Vijay made a blockbuster debut on Monday, with its party registering a landslide mandate in the 2026 Tamil Nadu election. Defying all odds, Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) won 108 seats, falling just 10 seats short of the majority mark in the 234-member assembly. (Photo: PTI file)
Tamil Nadu poll results confirm a massive political shift; the contrast between exit poll predictions and the actual mandate has become a major talking point. While most pollsters projected the TVK would get as few as 0–6 seats, Axis My India emerged as the lone outlier that correctly read the “Vijay Wave.” Pradeep Gupta’s Axis My India had projected 98–120 seats for Vijay’s party, a figure that mirrored the historic result.
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Joseph Vijay’s TVK secured 34.92% vote share, setting a record for the highest vote share by any party making its electoral debut since 2000. (Photo: PTI file)
After TVK, Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) recorded over 29% vote share in its poll debut in the 2023 Delhi elections. The AAP won 28 seats in 70-member Delhi assembly. (Photo: PTI file)
YS Jagan Mohan Reddy broke ties with Congress and formed the YSR Congress Party. His party contested its first assembly election in united Andhra Pradesh in 2014. YSRCP received 27.9% vote share and got 70 seats in the 266-member assembly. (Photo: PTI file)
Late Ram Vilas Paswan formed Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) in 2000 and contested the 2005 Bihar assembly polls. The party secured 12.6% vote share and won 29 out of 178 seats. (Photo: PTI file)
K Chandrashekar Rao’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) contested its first election in united Andhra Pradesh in 2004. His party secured 6.7% vote share and won 26 out of 54 seats that it contested in the Telangana region. (Photo: PTI file)
