Thiru-Vi-Ka-Nagar
Thiru-Vi-Ka-Nagar (SC) — TVK's M. R. Pallavi unseats two-term DMK MLA Sivakumar
TVK's M. R. Pallavi won Thiru-Vi-Ka-Nagar (SC) by 22,333 votes over DMK's K. S. Ravichandran, ending the DMK's run on a seat where P. Sivakumar had won in 2016 (margin 3,322) and again in 2021 by a thumping 55,013. AIADMK's V. Neelakandan had carried the constituency in 2011 by 29,341 votes before the DMK swing began. Thiru-Vi-Ka-Nagar — named for Tamil scholar and freedom-fighter Thiru Vi. Ka. — is the SC-reserved seat covering Perambur and the old railway-quarters belt of north Chennai.
Top 5 candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M. R. PALLAVI | TVK | 69,125 | 48.36% |
| 2 | K. S. RAVICHANDRAN | DMK | 46,792 | 32.74% |
| 3 | PORKODI ARMSTRONG | AIADMK | 23,304 | 16.30% |
| 4 | JAGADESH CHANDER .M | NTK | 2,658 | 1.86% |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 527 | 0.37% |
Postal ballot breakdown
Postal-ballot leader differs from overall winner. DMK K. S. RAVICHANDRAN led postal ballots (412), but TVK M. R. PALLAVI won the seat overall (69,125).
| # | Candidate | Party | Postal votes | EVM votes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | K. S. RAVICHANDRAN | DMK | 412 | 46,380 | 46,792 |
| 2 | M. R. PALLAVI | TVK | 357 | 68,768 | 69,125 |
| 3 | PORKODI ARMSTRONG | AIADMK | 224 | 23,080 | 23,304 |
| 4 | JAGADESH CHANDER .M | NTK | 21 | 2,637 | 2,658 |
| 5 | S JAYAKALPANA | RPI( | 8 | 342 | 350 |
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.
Constituency was created in the 2008 delimitation as an SC-reserved seat; 2011 was its first election.
About Thiru-Vi-Ka-Nagar
Thiru-Vi-Ka-Nagar — AC 15, reserved for Scheduled Caste candidates — is a Chennai-north constituency carved out by the 2008 delimitation and named after Tamil scholar and Gandhian freedom-fighter Thiru. V. Kalyanasundaram (Thiru Vi. Ka.). The seat covers Perambur and its surrounding railway quarters, the Otteri working-class belt, and parts of Pulianthope and Kolathur fringe. Perambur Carriage Works and the Loco Works — both more than a century old — gave the area its early industrial spine; today the seat is a mix of railway colonies, dense low-rise housing, and the Madhavaram dairy belt to the north.
Perambur railway country
The seat's heart is Perambur — home to the Loco Works (1856) and Carriage Works that built India's railway stock for generations. Walk the Otteri lake bund at dawn, then head to Vyasarpadi and Pulianthope for north-Chennai biryani and the Erikarai murukku-and-bonda belt that locals queue at every evening.
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