Vikravandi
Vikravandi — PMK's Sivakumar wrests Vanniyar heartland from TVK by 910 votes
Vikravandi has swung between camps since delimitation: CPI(M)'s Ramamurthy in 2011, DMK's Rathamani in 2016, DMK's Pugazhenthi in 2021, and DMK's Anniyur Siva in the 2024 by-poll by 67,757 votes. PMK's Sivakumar now flips it by just 910, edging out TVK's Vijai Vadivel.
Top 5 candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SIVAKUMAR C | PMK | 69,727 | 33.64% |
| 2 | VIJAI VADIVEL A | TVK | 68,817 | 33.20% |
| 3 | ANNIYUR SIVA @ SIVASHANMUGAM A | DMK | 60,941 | 29.40% |
| 4 | SUBHA CHANDRASEKARAN A | NTK | 4,979 | 2.40% |
| 5 | SETTU C | IND | 592 | 0.29% |
Postal ballot breakdown
Postal-ballot leader differs from overall winner. TVK VIJAI VADIVEL A led postal ballots (729), but PMK SIVAKUMAR C won the seat overall (69,727).
| # | Candidate | Party | Postal votes | EVM votes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VIJAI VADIVEL A | TVK | 729 | 68,088 | 68,817 |
| 2 | SIVAKUMAR C | PMK | 699 | 69,028 | 69,727 |
| 3 | ANNIYUR SIVA @ SIVASHANMUGAM A | DMK | 649 | 60,292 | 60,941 |
| 4 | SUBHA CHANDRASEKARAN A | NTK | 84 | 4,895 | 4,979 |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 8 | 393 | 401 |
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.
New seat post-2008 delimitation; DMK's Anniyur Siva won the 2024 by-poll by 67,757 votes.
About Vikravandi
Vikravandi — AC 75 — sits in Viluppuram district on the spine of the PMK heartland, where the Vanniyar Sangam's politics first took organised form in the 1980s. The constituency is paddy and sugarcane country, fed by the Then Pennai system, and its eastern edge is barely 30 km from Pondicherry. Vikravandi shot to attention in the 2024 by-election that the DMK held against PMK pressure. Beyond electoral noise, the taluk hides the 247-acre Tiruvakkarai fossil-wood park — 20-million-year-old petrified trees, gazetted as a National Geo-heritage Monument since 1940.
Vikravandi & the fossil forest
Drive 1 km east of Tiruvakkarai village to the National Fossil Wood Park — about 200 petrified trunks scattered across 247 acres, some stretching 15 metres. Pair it with the village's Chandramouleeswarar temple, then cut 30 km east to Pondicherry's French quarter for evening promenade and filter coffee. Paddy and cane fields fill the drive in between.
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