Kilvaithinankuppam
Kilvaithinankuppam 2026: TVK's Thenral Kumar wins by 20,255 votes in SC seat
TVK's E. Thenral Kumar swept Kilvaithinankuppam by 20,255 votes over AIADMK's M. Jegan Moorthy, the sitting MLA who had taken the SC-reserved seat in 2021. AIADMK had also won here in 2011 and 2016 through C. K. Thamizharasan and G. Loganathan, making this a long-running AIADMK pocket. The 2026 margin breaks that hold in one of the wider TVK swings in the Vellore belt.
Top 5 candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | THENRAL KUMAR. E | TVK | 74,305 | 39.55% |
| 2 | JEGAN MOORTHY. M | AIADMK | 54,050 | 28.77% |
| 3 | DR. RAJESWARI. R | DMK | 53,898 | 28.69% |
| 4 | KALAIYENTHIRI. R | NTK | 5,183 | 2.76% |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 972 | 0.52% |
Postal ballot breakdown
Postal-ballot leader differs from overall winner. DMK DR. RAJESWARI. R led postal ballots (682), but TVK THENRAL KUMAR. E won the seat overall (74,305).
| # | Candidate | Party | Postal votes | EVM votes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DR. RAJESWARI. R | DMK | 682 | 53,216 | 53,898 |
| 2 | THENRAL KUMAR. E | TVK | 656 | 73,649 | 74,305 |
| 3 | JEGAN MOORTHY. M | AIADMK | 585 | 53,465 | 54,050 |
| 4 | KALAIYENTHIRI. R | NTK | 95 | 5,088 | 5,183 |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 13 | 959 | 972 |
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.
Kilvaithinankuppam (K. V. Kuppam) was created in the 2008 delimitation; the seat has no pre-2011 record.
About Kilvaithinankuppam
Kilvaithinankuppam, also called K. V. Kuppam, is an SC-reserved seat in Vellore district carved out in the 2008 delimitation. The constituency takes in K. V. Kuppam town and the surrounding panchayats off the Vellore-Gudiyattam road. Its economy is rural - paddy, groundnut and sugarcane, with weaving and matchstick units in the smaller villages, and many residents commuting to Vellore and Gudiyattam for work. Land rights, MGNREGS work, drinking water from the Palar, and welfare access drive the vote here. The seat had stayed AIADMK since its creation; in 2026 it swings to TVK.
Around K. V. Kuppam
K. V. Kuppam's village temples and weekly shandies sit a short drive from the Vellore Fort and Sripuram. The road on to Gudiyattam runs past the matchstick clusters, and the Palar belt north opens into the Javadhu foothills.
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