Royapuram
Royapuram — TVK takes the Chennai harbour seat by 14,249 votes
TVK's K. V. Vijay Damu won Royapuram by 14,249 votes over DMK's Dr A. Subair Khan — flipping a seat the DMK's Idream R. Murthy had carried in 2021 with a 27,779-vote swing. Before that, AIADMK heavyweight D. Jayakumar held Royapuram across four straight cycles — 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016 — winning by margins of 13,712, 13,503, 21,372 and 8,031 respectively. The seat covers the historic Royapuram fishing harbour, the city's oldest railway terminus (1856), and the working-class belt north of Madras High Court.
Top 5 candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | K.V. VIJAY DAMU | TVK | 59,091 | 46.64% |
| 2 | DR. A. SUBAIR KHAN | DMK | 44,842 | 35.40% |
| 3 | D. JAYAKUMAR | AIADMK | 18,420 | 14.54% |
| 4 | A. BABU MAILAN | NTK | 2,947 | 2.33% |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 459 | 0.36% |
Postal ballot breakdown
| # | Candidate | Party | Postal votes | EVM votes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | K.V. VIJAY DAMU | TVK | 381 | 58,710 | 59,091 |
| 2 | DR. A. SUBAIR KHAN | DMK | 328 | 44,514 | 44,842 |
| 3 | D. JAYAKUMAR | AIADMK | 250 | 18,170 | 18,420 |
| 4 | A. BABU MAILAN | NTK | 29 | 2,918 | 2,947 |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 8 | 451 | 459 |
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.
D. Jayakumar held Royapuram for AIADMK across four consecutive elections (2001-2016) before the 2021 DMK swing.
About Royapuram
Royapuram — AC 17 — sits along the Chennai harbour fringe, taking in the city's oldest fishing kuppam, the 1856 Royapuram railway station (the southern peninsula's oldest surviving terminus), the Madras High Court precinct on its southern edge, and the dense Tamil-Muslim and Anglo-Indian working-class neighbourhoods that grew around the port. The constituency has been a perennial AIADMK stronghold under D. Jayakumar through the 2000s and 2010s, before flipping to DMK in 2021. Beyond the harbour, the seat extends into Tondiarpet, the Mint complex, and the Kasimedu wholesale fish market — Chennai's largest.
Royapuram harbour and the old port
Royapuram is Chennai's deep-history port quarter — the 1856 railway terminus is the oldest surviving station in south India, and Kasimedu fish market at dawn is a sight in its own right. Walk the harbour edge past St Peter's church, the Anglo-Indian quarter, and the colonial godowns, then end at a Tamil-Muslim bakery on Royapuram high road for nei roast and mutton chukka.
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