Of the 22 constituencies the party had contested, it managed to secure victory only in one Assembly segment. The worst performance before this was in 2021 Assembly polls where the party could get only two of its representatives elected from the 14 seats the Congress contested in alliance with the DMK, CPI and VCK
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