The National Democratic Alliance on Wednesday formally announced its seat-sharing agreement for the Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, ANI reported.

The Bharatiya Janata Party will contest 27 of the state’s 234 Assembly seats, seven more than what it had in the 2021 polls. The seats include Chennai’s Mylapore, Coimbatore North, Madurai, Tiruppur, Avadi, Thanjavur, Tiruvannamalai, Nagercoil and Radhapuram.

The Edappadi K Palaniswami-led All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam will contest all seats that have not been allocated to its partners. It is likely to contest about 169 seats.

The Anbumani Ramadoss-led faction of the Pattali Makkal Katchi will contest 18 seats, including Dharmapuri, Pennagaram, Vikravandi, Sholingur, Tiruporur, Uthiramerur, Polur, Gingee and Vriddhachalam.

The TTV Dhinakaran-led Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam was allocated 11 seats. The constituencies include Mannargudi, Tiruvaiyaru and Nanguneri.

While the Tamil Maanila Congress will contest five seats, the Indhiya Jananayaka Katchi will fight on two. The Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam and the Puthiya Bharatham Party will contest one seat each.

The voting will be held in a single phase on April 23. The counting of votes will take place on May 4.

In the 2021 polls, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-led alliance, which includes the Congress and the Left, won the polls.

The alliance clinched 159 seats in the 234-member Assembly. The NDA, mainly comprising the AIADMK and the BJP, had won 75. DMK leader MK Stalin had become the chief minister.