Kilpennathur
Kilpennathur — AIADMK's Ramachandran flips DMK fortress by 30,465 votes
AIADMK's S. Ramachandran took Kilpennathur — a Tiruvannamalai paddy belt seat that DMK's K. Pitchandi had held through 2016 and 2021 — by 30,465 votes, with Pitchandi himself as the 2026 runner-up. Pitchandi's earlier wins were emphatic: 34,666 votes in 2016 and 26,787 votes in 2021. AIADMK's only previous hold of this seat came in 2011, when A. K. Aranganathan beat Pitchandi by a knife-edge 4,081 votes. The 2026 swing flipped the seat decisively into the AIADMK column for only the second time since the constituency was created by the 2008 delimitation.
Top 5 candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RAMACHANDRAN.S | AIADMK | 90,503 | 41.62% |
| 2 | PITCHANDI.K | DMK | 60,038 | 27.61% |
| 3 | RAJA.D | TVK | 59,130 | 27.19% |
| 4 | LOGANATHAN.V | NTK | 6,184 | 2.84% |
| 5 | PICHANDI.R | IND | 604 | 0.28% |
Postal ballot breakdown
| # | Candidate | Party | Postal votes | EVM votes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RAMACHANDRAN.S | AIADMK | 1,069 | 89,434 | 90,503 |
| 2 | PITCHANDI.K | DMK | 881 | 59,157 | 60,038 |
| 3 | RAJA.D | TVK | 363 | 58,767 | 59,130 |
| 4 | LOGANATHAN.V | NTK | 92 | 6,092 | 6,184 |
| 5 | SASIKUMAR.S | IND | 10 | 52 | 62 |
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.
Kilpennathur was created by the 2008 delimitation; its first contest was 2011, when AIADMK's Aranganathan edged Pitchandi by 4,081 votes. Pitchandi reclaimed the seat twice (2016 and 2021) before AIADMK's S. Ramachandran flipped it back by a 30,465-vote sweep in 2026 — with Pitchandi finishing as runner-up.
About Kilpennathur
Kilpennathur — AC 64 — sits in the paddy belt north-west of Tiruvannamalai town, drawing irrigation from the Cheyyar river system and from tank-fed agriculture that defines the upper Palar basin. The constituency was created by the 2008 delimitation; before that, the area voted in the older Tiruvannamalai and Polur seats. K. Pitchandi (DMK) was the seat's defining politician for over a decade — he lost the inaugural 2011 contest by 4,081 votes, then took it twice (2016, 2021) before losing it back to AIADMK in 2026.
Kilpennathur & the Tiruvannamalai Plain
Kilpennathur is paddy country with the Annamalai hill on the horizon — Tiruvannamalai's 2,668-foot sacred massif visible from most of the constituency. Drive 25 km south to the Annamalaiyar Temple for the full-moon Girivalam pradakshina that draws lakhs through the night, then west to Sathanur Dam on the Thenpennai for the crocodile park and the dam-deck view. The Polur jaggery markets and the Javadhu Hills' cooler air both sit within an hour's drive.
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