DMK leader Chandhirakumar VC won Erode East bypoll in Tamil Nadu with a margin of over 91,000 votes. Chandhirakumar got 1,15,709 votes while NTK leader MK Seethalakshmi received 24,151 votes. Independent candidate K Kalaiyarasan came third with 963 votes. There were over 40 candidates, most of them Independents, in fray. AIADMK, along with other Opposition parties, had boycotted the polls.