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Perambalur

2026 Legislative Assembly · Result declared 04 May 2026 · ECI official
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Perambalur 2026: TVK's Sivakumar wins by 14,393 votes

TVK's K. Sivakumar took Perambalur with 90,882 votes, ahead of DMK's Dr. S. T. Jayalakshmi on 76,489. The 14,393-vote margin overturns the 31,034-vote DMK win that M. Prabhakaran posted in 2021.

SIVAKUMAR. K
Winner · MLA-elect
SIVAKUMAR. K
TVK
90,882 votes (36.39% of polled)
Runner-up: DR. JAYALAKSHMI. S.T (DMK) with 76,489 votes — trailed by 14,393 votes (5.76% of polled).
Margin
14,393
votes
Polled
2,49,740
total votes cast
Candidates
12
on the ballot
Winner share
36.39%
of polled

Vote share — top finishers

Top 5 candidates

# Candidate Party Votes Share
1SIVAKUMAR. KTVK90,88236.39%
2DR. JAYALAKSHMI. S.TDMK76,48930.63%
3THAMIZHSELVAN. RAIADMK72,71629.12%
4SUGANYA. JNTK9,4743.79%
5NOTANOTA1,1600.46%

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. 4,026 postal ballots were counted in this constituency.

Postal-ballot leader differs from overall winner. DMK DR. JAYALAKSHMI. S.T led postal ballots (2,042), but TVK SIVAKUMAR. K won the seat overall (90,882).

#CandidatePartyPostal votesEVM votesTotal
1DR. JAYALAKSHMI. S.TDMK2,04274,44776,489
2SIVAKUMAR. KTVK1,10689,77690,882
3THAMIZHSELVAN. RAIADMK67672,04072,716
4SUGANYA. JNTK1629,3129,474
5NOTANOTA281,1321,160

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
K. SivakumarTVK
runner-upDr. S. T. JayalakshmiDMK
14,393vote margin
2021
M. PrabhakaranDMK
runner-upR. ThamizhselvanAIADMK
31,034vote margin
2016
R. ThamizhselvanAIADMK
runner-upP. SivakamiDMK
6,853vote margin
2011
R. ThamizhselvanAIADMK
runner-upM. PrabhakaranDMK
19,079vote margin
2006pre-delim.
M. RajkumarDMK
runner-upM. SundaramAIADMK
6,638vote margin

About Perambalur

Perambalur is the district headquarters town of Perambalur, a small interior district carved out of Tiruchirappalli in 1995. The constituency covers Perambalur taluk and parts of Veppanthattai, and the local economy turns on sugar (Eid Parry's Pugalur and the Perambalur sugar mill) and onions, with the AC seeing active onion-price politics every cycle. About 249,700 voters polled in 2026. The seat has swung sharply: AIADMK's Thamizhselvan won it in both 2011 (by 19,079) and 2016 (by 6,853), DMK's Prabhakaran took it in 2021, and TVK has now broken through.

From TN Explorer

Onion country and Vada Vellode

Perambalur district sights

Perambalur town's wholesale onion market is a working-day spectacle. The Ranjankudi Fort ruins, a 17th-century Nawab-era post on the Trichy-Chennai NH-38, sit just south of the AC, and the Siddhar Koil at Vada Vellode is a quiet cave shrine worth the detour.

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