Virugampakkam
Virugampakkam — TVK's Sabarinathan flips Chennai's IT-corridor seat by 27,086 votes
TVK's R. Sabarinathan won Virugampakkam by 27,086 votes over DMK's A. M. V. Prabhakara Raja — overturning the sitting MLA's 18,367-vote 2021 win. The seat has changed hands every cycle since it was created in 2008: DMDK's B. Parthasarathy took the inaugural 2011 contest by 14,094, AIADMK's Virugai V. N. Ravi squeaked through in 2016 by just 2,333 votes, and Prabhakara Raja flipped it for DMK in 2021. Virugampakkam covers Chennai's western IT-corridor edge — Vadapalani studios, the Porur reservoir basin and the Mount-Poonamallee Road tech belt.
Top 5 candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SABARINATHAN.R | TVK | 76,092 | 44.37% |
| 2 | PRABHAKARA RAJA.A.M.V | DMK | 49,006 | 28.58% |
| 3 | VIRUGAI V.N.RAVI | AIADMK | 38,767 | 22.61% |
| 4 | SANTHOSH | NTK | 6,056 | 3.53% |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 1,030 | 0.60% |
Postal ballot breakdown
Postal-ballot leader differs from overall winner. DMK PRABHAKARA RAJA.A.M.V led postal ballots (524), but TVK SABARINATHAN.R won the seat overall (76,092).
| # | Candidate | Party | Postal votes | EVM votes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PRABHAKARA RAJA.A.M.V | DMK | 524 | 48,482 | 49,006 |
| 2 | VIRUGAI V.N.RAVI | AIADMK | 430 | 38,337 | 38,767 |
| 3 | SABARINATHAN.R | TVK | 291 | 75,801 | 76,092 |
| 4 | SANTHOSH | NTK | 29 | 6,027 | 6,056 |
| 5 | NOTA | NOTA | 14 | 1,016 | 1,030 |
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 created in the 2008 delimitation; has changed parties at every election since 2011.
About Virugampakkam
Virugampakkam — AC 22 — is a Chennai-west constituency created by the 2008 delimitation, covering Vadapalani, K. K. Nagar fringe, Saligramam, Virugambakkam proper and stretches of the Mount-Poonamallee Road. The seat is anchored by Vadapalani's Murugan temple — one of Chennai's busiest — and by AVM Studios and the cluster of Tamil cinema production houses that gave the area its 'Kollywood' flavour. To the west the constituency runs into the Porur reservoir basin and the IT corridor that has pulled Cognizant, L&T and a wave of mid-tier tech parks into the seat over the last two decades.
Vadapalani temple and Kollywood
Virugampakkam's pulse is Vadapalani — the Andavar Murugan temple draws thousands every Tuesday, and the AVM Studios next door has been making Tamil films since 1947. Loop past Saligramam's restaurant strip, the Porur lake bund and the Mount-Poonamallee tech parks, and end at a film-industry mess hall in Kodambakkam fringe for proper Madras meals.
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