Tambaram
Tambaram — TVK's Sarathkumar takes airport-belt seat by 35,621, ends DMK's S. R. Raja era
TVK's D. Sarathkumar won Tambaram by 35,621 votes over DMK's R. S. Kiruthika Devi, ending the long Tambaram run of DMK senior S. R. Raja, who had held the seat in 2006, 2016 and 2021 (his 2021 margin was 36,824 over AIADMK's T. K. M. Chinnayya). Tambaram has historically been a swing seat in suburban Chennai's southern belt — DMK in 2006, AIADMK's Chinnayya in 2011 (13,984 margin), DMK again from 2016. The 2026 result is the seat's first non-Dravidian-major win and reflects the rapid-suburb churn around the new Tambaram corporation, formed in 2021 from Pallavaram, Chromepet and Tambaram municipalities.
Top 5 candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | D.SARATHKUMAR | TVK | 1,18,967 | 42.94% |
| 2 | R.S.KIRUTHIKA DEVI | DMK | 83,346 | 30.08% |
| 3 | C.RAJENDRAN | AIADMK | 61,991 | 22.38% |
| 4 | S.TAMILCHELVI | NTK | 11,627 | 4.20% |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 1,512 | 0.55% |
Postal ballot breakdown
Postal-ballot leader differs from overall winner. DMK R.S.KIRUTHIKA DEVI led postal ballots (704), but TVK D.SARATHKUMAR won the seat overall (1,18,967).
| # | Candidate | Party | Postal votes | EVM votes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | R.S.KIRUTHIKA DEVI | DMK | 704 | 82,642 | 83,346 |
| 2 | C.RAJENDRAN | AIADMK | 610 | 61,381 | 61,991 |
| 3 | D.SARATHKUMAR | TVK | 390 | 1,18,577 | 1,18,967 |
| 4 | S.TAMILCHELVI | NTK | 73 | 11,554 | 11,627 |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 15 | 1,497 | 1,512 |
Source: Election Commission of India · Form 20 data via results.eci.gov.in
How this seat compares
- Among the highest-turnout seats — 2,77,052 votes cast.
Past results
Verified winners and runners-up across the last five elections, with the major alliance partners each side fielded.
Tambaram has been the personal seat of DMK's S. R. Raja for two decades — won in 2006, lost in 2011 to AIADMK's T. K. M. Chinnayya, then reclaimed in 2016 and held in 2021 with a career-best 36,824-vote margin. The 2008 delimitation reshaped the boundaries (Pallavaram and parts of Alandur were carved out as new seats) but the Tambaram-Selaiyur core remained. TVK's 2026 win ended Raja's three-term run on the seat.
About Tambaram
Tambaram — AC 31 — covers the central core of Tambaram corporation, formed in 2021 by merging Pallavaram, Chromepet and Tambaram municipalities into TN's newest city corporation. The seat anchors the GST Road belt of suburban Chennai's southern fringe — Madras Christian College in East Tambaram (one of India's oldest, founded 1837), the Vandalur Zoo on the southern edge, the IAF base at Tambaram, and the dense apartment-and-IT corridors that have made this stretch one of Chennai's fastest-urbanising belts.
Tambaram & GST Road
Tambaram is Chennai's southern gateway — the GST Road junction where the highway to Trichy and the Pondicherry road part ways, with Madras Christian College's 365-acre Heritage Campus on one side and Vandalur's Arignar Anna Zoological Park (Asia's largest, 1,500 acres) on the other. The Saturday market on Camp Road is the suburb's old soul, and the Sunday morning queue at Murugan Idli on Velachery Main Road is a south-Chennai institution.
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