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Chennai district · 16 seats · April 2026 election

Chennai MLAs and 2026 election results

April 2026 Assembly election: TVK won 14 of Chennai's 16 seats; DMK 2. By votes: TVK 46.3%, DMK 30.9%, AIADMK 14.0%. The same seats went DMK 15, INC 1 in 2021.

TVK 14 DMK 2

Votes counted
24,40,185
Turnout
84.3%
Seats that changed party since 2021
14 of 16

Chennai's 16 MLAs, elected April 2026

ACSeatMLA electedMarginRunner-upTurnout
11Dr.Radhakrishnan NagarN. Marie Wilson TVK49,668DMK90.9%Booths
12PeramburC. Joseph Vijay TVK53,715DMK90.3%Booths
13KolathurV. S. Babu TVK8,795DMK86.9%Booths
14VillivakkamAadhav Arjuna TVK17,302DMK86.6%Booths
15Thiru-Vi-Ka-Nagar (SC)M. R. Pallavi TVK22,333DMK79.2%Booths
16Egmore (SC)Rajmohan TVK10,804DMK86.3%Booths
17RoyapuramK. V. Vijay Damu TVK14,249DMK79.8%Booths
18HarbourP. K. Sekarbabu DMK11,750TVK82.9%Booths
19Chepauk-ThiruvallikeniUdhayanidhi Stalin DMK7,140TVK84.8%Booths
20Thousand LightsJ. C. D. Prabhakar TVK15,141DMK83.7%Booths
21Anna NagarV. K. Ramkumar TVK21,363DMK86.5%Booths
22VirugampakkamR. Sabarinathan TVK27,086DMK86.2%Booths
23SaidapetM. Arul Prakasam TVK28,514DMK78.6%Booths
24ThiyagarayanagarN. Anand TVK13,027AIADMK84.4%Booths
25MylaporeP. Venkataramanan TVK28,972DMK75.5%Booths
26VelacheryR. Kumar TVK33,305AIADMK85.1%Booths

Chennai in numbers

Rank among the 38 districts, 1 is the highest; = means tied. Median is the median district. Turnout is the Election Commission's count of votes (postal votes included) as a share of electors.
MeasureChennaiRankMedian
Seats161st6
Electors28,93,5052nd13,16,624
Turnout84.3%26th86.5%
Women among electors51.7%5th51.1%
Median winning margin, votes19,3326th9,838
Seats that changed party since 202114 of 1610th71%
NOTA share of votes0.51%4th0.38%
Closest seatChepauk-Thiruvallikeni, won by 7,140 votes
Biggest marginPerambur, won by 53,715

Vote share in Chennai, 2026 against 2021

  • TVK46.3% 2026— 2021
  • DMK30.9% 202648.9% 2021
  • AIADMK14.0% 202625.1% 2021
  • NTK2.9% 20267.2% 2021
  • INC1.9% 20262.8% 2021
  • BJP1.3% 20263.0% 2021

Share of the 24,40,185 votes counted in the district's seats in 2026 (ECI, postal votes and NOTA included) and of 24,16,815 in 2021 (ECI 2021 Detailed Results; allies who fought on a big party's symbol are counted with it). TVK did not contest in 2021.

Seats that changed party since 2021 (14 of 16)

What each seat is

  • Dr.Radhakrishnan NagarDr. Radhakrishnan Nagar (AC 11), better known as RK Nagar, is one of old Madras's defining seats — a stretch of north-Chennai's harbour fringe that takes in Royapuram, Tondiarpet, Kaladipet and parts of the port and railway colonies.
  • PeramburPerambur is a densely-built assembly constituency in north Chennai, covering the railway colony belt around Perambur Loco Works, Pulianthope, Otteri, and parts of Kolathur.
  • KolathurKolathur is a north Chennai assembly seat created by the 2008 delimitation — its very first contest was in 2011, and Stalin won all three editions (2011, 2016, 2021).
  • VillivakkamVillivakkam (AC 14) is a densely-built Chennai-north constituency wedged between Anna Nagar to the south and Ambattur to the west, threaded by the Korattur and Villivakkam tanks and the Chennai-Arakkonam suburban rail line.
  • Thiru-Vi-Ka-NagarThiru-Vi-Ka-Nagar — AC 15, reserved for Scheduled Caste candidates — is a Chennai-north constituency carved out by the 2008 delimitation and named after Tamil scholar and Gandhian freedom-fighter Thiru.
  • EgmoreEgmore is a reserved (SC) seat in the heart of Chennai, centred on the Egmore railway terminus that funnels southern Tamil Nadu into the city.
  • RoyapuramRoyapuram (AC 17) sits along the Chennai harbour fringe, taking in the city's oldest fishing kuppam, the 1856 Royapuram railway station and the Madras High Court precinct on its southern edge.
  • HarbourHarbour stretches along Chennai's working waterfront — Royapuram, Tondiarpet edge, Mannady, Old Washermenpet and the dock approaches.
  • Chepauk-ThiruvallikeniChepauk-Thiruvallikeni is Chennai's oldest living quarter — covering Triplicane (Thiruvallikeni), Chepauk, Royapettah and the Marina edge.
  • Thousand LightsThousand Lights sits in central Chennai around the Anna Salai spine — Royapettah, parts of Triplicane, Gopalapuram and Wallajah Road — taking its name from the 19th-century Saheb Mohammed Ibrahim mosque whose oil lamps once lit the precinct.
  • Anna NagarAnna Nagar is one of Chennai's largest planned middle-class suburbs, laid out in the early 1960s and named after C. N. Annadurai.
  • VirugampakkamVirugampakkam (AC 22) is a Chennai-west constituency created by the 2008 delimitation, covering Vadapalani, K. K. Nagar fringe, Saligramam, Virugambakkam proper and stretches of the Mount-Poonamallee Road.
  • SaidapetSaidapet (AC 23) sits at the geographic centre of Chennai, straddling the Adyar river and taking in T. Nagar's wholesale-and-retail belt, Saidapet town with its 18th-century Wallajah-era origins, the Little Mount and Mambalam railway-colony quarters, and parts of Nandanam.
  • ThiyagarayanagarThiyagarayanagar — universally called T. Nagar — is Chennai's textile and gold retail core, named after the Justice Party leader Sir Pitti Theagaraya Chetty.
  • MylaporeMylapore (AC 25) is the cultural and religious heart of old Madras, predating the city itself by centuries.
  • VelacheryVelachery (AC 26) is the south Chennai constituency that has carried the brunt of the city's IT-corridor expansion since the 2000s.

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Page updated 2 October 2026

Sources: Election Commission of India, candidate-wise results declared 4 May 2026 (results.eci.gov.in); electors from the Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu; 2021: ECI statistical report, Detailed Results.

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