All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam alliance routed the DMK alliance in all the six constituencies by comfortable margins.
Sirkazhi ushered in an AIADMK victory with its M.Shakthi securing 83, 881 votes against 56,502 votes polled by Duraiarasan of the VCK. The AIADMK candidate was perched comfortably from the first round eventually winning the seat with a thumping margin of 27,379 votes against her VCK rival.
In Nagapattinam constituency, K.A.Jayapal of the AIADMK secured 61,870 votes against the 56,127 votes polled by IUML candidate Mohammad Sheik Dawood with the former winning with a margin of 5,742 votes.
A victory much savoured was that of the Keezhvelur (reserved) - where candidate P.Mahalingam alias Nagai Maali of the CPI(M) beat the DMK candidate and former Minister for Dairy Development U.Mathivaanan with a narrow margin of 724 securing 59,402 votes against 58,678 votes by the DMK. The popularity of the Chief Ministerial candidate in the neighbouring Tiruvarur constituency was tipped to have a potential spill off on Keezhvelur constituency.
The AIADMK candidate in Poompuhar, S.Pounraj, won with a margin of 11,373 votes, securing 85,839 votes over the PMK's Agoram, who secured 74,466 votes.
The results for Vedaranyam were tortuous with technical glitches causing inordinate delay in counting process stalling initial predictions for the entire forenoon. Eventually, N.V.Kamaraj of the AIADMK secured 53,799 votes to beat the sitting DMK MLA S.K.Vedarathinam, who secured 42,871 votes.
In the Mayiladuthurai it was a neck-to-neck battle between the sitting Congress MLA S.Rajkumar of the Congress and R.Arulselvan of the DMDK, with the latter emerging victorious with 63,326 votes against the 60,309 votes polled by the former.
