2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election

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This episode discusses the 2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election and its implications.

pWotD Episode 3278: 2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election Welcome to popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today. With 257,803 views on Thursday, 23 April 2026 our article of the day is 2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election. Tamil Nadu legislative assembly election was held on 6 April 2021 to elect the representatives of the 16th Tamil Nadu assembly. Elections were held for all the 234 constituencies in the assembly. The Election Commission of India announced the schedule for the elections on 26 February 2021. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) won the election, ending the decade-long reign of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), and M. K. Stalin was sworn in as the 12th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. The poll was Tamil Nadu's first assembly election after the demise of the two most prominent chief ministers in the state's modern history, J. Jayalalithaa of the AIADMK, and M. Karunanidhi of the DMK, who died in 2016 and 2018, respectively. With the AIADMK winning the 2016 election, Jayalalithaa had become the chief minister and served for almost six months…

Topics covered

• Tamil Nadu elections
• politics
• Indian political history
• Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
• All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
• M. K. Stalin

Keywords

• Tamil Nadu
• election
• 2021
• DMK
• AIADMK
• M. K. Stalin
• politics
• assembly

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

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