Actor-politician and Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan contested Tamil Nadu Assembly elections 2021. Kamal was contesting in elections held at Tamil Nadu from the Coimbatore constituency where he lost the assembly seat on Sunday.

The neck-to-neck fight of MNM chief Kamal Hassan and BJP candidate Vanathi Srinivasan hailed the people watching election. The early trends had shown Kamal Haasan was leading from the seat, but late on in the counting the BJP candidate pulled ahead with a margin of 1540 votes and won. However, Haasan managed to secure about 33.26 percent, while the BJP candidate Srinivasan scored 34.38 percent of the total votes. The DMK-led alliance scored an emphatic win in the state assembly polls. The actor-turned-politician took it to his official Twitter handle later thanking all the people who voted for him and his party. Meanwhile, MNM chief also congratulated DMK president MK Stalin on his victory. "Heartfelt congratulations to the big success MK Stalin.” With this BJP candidate Vanathi Srinivasan also took to Twitter to thank the people for their support.

According to the Election Commission, the DMK has won 103 seats. AIADMK also won 54 seats and is leading on 13 while its ally BJP won three seats and is leading on a seat. Congress, which was contesting as an ally of DMK, has won 10 seats and is leading on 8 more.

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