Archive · 17 Sep 2026
Maduranthagam Nominations End With 48 Candidates Contesting Assembly By-Poll
Nominations have closed for the Maduranthagam Assembly election.
There are 48 candidates in total.
Five recognised political parties have official candidates.
AIADMK’s Kanitha Sampath and CPI-M’s P. Suganthi submitted their papers on Wednesday.
Candidates from TVK, DMK and Naam Thamizhar had already filed theirs.
Some of the 48 candidates are dummy nominees or independents.
Officials will check the nomination papers on Thursday.
Dummy candidates are expected to withdraw if the official party candidates are accepted.
A total of 48 candidates are contesting the Maduranthagam Assembly constituency election.
Candidates from five recognised parties are among those in the fray.
AIADMK’s Kanitha Sampath and CPI-M’s P. Suganthi filed nominations Wednesday.
TVK, DMK and Naam Thamizhar candidates had filed papers earlier.
Nominations will be scrutinised Thursday, after which dummy candidates are expected to withdraw.
- Who
- Forty-eight candidates, including nominees from AIADMK, CPI-M, TVK, DMK and Naam Thamizhar, are contesting.
- What
- Nominations have ended for the Maduranthagam Assembly constituency election.
- When
- Nominations ended Wednesday; scrutiny is scheduled for Thursday, with the election set for October 6.
- Where
- Maduranthagam Assembly constituency, Tamil Nadu.
- Why
- The election is a by-poll necessitated by Maragadham Kumaravel’s resignation as an MLA after joining TVK.
- Total candidates
- 48
- Recognised parties represented
- Five
- Election date
- October 6
- Nomination deadline
- Wednesday
- Scrutiny date
- Thursday
- AIADMK candidate
- Kanitha Sampath
- CPI-M candidate
- P. Suganthi
- By-poll trigger
- Maragadham Kumaravel resigned her MLA seat after joining TVK