembly Election — seats, margins, districts, and head-to-head against every rival party.

Alliance arithmetic, not independent recovery — 5 wins from 28 contested at 17.9% strike rate, a footprint sized entirely by the seat-sharing deal.
Healthy share, thin conversion — 28% vote share in seats fought yet only 5 first-place finishes, with 12 of 28 contests ending #3.
No deposits forfeited — the party at least cleared the credibility floor everywhere it ran.

Drafted 2026-05-13 · refreshed when the underlying metrics change.

State verdict

Held a foothold — 5 of 28 contested, 3.37% of statewide vote, mostly in pockets where the party concentrates resources.

Contested

of 234 ACs

Won

17.9% strike rate

Lost

82.1% of contests

Vote share — statewide

3.37%

16,61,312 votes total

Vote share — in seats fought

28.3%

concentration in their 28 seats

Stayed competitive

57%

finished #1 or #2 in 16 of 28

Avg winning margin

+4.3%

lead over runner-up, averaged across wins

Avg losing margin

-10.5%

gap to winner, averaged across losses

Deposits forfeited

none — all candidates cleared 1/6 share

Booth-by-booth analysis

See how INC did at every one of 7,540 booths

Booth share spectrum · fortresses · wipeouts · knife-edge wins · hot pockets · alliance lens.

Margin distribution

margin as % of valid votes in AC · 28 contests

>20%

Win

10–20%

Win

5–10%

Win

<5%

Win

<5%

Loss

5–10%

Loss

10–20%

Loss

>20%

Loss

Win margin (party finished #1)Loss margin (distance to winner)

State pulse

extremes across every contested AC

+11.99% of valid · 70,755 votes (40.5%)

+0.74% of valid · 66,434 votes (37.4%)

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Highest vote AC

AC 29 · SRIPERUMBUDUR

Kancheepuram

93,365votes (28.2%)

rank #2 · -16.38% margin

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Lowest vote AC

AC 216 · SRIVAIKUNTAM

Thoothukudi

41,277votes (23.4%)

rank #3 · -9.94% margin

-1.14% of valid · 67,038 votes (30.4%)

-24.59% of valid · 54,671 votes (24.1%)

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District scorecard

present in 22 of 38 districts

Clean sweeps

won every seat contested

Kanniyakumari (3)

Dominant

≥75% of seats, min 3

Shutouts

contested ≥2, won 0

Krishnagiri (2)Coimbatore (2)Tirunelveli (2)

Strongest districts

District	W / C	Share	Best seat
Kanniyakumari	3 / 3	36.9%	VILAVANCODE
Nagapattinam	1 / 1	36.1%	MAYILADUTHURAI
Pudukkottai	0 / 1	34.6%	ARANTHANGI
The Nilgiris	0 / 1	30.7%	UDHAGAMANDALAM
Ramanathapuram	0 / 1	30.4%	TIRUVADANAI

Weakest districts

District	W / C	Share	Best seat
Tenkasi	0 / 1	21.7%	SANKARANKOVIL
Thoothukudi	0 / 1	23.4%	SRIVAIKUNTAM
Dharmapuri	0 / 1	23.6%	PENNAGARAM
Thiruvallur	0 / 1	24.1%	PONNERI
Sivaganga	0 / 1	24.1%	KARAIKUDI

Head-to-head

who they fought across the state

Most often beaten by

TVKTVK

19×

INC's top finisher-up

AIADMK 3×BJP 1×

Most often beat

TVKTVK

4×

Where INC won, they usually beat…

PMK 1×

Booth-level extremes

7,540 booths analysed →

INC contested 26 of 234 seats in TN 2026 as the national-bloc anchor inside the SPA alliance — the state-level reflection of the INC-led UPA / INDIA bloc. Across 7,540 polling stations with 200+ valid votes, four numbers stand out.

Strongest booth

90.1%

Pathamadai, Ambasamudram (AC 225)

609 of 676 voters chose INC at Booth 282 in Pathamadai — the party’s tightest lock-in anywhere. Tirunelveli district provides the deepest INC pockets, with multiple booths above 85% reflecting an old-Congress floor surviving inside the SPA seat-share.

Tightest win

1 vote

Booth 127, Velachery (AC 26)

INC held this Chennai-metro booth by a single vote with 41.8% share. Velachery is one of the seats INC carried inside the SPA arithmetic; the knife-edge wins concentrate in metro Chennai where local SPA transfer was uneven booth to booth.

Biggest local surge

+61.5%

Booth 31, Srivaikuntam (AC 216)

INC averages 23.5% across Srivaikuntam, but at Booth 31 it took 85.0% — a 62-point local jump, the steepest surge in the INC profile. Hot pockets at this volume (118 booths above the 35-point delta) indicate concentrated old-Congress neighbourhoods inside contested seats.

Alliance conversion

0 wipeouts

Floor held everywhere INC ran

INC dropped below 1% share in zero polling stations — the cleanest floor profile of any major party. The SPA alliance carried INC across all 26 seats with no booth-scale total collapse, evidence that DMK-led transfer worked even where INC’s own depth was thin.

See all INC booth-level extremes (184 records) →

≥200 valid votes per booth · ECI Form 20

Every INC candidate (28)

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28 of 28 contests

AC	Candidate	Votes	Margin ▼	Status	Age	Net worth	Crim
AC 233 VILAVANCODE Kanniyakumari	PRAVEEN T.T rank #1	70,755	+12.0%+20,970	won	47	Rs 66.19 Cr	0
AC 161 MAYILADUTHURAI Nagapattinam	JAMAL MOHAMED YOUNOOS. Y.N rank #1	68,011	+5.8%+10,845	won	62	Rs 3.00 L	0
AC 188 MELUR Madurai	P.VISWANATHAN rank #1	60,080	+1.4%+2,724	won	61	Rs 2.58 Cr	0
AC 231 COLACHAL Kanniyakumari	THARAHAI CUTHBERT rank #1	66,207	+1.4%+2,833	won	51	Rs 4.10 Cr	0
AC 234 KILLIYOOR Kanniyakumari	RAJESH KUMAR. S rank #1	66,434	+0.7%+1,311	won	51	Rs 3.98 Cr	13
AC 210 TIRUVADANAI Ramanathapuram	RM. KARUMANICKAM rank #2	67,038	-1.1%2,513	lost	40	Rs 5.72 Cr	0
AC 108 UDHAGAMANDALAM The Nilgiris	RAMACHANDRAN.B rank #3	45,658	-1.9%2,830	lost	59	Rs 3.47 Cr	0
AC 197 USILAMPATTI Madurai	SARAVANAKUMAR. T rank #3	59,465	-2.8%6,278	lost	48	Rs 76.89 L	0
AC 51 UTHANGARAI Krishnagiri	R KUPPUSAMY rank #3	60,993	-4.5%9,208	lost	74	Rs 3.73 Cr	0
AC 225 AMBASAMUDRAM Tirunelveli	V.P.DURAI rank #2	55,344	-5.4%10,245	lost	43	Rs 18.48 Cr	0
AC 183 ARANTHANGI Pudukkottai	RAMACHANDRAN . T rank #2	63,182	-5.5%10,062	lost	45	Rs 10.07 Cr	0
AC 205 SIVAKASI Virudhunagar	ASHOKAN G rank #2	57,039	-6.0%11,670	lost	—	—	—
AC 227 NANGUNERI Tirunelveli	RUBY.R.MANOHARAN rank #2	58,533	-7.8%16,419	lost	66	Rs 118.86 Cr	0
AC 155 CUDDALORE Cuddalore	A.S.CHANDARASEKARAN rank #2	55,337	-8.2%15,519	lost	58	Rs 8.56 Cr	0
AC 121 SINGANALLUR Coimbatore	V.SRINIDHI rank #2	65,024	-8.7%19,139	lost	37	Rs 4.54 Cr	0
AC 146 THURAIYUR Tiruchirappalli	M.LENIN PRASATH rank #3	49,222	-9.2%17,041	lost	37	Rs 48.55 L	0
AC 216 SRIVAIKUNTAM Thoothukudi	OORVASI AMIRTHARAJ. S rank #3	41,277	-9.9%17,537	lost	—	—	—
AC 39 SHOLINGUR Ranipet	A.M.MUNIRATHINAM rank #3	57,997	-11.3%26,509	lost	70	Rs 44.45 Cr	1
AC 219 SANKARANKOVIL Tenkasi	SANGAI. GANESAN rank #3	42,567	-11.3%22,298	lost	57	Rs 1.87 Cr	1
AC 58 PENNAGARAM Dharmapuri	G. K. M. TAMILKUMARAN rank #3	53,901	-12.0%27,339	lost	48	Rs 15.90 Cr	0
AC 53 KRISHNAGIRI Krishnagiri	CHELLAKUMAR.A rank #3	59,597	-12.9%29,777	lost	66	Rs 9.86 Cr	4
AC 82 ATTUR Salem	ARTHANARI. S.K. rank #3	51,896	-13.9%28,947	lost	49	Rs 1.72 Cr	0
AC 98 ERODE EAST Erode	GOPINATH PALANIYAPPAN rank #2	45,781	-14.8%23,966	lost	—	—	—
AC 117 KAVUNDAMPALAYAM Coimbatore	SURYA PRAKASH K.P rank #3	90,726	-15.3%55,740	lost	29	Rs 25.06 L	0
AC 29 SRIPERUMBUDUR Kancheepuram	K. SELVAPERUNTHAGAI rank #2	93,365	-16.4%54,246	lost	65	Rs 48.32 Cr	0
AC 26 VELACHERY Chennai	AASSAN MAULAANA J.M.H rank #3	45,928	-18.7%34,502	lost	—	—	—
AC 184 KARAIKUDI Sivaganga	MANGUDI. S rank #2	55,284	-20.1%46,074	lost	62	Rs 6.59 Cr	1
AC 2 PONNERI Thiruvallur	DURAI CHANDRASEKAR rank #2	54,671	-24.6%55,768	lost	53	Rs 1.54 Cr	1