Thiruporur
Thiruporur — TVK takes the OMR-ECR IT belt by 39,351 votes, the seat's largest-ever margin
TVK's B. Vijayaraj won Thiruporur — Chennai's ECR/OMR IT-belt seat — by 39,351 votes over VCK's R. Panneerdoss. The constituency has been a knife-edge marginal for three cycles: AIADMK's M. Kothandapani held it by just 950 votes over DMK's V. Viswanathan in 2016, and VCK's S. S. Balaji flipped it in 2021 by 1,947 votes over PMK's K. Arumugam — both contests under 1% margin. The 2026 39K sweep is the largest margin Thiruporur has produced in any election since its creation. The seat covers the Old Mahabalipuram Road IT corridor (TCS Siruseri, Cognizant, Infosys) and the East Coast Road tourism belt down to Mahabalipuram and Kovalam.
Top 5 candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | B.VIJAYARAJ | TVK | 1,10,095 | 42.15% |
| 2 | R. PANNEERDOSS | VCK | 70,744 | 27.09% |
| 3 | K. BALU | PMK | 67,392 | 25.80% |
| 4 | AMBETH RAJAN | NTK | 9,616 | 3.68% |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 1,248 | 0.48% |
Postal ballot breakdown
Postal-ballot leader differs from overall winner. PMK K. BALU led postal ballots (547), but TVK B.VIJAYARAJ won the seat overall (1,10,095).
| # | Candidate | Party | Postal votes | EVM votes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | K. BALU | PMK | 547 | 66,845 | 67,392 |
| 2 | R. PANNEERDOSS | VCK | 478 | 70,266 | 70,744 |
| 3 | B.VIJAYARAJ | TVK | 453 | 1,09,642 | 1,10,095 |
| 4 | AMBETH RAJAN | NTK | 78 | 9,538 | 9,616 |
| 5 | D. PANNEERSELVAM | IND | 12 | 772 | 784 |
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.
Thiruporur's 2016 contest (M. Kothandapani AIADMK by 950) and 2021 (S. S. Balaji VCK by 1,947) were both sub-1% photo-finishes. VCK's Balaji ran on the DMK alliance ticket in 2021 — the seat was a junior-partner allocation, hence the dual-pill rendering for that row. TVK's 39,351-vote 2026 sweep is the largest margin the seat has ever produced.
About Thiruporur
Thiruporur — AC 33 — runs along Chennai's southeastern coast and the OMR IT corridor: from the SIPCOT Hi-Tech Park at Siruseri (TCS, Cognizant, Wipro), south through Kelambakkam and Thiruporur town, down to Mahabalipuram's UNESCO Pallava monuments and the Kovalam beach belt. The Thiruporur Murugan temple (Kandaswamy temple, Pallava-era origins, redeveloped by the Sambandar Aandavar in the 17th century) is the town's spiritual anchor. The seat has been one of TN's tightest marginals in the post-2008 era — both 2016 and 2021 were decided by under 2% of the vote.
Thiruporur & the OMR-ECR Belt
Thiruporur is the seat that holds two Chennais — the OMR IT corridor on its inland edge (Siruseri's SIPCOT campuses, the Kelambakkam medical college belt, the Thiruporur Murugan hilltop temple) and the ECR's pure-coast belt (Mahabalipuram's UNESCO Pallava monuments, the Kovalam-Cholamandal artists' village stretch, the Crocodile Bank at Vadanemmeli). End the drive at Mamallapuram's shore temple at sunset, or carry on to Kalpakkam's atomic township gateway.
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