India, May 5 -- Senior Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader and former State Minister of Co-operatives KR Periakaruppan lost the Tiruppattur Assembly seat by just one-vote to the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam candidate R Seenivasa Sethupathy, Election Commission of India (ECI) showed.

The results were declared late on Monday as the counting of votes were going on for over 30 poll booths in the Tiruppattur seat.

At the end of the total 30 rounds of counting, it was formally declared that the 38 year old Seenivasa Sethupathy R of Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam has won by securing 83,375 votes as against DMK's Periakaruppan. KR who lost by 83,374 votes, a margin of just one vote.

Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) candidate Thirumaran K C came third w...