Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni
Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni — Udhayanidhi holds DMK fortress as father Stalin loses Kolathur
Udhayanidhi Stalin held the seat his grandfather M. Karunanidhi first won here in 2006, beating TVK's D. Selvam by 7,140 votes — preserving the DMK family's central-Chennai stronghold even as his father M. K. Stalin lost Kolathur the same evening. Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni has been DMK's home turf for two decades: Karunanidhi as five-time CM (2006), J. Anbazhagan twice (2011, 2016, before his death from COVID-19 in 2020), and now Udhayanidhi twice (2021, 2026). Udhayanidhi's huge 2021 margin of 69,355 collapsed to 7,140 in 2026 — a sign of how close the TVK wave came to the family's home turf.
Top 5 candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UDHAYANIDHI STALIN | DMK | 62,992 | 44.99% |
| 2 | SELVAM. D | TVK | 55,852 | 39.89% |
| 3 | AADIRAJARAM | AIADMK | 16,507 | 11.79% |
| 4 | AYSHA | NTK | 2,971 | 2.12% |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 643 | 0.46% |
Postal ballot breakdown
| # | Candidate | Party | Postal votes | EVM votes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UDHAYANIDHI STALIN | DMK | 432 | 62,560 | 62,992 |
| 2 | SELVAM. D | TVK | 216 | 55,636 | 55,852 |
| 3 | AADIRAJARAM | AIADMK | 139 | 16,368 | 16,507 |
| 4 | AYSHA | NTK | 12 | 2,959 | 2,971 |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 7 | 636 | 643 |
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.
The 2006 entry is for the predecessor Chepauk seat (M. Karunanidhi as CM); the 2008 delimitation merged Chepauk and Thiruvallikeni (Triplicane) into a single seat. Anbazhagan died of COVID-19 in 2020 after winning two consecutive terms. The Karunanidhi-Anbazhagan-Udhayanidhi line has held the seat without interruption for two decades — but Udhayanidhi's margin collapsed from 69,355 in 2021 to 7,140 in 2026 against TVK.
About Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni
Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni is Chennai's oldest living quarter — covering Triplicane (Thiruvallikeni), Chepauk, Royapettah and the Marina edge. The 2008 delimitation merged the older Chepauk and Triplicane (Thiruvallikeni) constituencies into one. M. Karunanidhi held the predecessor Chepauk seat as CM; the merged constituency has stayed in the DMK family ever since, passing to J. Anbazhagan and then to Karunanidhi's grandson Udhayanidhi. The seat sits on land that holds Chennai's oldest religious institutions and the country's second-oldest Test pitch.
Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni
Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni is where a 1,200-year-old Krishna temple, a granite Nawabi mosque, and India's second-oldest Test pitch sit within one auto ride. The Parthasarathy Temple at Triplicane is one of 108 Divya Desams; the Wallajah Big Mosque (1795) is the largest in Chennai; Chepauk's MA Chidambaram Stadium has been hosting Tests since 1934. Vivekananda recovered from his Chicago address in the Ice House on the Marina, looking out at the sea.
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