Ambattur
Ambattur — TVK's Balamurugan storms DMK fortress by 58,781
TVK's G. Balamurugan won Ambattur by 58,781 votes over DMK's Dr A.P. Poornima. Created in 2008, Ambattur was an AIADMK seat through 2011 and 2016 (S. Vedachalam, V. Alexander) before DMK's Joseph Samuel swept it by 42,146 votes in 2021 — TVK's 58k margin is the largest the seat has seen.
Top 5 candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BALAMURUGAN.G | TVK | 1,33,339 | 51.36% |
| 2 | DR A.P. POORNIMA | DMK | 74,558 | 28.72% |
| 3 | K.N. SEKAR | PMK | 35,997 | 13.86% |
| 4 | SILAMBARASAN | NTK | 11,088 | 4.27% |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 1,490 | 0.57% |
Postal ballot breakdown
Postal-ballot leader differs from overall winner. DMK DR A.P. POORNIMA led postal ballots (402), but TVK BALAMURUGAN.G won the seat overall (1,33,339).
| # | Candidate | Party | Postal votes | EVM votes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DR A.P. POORNIMA | DMK | 402 | 74,156 | 74,558 |
| 2 | BALAMURUGAN.G | TVK | 344 | 1,32,995 | 1,33,339 |
| 3 | K.N. SEKAR | PMK | 171 | 35,826 | 35,997 |
| 4 | SILAMBARASAN | NTK | 39 | 11,049 | 11,088 |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 16 | 1,474 | 1,490 |
Source: Election Commission of India · Form 20 data via results.eci.gov.in
How this seat compares
- Top-10 biggest margin in TN 2026 — a 58,781-vote lead.
- Among the highest winner shares in TN 2026 — 51.4% of polled votes.
Past results
Verified winners and runners-up across the last five elections, with the major alliance partners each side fielded.
Ambattur was created at the 2008 delimitation, so no pre-2008 entry exists.
About Ambattur
Ambattur (AC 8) is the industrial heart of Chennai's north-west, anchored by the Ambattur Industrial Estate — set up by SIDCO in 1964 and inaugurated by K. Kamaraj in 1965 as the second organised industrial estate in Madras after Guindy. Spread over more than 1,300 acres, it hosts 1,500-plus small and medium units, dominated by automobile components, garments and engineering products, making it one of the largest small-scale clusters in South Asia. The town shares its western flank with Avadi's defence belt and feeds the Chennai auto cluster's Tier-2 supply chain.
Ambattur & the Auto Component Belt
Ambattur is where Chennai's automotive supply chain breathes — over 1,500 small units across the 1964 SIDCO estate, feeding the Hyundai, Royal Enfield and Ashok Leyland lines. Walk the Ambattur OT tank bund at sunset, or drive west into Avadi's tank-factory belt. The Red Hills reservoir is a short detour north for an evening at the water's edge.
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