Mailam
Mailam — AIADMK's Shanmugam takes Mailam Murugan seat by 30,041 votes over TVK
AIADMK's C. V. Shanmugam took Mailam — the Viluppuram seat that wraps around the Mailam Subramanya Swamy hill temple — by 30,041 votes over TVK's A. Vijay Niranjan. The seat has flipped each cycle since the 2008 delimitation: AIADMK's K. P. Nagarajan won in 2011 by 20,081 votes, DMK's R. Masilamani in 2016 by 12,306, PMK's C. Sivakumar (on the AIADMK alliance ticket) by a knife-edge 2,230 votes in 2021, and AIADMK's Shanmugam in 2026 by the seat's largest margin yet. The Mailam Subramanya Swamy temple — perched on a 200-foot hill, with the deity worshipped as the elder Murugan — has been the constituency's defining landmark since the 18th century.
Top 5 candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SHANMUGAM C VE | AIADMK | 82,353 | 43.95% |
| 2 | VIJAY NIRANJAN A | TVK | 52,312 | 27.92% |
| 3 | VENKATESAN L | DMDK | 46,267 | 24.69% |
| 4 | VIDJAIVIKRAM S | NTK | 4,383 | 2.34% |
| 5 | SIVA S | IND | 552 | 0.29% |
Postal ballot breakdown
| # | Candidate | Party | Postal votes | EVM votes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SHANMUGAM C VE | AIADMK | 917 | 81,436 | 82,353 |
| 2 | VENKATESAN L | DMDK | 541 | 45,726 | 46,267 |
| 3 | VIJAY NIRANJAN A | TVK | 329 | 51,983 | 52,312 |
| 4 | VIDJAIVIKRAM S | NTK | 42 | 4,341 | 4,383 |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 10 | 289 | 299 |
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.
Mailam was created by the 2008 delimitation; its first contest was 2011. The seat has flipped at every cycle — making it one of TN's purest swing seats — and the 2026 margin of 30,041 votes is the largest result the seat has produced. The 2021 winner C. Sivakumar contested as PMK on the AIADMK alliance ticket; in 2026 PMK again ran on the AIADMK alliance, but the AIADMK itself reclaimed the seat through C. V. Shanmugam.
About Mailam
Mailam — AC 71 — covers a stretch of north-eastern Viluppuram district, named for the 200-foot Mailam hill that holds the Subramanya Swamy temple — one of the lesser-circuited but historically significant Murugan shrines in the region, sitting roughly 80 km south-west of Pondicherry. The constituency was created by the 2008 delimitation; before that, the area voted in the older Tindivanam and Vanur seats. The seat has flipped at every contest since 2011 — AIADMK, DMK, AIADMK-alliance PMK, and AIADMK again — making it one of TN's most genuine swing seats.
Mailam & the Murugan Hill
Mailam is named for the 200-foot hill that holds the Subramanya Swamy temple — Mailam Murugan, an old Tamil Vellala-tradition shrine where the deity is worshipped as the elder Murugan, with a granite-step climb that opens to a view across the Viluppuram plain. Drive 80 km north-east to Pondicherry for the French quarter and the Promenade, or 30 km north for the Gingee Fort triple hill — the Vijayanagara stronghold that the British called the 'Troy of the East'.
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