Lalgudi
Lalgudi — AIADMK's Leemarose Martin ends DMK's two-decade hold by 2,739
Leemarose Martin of AIADMK has won Lalgudi by 2,739 votes against TVK's Ku Pa Krishnan, ending a long DMK run by A. Soundarapandian. Soundarapandian held Lalgudi for DMK across four straight elections: 2006 (by 3,557 over AIADMK), 2011 (by 7,155 over DMDK), 2016 (by 3,837), and 2021 (by 16,949 over AIADMK's D.R. Dharmaraj). 2026 is the first AIADMK win in this Tiruchirappalli-district seat in two decades.
Top 5 candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LEEMAROSE MARTIN | AIADMK | 60,795 | 33.12% |
| 2 | KU PA KRISHNAN | TVK | 58,056 | 31.63% |
| 3 | T. PARIVALLAL | DMK | 55,565 | 30.27% |
| 4 | N. MADHAN | NTK | 6,992 | 3.81% |
| 5 | R. DINESHKUMAR | IND | 403 | 0.22% |
Postal ballot breakdown
Postal-ballot leader differs from overall winner. DMK T. PARIVALLAL led postal ballots (769), but AIADMK LEEMAROSE MARTIN won the seat overall (60,795).
| # | Candidate | Party | Postal votes | EVM votes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | T. PARIVALLAL | DMK | 769 | 54,796 | 55,565 |
| 2 | LEEMAROSE MARTIN | AIADMK | 466 | 60,329 | 60,795 |
| 3 | KU PA KRISHNAN | TVK | 461 | 57,595 | 58,056 |
| 4 | N. MADHAN | NTK | 85 | 6,907 | 6,992 |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 6 | 384 | 390 |
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.
DMK's A. Soundarapandian held Lalgudi continuously from 2006 to 2021; 2026 marks AIADMK's first win there in 20 years.
About Lalgudi
Lalgudi — AC 143 — is a Cauvery-paddy seat in eastern Tiruchirappalli district, named for the Saptarisheeswarar temple on the Kollidam (north Cauvery) bank, a 1,200-year-old Pallava-Chola shrine where the seven Vedic sages — Saptarishi — are said to have worshipped Shiva. Saint-composer Tyagaraja set his five 'Lalgudi Pancharatna' kritis here. The town is also the birthplace of Lalgudi G. Jayaraman (1930-2013), the Carnatic violinist whose bani redefined the instrument's vocal-mimic style. Srirangam's Ranganathaswamy temple sits 20 km west and Anbil's Vaishnavite shrine just south. The plain runs on Cauvery-canal samba paddy, sugarcane and brick kilns.
Lalgudi & the Cauvery temple belt
Lalgudi is a Carnatic-music pilgrimage as much as a temple stop — sit a while at Saptarisheeswarar, the Kollidam-bank shrine where Tyagaraja composed the Lalgudi Pancharatnam, and pass the violinist Lalgudi Jayaraman's birth-house. From there it's a 20-km drive to Srirangam's Ranganathaswamy and Trichy's Rockfort, or a slower loop through Anbil's Vaishnavite shrine and the brick-kiln villages.
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