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Kancheepuram district · 4 seats · April 2026 election

Kancheepuram MLAs and 2026 election results

April 2026 Assembly election: TVK won all 4 of Kancheepuram's seats. By votes: TVK 40.9%, DMK 20.9%, AIADMK 18.9%. The same seats went DMK 3, INC 1 in 2021.

TVK 4

Votes counted
10,66,740
Turnout
88.3%
Seats that changed party since 2021
4 of 4

Kancheepuram's 4 MLAs, elected April 2026

ACSeatMLA electedMarginRunner-upTurnout
28AlandurM. Harish TVK29,609DMK86.9%Booths
29Sriperumbudur (SC)K. Thennarasu TVK54,246INC86.7%Booths
36UthiramerurJ. Munirathinam TVK14,223DMK92.5%Booths
37KancheepuramR. V. Ranjithkumar TVK15,488AIADMK88.4%Booths

Kancheepuram 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.
MeasureKancheepuramRankMedian
Seats4=25th6
Electors12,07,75724th13,16,624
Turnout88.3%14th86.5%
Women among electors51.5%8th51.1%
Median winning margin, votes22,5483rd9,838
Seats that changed party since 20214 of 4=1st71%
NOTA share of votes0.43%10th0.38%
Closest seatUthiramerur, won by 14,223 votes
Biggest marginSriperumbudur, won by 54,246

Vote share in Kancheepuram, 2026 against 2021

  • TVK40.9% 2026— 2021
  • DMK20.9% 202633.2% 2021
  • AIADMK18.9% 202628.9% 2021
  • INC8.8% 202612.2% 2021
  • PMK5.9% 20269.7% 2021
  • NTK3.4% 20266.8% 2021

Share of the 10,66,740 votes counted in the district's seats in 2026 (ECI, postal votes and NOTA included) and of 9,41,972 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 (4 of 4)

What each seat is

  • AlandurAlandur (AC 28) is the south-west Chennai constituency that wraps around Chennai International Airport, taking in St Thomas Mount, Alandur town, Pallavaram cantonment and parts of Meenambakkam.
  • SriperumbudurSriperumbudur (AC 29, SC reserved) is the temple-town turned industrial spine of Kancheepuram district, 40 km west of Chennai on the Bangalore highway.
  • UthiramerurUthiramerur is a paddy-and-temple seat in Kancheepuram district, world-famous for the 1,200-year-old Vaikuntha Perumal temple inscriptions that record one of the earliest documented village-council electoral systems.
  • KancheepuramKancheepuram is one of the seven moksha-puri cities of Hindu tradition and the seat of the Kanchi Kamakoti math, with a constituency that takes in the Ekambareswarar, Kamakshi Amman, Varadaraja Perumal and Kailasanathar temples.

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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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