The schedule for the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly election was announced on March 15. Polling will be held on April 23 and votes will be counted on May 4, so the whole process takes 51 days, against 66 days in 2021. Parties get a 38-day campaign window, ending at 5 p.m. on April 21. The State has 5.67 crore electors and 75,032 polling booths (44,065 rural, 30,967 urban), averaging 756 electors per booth. Of the 234 constituencies, 44 are reserved for Scheduled Castes and two for Scheduled Tribes. A booth will be set up at Vellimalai in Varusanadu, Theni district, for just five voters.