Villivakkam
Villivakkam — TVK strategist Aadhav Arjuna wins his own debut by 17,302 votes
TVK's Aadhav Arjuna — the party's election strategist and a key architect of Vijay's 2026 ground game — won Villivakkam by 17,302 votes over DMK's Karthik Mohan, taking a seat the DMK had held in three of the last four cycles. A. Vetriazhagan had carried it for DMK in 2021 by 37,237, B. Ranganathan won it in 2016 and 2006, and AIADMK's J. C. D. Prabhakar broke the run in 2011 with a 10,782-vote win. Villivakkam covers a working-class Chennai-north pocket of railway colonies, light-engineering units and the Konnur high road shopping belt.
Top 5 candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AADHAV ARJUNA | TVK | 66,445 | 47.29% |
| 2 | KARTHIK MOHAN | DMK | 49,143 | 34.98% |
| 3 | VIJAYAKUMAR S.R | AIADMK | 19,338 | 13.76% |
| 4 | ROSHINI S | NTK | 4,310 | 3.07% |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 695 | 0.49% |
Postal ballot breakdown
Postal-ballot leader differs from overall winner. DMK KARTHIK MOHAN led postal ballots (413), but TVK AADHAV ARJUNA won the seat overall (66,445).
| # | Candidate | Party | Postal votes | EVM votes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KARTHIK MOHAN | DMK | 413 | 48,730 | 49,143 |
| 2 | AADHAV ARJUNA | TVK | 296 | 66,149 | 66,445 |
| 3 | VIJAYAKUMAR S.R | AIADMK | 175 | 19,163 | 19,338 |
| 4 | ROSHINI S | NTK | 23 | 4,287 | 4,310 |
| 5 | KARTHICK S | IND | 6 | 42 | 48 |
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.
Aadhav Arjuna fought his first electoral contest from Villivakkam after running TVK's statewide strategy through the campaign.
About Villivakkam
Villivakkam — AC 14 — is a densely-built Chennai-north constituency wedged between Anna Nagar to the south and Ambattur to the west, threaded by the Korattur and Villivakkam tanks and the Chennai-Arakkonam suburban rail line. The seat's character was set by the Integral Coach Factory and the railway colonies that grew around it from the 1950s, with later layers of Tamil Nadu Housing Board flats, the Konnur high road retail strip, and the small-scale engineering units that feed Ambattur's industrial estate. The lakes — once polluted, now partly restored — remain the seat's defining open space.
Villivakkam tank country
Villivakkam's hidden draw is its water — the Villivakkam and Korattur tanks have been partly cleaned up and now host morning walkers and migratory birds. The Integral Coach Factory campus next door has shaped the neighbourhood since 1955. Eat your way down Konnur high road for old-school Chennai tiffin, then loop back via Anna Nagar Tower Park.
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