DMK-Led Alliance Set for Comfortable Victory: SURVEY

A ground survey by an independent research group, Lok Poll, projects a comfortable victory for the DMK-led alliance in the upcoming 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections.

The survey, released on Wednesday, claimed to have utilised stratified random sampling across a sample size of 1,17,000 respondents (approximately 500 per constituency). It predicts the DMK-led alliance will secure between 181–189 seats with a dominant 40.1 per cent vote share. The ADMK-led alliance is projected to bag 38–42 seats with a 29 per cent vote share, while actor Vijay’s TVK is expected to make its debut with 8–10 seats and a significant 23.9 per cent vote share.