Karunanidhi scripts history

DMK leader M. Karunanidhi, whose electoral journey began in Kulithalai in 1957, has won all the 13 elections he has contested.

DMK chief M. Karunanidhi.

DMK leader M. Karunanidhi, whose electoral journey began in Kulithalai in 1957, has won all the 13 elections he has contested.

Only in 1984 did he stay away from the Assembly elections and subsequently went to the Legislative Council.

He polled 1,21,473 votes in his home town Tiruvarur this time, at the age of 93, and defeated his rival with a whopping victory margin of 68,366 votes, the highest in this election. The constituencies he won from over the years are 1957—Kulithalai, 1962 —Thanjavur, 1967 —Saidapet, 1971 —Saidapet, 1977 —Anna Nagar, 1980 —Anna Nagar, 1989 —Harbour, 1991 —Harbour, 1996 —Chepauk, 2001 —Chepauk, 2006 —Chepauk, 2011 —Tiruvarur and 2016 —Tiruvarur.