Vilavancode
Vilavancode 2026: Congress holds fortress as Praveen wins by 20,970 votes
Praveen T.T kept Vilavancode in the Congress column with 70,755 votes, brushing aside TVK's Michael Kumar K on 49,785. The 20,970-vote margin extends the INC's unbroken hold on this Kanyakumari seat to four straight assemblies plus the 2024 byelection, the longest Congress run anywhere in Tamil Nadu.
Top 5 candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PRAVEEN T.T | CONG | 70,755 | 41.20% |
| 2 | MICHAEL KUMAR K | TVK | 49,785 | 28.99% |
| 3 | VIJAYADHARANI S | BJP | 45,604 | 26.55% |
| 4 | MARIA STELLA | NTK | 6,199 | 3.61% |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 828 | 0.48% |
Postal ballot breakdown
| # | Candidate | Party | Postal votes | EVM votes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PRAVEEN T.T | INC | 1,377 | 69,378 | 70,755 |
| 2 | VIJAYADHARANI S | BJP | 928 | 44,676 | 45,604 |
| 3 | MICHAEL KUMAR K | TVK | 757 | 49,028 | 49,785 |
| 4 | MARIA STELLA | NTK | 199 | 6,000 | 6,199 |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 17 | 811 | 828 |
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.
Congress has won Vilavancode in 2011, 2016, 2021, the 2024 byelection and 2026 - its longest unbroken run on any seat in Tamil Nadu.
About Vilavancode
Vilavancode is the westernmost assembly seat in Tamil Nadu, hugging the Kerala border at Kaliyakkavilai where the highway crosses into Thiruvananthapuram district. The constituency takes in Marthandam, the tapioca and rubber market town, and a dense Christian belt around Kuzhithurai with a higher church-per-square-kilometre count than almost anywhere in the state. The economy runs on rubber sheet processing, banana and tapioca trading and a heavy remittance flow from Gulf and Kerala-side employment. Bilingual Tamil-Malayalam signage, Latin and CSI Christian institutions, and a Nadar-dominated trader class give the seat a distinct social profile that has voted Congress in every assembly election since 2011, plus the 2024 byelection.
Travel from Vilavancode
The Mathur trough aqueduct, one of the longest and tallest in Asia, is a 30-minute drive from Marthandam. Pair it with a stop at Thirparappu falls and a Kerala-side lunch across the Kaliyakkavilai checkpost. The Sanguthurai and Thengapattinam beaches make a clean afternoon return loop.
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