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Kunnam

2026 Legislative Assembly · Result declared 04 May 2026 · ECI official
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Kunnam 2026: Sivasankar widens DMK lead to 15,557

DMK's S. S. Sivasankar kept Kunnam with 87,237 votes, beating AIADMK's A. Saranya on 71,680. The 15,557-vote margin is more than double the 6,329-vote squeak he had over the same party in 2021.

SS
Winner · MLA-elect
SIVASANKAR. S.S
DMK
87,237 votes (38.26% of polled)
→ View Sivasankar . S. S.'s full MLA profile
Runner-up: SARANYA. A (AIADMK) with 71,680 votes — trailed by 15,557 votes (6.82% of polled).
Margin
15,557
votes
Polled
2,27,988
total votes cast
Candidates
20
on the ballot
Winner share
38.26%
of polled

Vote share — top finishers

Top 5 candidates

# Candidate Party Votes Share
1SIVASANKAR. S.SDMK87,23738.26%
2SARANYA. AAIADMK71,68031.44%
3REVATHI MUTHAMILSELVANTVK59,17025.95%
4KEERTHIVASAN. RNTK7,4823.28%
5THANASEKAR. RIND6770.30%

Postal ballot breakdown

Postal ballots are counted before EVM rounds and reflect votes cast by polling-duty staff, government officers on election duty, and absentee voters. 3,060 postal ballots were counted in this constituency.

#CandidatePartyPostal votesEVM votesTotal
1SIVASANKAR. S.SDMK1,45285,78587,237
2SARANYA. AAIADMK96870,71271,680
3REVATHI MUTHAMILSELVANTVK48558,68559,170
4KEERTHIVASAN. RNTK1267,3567,482
5NOTANOTA11473484

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.

2026
S. S. SivasankarDMK
runner-upA. SaranyaAIADMK
15,557vote margin
2021
S. S. SivasankarDMK
runner-upR. T. RamachandranAIADMK
6,329vote margin
2016
R. T. RamachandranAIADMK
runner-upT. DurairajDMK
18,796vote margin
2011
S. S. SivasankarDMK
runner-upDurai. KamarajDMDK
22,957vote margin

Seat created in 2008 delimitation; no pre-2011 results.

About Kunnam

Kunnam is the second assembly seat of Perambalur district and covers Kunnam taluk along with parts of Veppanthattai, hugging the Vellar river belt. The seat is a hard-fought DMK-AIADMK contest with a small DMDK presence in 2011. Around 228,000 voters polled this cycle. Sivasankar won here in 2011 by 22,957 votes, lost narrowly in 2016 to AIADMK's R. T. Ramachandran (margin 18,796 the other way), reclaimed it by 6,329 in 2021, and has now consolidated. The constituency has a strong onion and groundnut farmer vote.

From TN Explorer

Vellar belt villages and hill shrines

Perambalur backcountry
PerambalurVellar riverrural drivesvillage temples

Kunnam itself is a small market town, but the surrounding Vellar villages have well-preserved Chola-period stone temples like the one at Esanai. Pachaimalai's western foothills are a 30 km drive south, and the Vada Vellode siddhar shrine is the usual local pilgrimage stop.

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