Ezhilarasi Vijayendran (Naam Tamilar Katchi), V. Muthuraja (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam), N. Ramachandran (Bharatiya Janata Party), E. Ramalingam (Party for the Rights of Other backward Classes), K.M. Shariff (Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam), S. Niyaz Ahamed (Tamizhaga Vaazhvurimai Katchi), G. Manimegalai (Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)), A. Rajasekar (Veerath Thiyagi Viswanathadoss Thozhilalarkal Katchi), K. Rengan (Puthiya Tamilagam), G. Arivazhagan (Independent), Kangatharan .P (Independent), C. Karuppaiah (Independent), C. Karuppaiah (Independent), K. Kailasakumar (Independent), C. Govindasamy (Independent), R. Sivakumar (Independent), A. Subaresh Raja (Independent), Senthilnathan .B (Independent), S. Selvaraj (Independent), K. Dhanagopal (Independent), G. Duraisaravanan (Independent), M. A. Muthukumar (Independent), G. Muthuraj (Independent), K. Murugesan (Independent), D. Ramesh (Independent), A. Radhakrishnan (Independent), Ramachandran .C (Independent), C. Ramachandran (Independent), R. Ramachandran (Independent), and V.R. Jayakumar (Independent) — 30 candidates contesting from Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu's 2026 Assembly Election. Votes cast across this constituency are now being counted, and early trends from each round will be closely watched as the day unfolds. Pudukkottai is a General constituency. In 2021, V . Muthuraja of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam won by a margin of 13,001 votes. The 2016 winner was Periyannan Arassu of the DMK. the final result will show which candidate has secured the most votes in Pudukkottai in 2026.