As actor-politician Vijay and his Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) get ready to form the government in Tamil Nadu after receiving support from the Congress and smaller parties such as the VCK, the CPI, and the CPI(M), an analysis of the results shows that the debutant party was not only able to carve a space for itself by ousting the Dravidian major in 91 seats, but also played the role of spoilsport in 51 seats by securing more votes than the winner’s margin. Vijay is set to form the first non-DMK and non-AIADMK government in Tamil Nadu since 1967. The TVK’s performance, winning 108 of the total 234 seats, is among the most successful debuts in Tamil Nadu , bettered only by the then actor-politician M G Ramachandran-led AIADMK in 1977, when it won 130 seats after breaking away from the DMK. However, the TVK’s vote share of 34.9% this year is considerably higher than the AIADMK’s 30.4%, which saw the state’s earliest three-cornered contest along with the Congress five decades ago.…