Ambur
Ambur 2026: DMK's Vilwanathan holds leather-town seat by 7,131 votes
DMK's A. C. Vilwanathan retained Ambur by 7,131 votes over TVK's Imthiyaz Pandarattudu Abdu. Vilwanathan had taken the seat in 2021 by a 20,232-vote margin, while AIADMK's R. Balasubramani won here in 2016 and MNMK's A. Aslam Basha in 2011. Ambur's tannery-town politics has tilted DMK in the past two cycles.
Top 5 candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VILWANATHAN. A.C. | DMK | 74,102 | 38.11% |
| 2 | IMTHIYAZ PANDARATTUDU ABDU | TVK | 66,971 | 34.44% |
| 3 | VENKATESAN. R | AIADMK | 47,100 | 24.22% |
| 4 | AFSHIA NASRIN. S | NTK | 4,185 | 2.15% |
| 5 | VISWANATHAN. J | IND | 490 | 0.25% |
Postal ballot breakdown
| # | Candidate | Party | Postal votes | EVM votes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VILWANATHAN. A.C. | DMK | 559 | 73,543 | 74,102 |
| 2 | VENKATESAN. R | AIADMK | 332 | 46,768 | 47,100 |
| 3 | IMTHIYAZ PANDARATTUDU ABDU | TVK | 282 | 66,689 | 66,971 |
| 4 | AFSHIA NASRIN. S | NTK | 42 | 4,143 | 4,185 |
| 5 | FIRDOSE AHMED. M | IND | 6 | 124 | 130 |
Source: Election Commission of India · Form 20 data via results.eci.gov.in
Past results
Verified winners and runners-up across the last five elections, with the major alliance partners each side fielded.
Pre-2008 Ambur boundaries differ from the current seat; 2006 results are not directly comparable.
About Ambur
Ambur in Tirupathur district is a leather and biryani town on the Chennai-Bengaluru highway. Tanneries and footwear units around the Palar make Ambur one of India's biggest leather-export clusters, alongside Ranipet and Vaniyambadi. The town's biryani style, traced to its Nawab kitchens, has spread across Tamil Nadu through chain restaurants. The constituency takes in Ambur municipality, Pernambut and the village belt that supplies labour to the tanneries. Politics here often turns on tannery effluent rules, minority welfare schemes, and the highway expansion that affects local trade. The seat has a sizeable Muslim electorate that shapes alliance arithmetic each cycle.
Around Ambur
Ambur's biryani lanes and tannery quarter sit just off NH-48, with Yelagiri's hill stations a 40-minute drive away. The Vaniyambadi-Pernambut leather corridor stretches west, and Jolarpet's railway junction lies along the same belt.
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