The Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) won 14 of the 16 Assembly constituencies in Chennai district in the 2026 election. The DMK held the other two, Harbour and Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni. The official results are published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette of 6 May 2026, in which returning officers declared each winner.
Votes were counted on 4 May. Statewide, the TVK won 108 of the 234 seats and formed the government with Congress support and outside backing from the VCK, the CPI, the CPI(M) and the IUML. Vote counts and margins for each seat are on the Election Commission of India’s results site, which says its figures were entered by returning officers and that the final data appear in Form-20.
Constituency-wise results
Winners below are as declared in the gazette. Margins and runners-up are from the Election Commission’s constituency pages, linked in the margin column, except Kolathur, which is from a news report of the count. Where we could not open the Commission’s page this week, the cell is left blank; check results.eci.gov.in for those seats.
| No. | Constituency | Winner (party) | Margin | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar | N. Marie Wilson (TVK) | – | – |
| 12 | Perambur | C. Joseph Vijay (TVK) | – | – |
| 13 | Kolathur | V.S. Babu (TVK) | 8,795 | M.K. Stalin (DMK) |
| 14 | Villivakkam | Aadhav Arjuna (TVK) | – | – |
| 15 | Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar (SC) | M.R. Pallavi (TVK) | 22,333 | K.S. Ravichandran (DMK) |
| 16 | Egmore (SC) | Rajmohan (TVK) | 10,804 | Tamilan Prasanna (DMK) |
| 17 | Royapuram | K.V. Vijay Damu (TVK) | – | – |
| 18 | Harbour | P.K. Sekarbabu (DMK) | – | – |
| 19 | Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni | Udhayanidhi Stalin (DMK) | – | – |
| 20 | Thousand Lights | J.C.D. Prabhakar (TVK) | 15,141 | Ezhilan Naganathan (DMK) |
| 21 | Anna Nagar | V.K. Ramkumar (TVK) | 21,363 | N. Chitrarasu (DMK) |
| 22 | Virugambakkam | R. Sabarinathan (TVK) | 27,086 | A.M.V. Prabhakara Raja (DMK) |
| 23 | Saidapet | M. Arul Prakasam (TVK) | 28,514 | Ma. Subramanian (DMK) |
| 24 | Thiyagarayanagar | N. Anand (TVK) | 13,027 | B. Sathyanarayanan (AIADMK) |
| 25 | Mylapore | P. Venkataramanan (TVK) | 28,972 | Dha. Velu (DMK) |
| 26 | Velachery | R. Kumar (TVK) | 33,305 | M.K. Ashok (AIADMK) |
What stood out
- Kolathur: M.K. Stalin, then Chief Minister, lost to V.S. Babu of the TVK. Babu polled 82,997 votes to Stalin’s 74,202, a margin of 8,795, The South First reported.
- The DMK’s two seats: P.K. Sekarbabu in Harbour and Udhayanidhi Stalin in Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni held on. All India Radio News reported that Udhayanidhi Stalin is now Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly.
- Thousand Lights: the winner, J.C.D. Prabhakar, was elected Speaker of the Assembly on 12 May. The AIADMK’s candidate came third there with 23,320 votes, the Commission’s page shows.
- Velachery gave the widest margin among the seats we checked: R. Kumar of the TVK won by 33,305 votes over the AIADMK’s M.K. Ashok.
- Saidapet: the TVK’s M. Arul Prakasam defeated the DMK’s Ma. Subramanian, the former Health Minister, by 28,514 votes, 81,205 to 52,691.
- The AIADMK finished second in Thiyagarayanagar and Velachery. In the other seats we checked, the main contest was between the TVK and the DMK.
Chennai MLAs in the cabinet
Six of the 14 TVK MLAs from the district are ministers: Vijay (Chief Minister), N. Marie Wilson (Finance), Aadhav Arjuna (Public Works, Highways and Sports), N. Anand (Rural Development), P. Venkataramanan (Food and Civil Supplies) and Rajmohan (School Education). Vijay, who also won a seat in Tiruchirappalli, gave that seat up and kept Perambur.
Seats on the city’s edges
Many people with a Chennai address vote outside Chennai district. Constituencies such as Madhavaram, Thiruvottiyur, Ambattur, Maduravoyal, Shozhinganallur, Alandur, Pallavaram and Tambaram belong to neighbouring districts. The TVK won all of these, according to the same gazette. In Ambattur, the TVK’s G. Balamurugan won by 58,781 votes over the DMK’s A.P. Poornima, the Commission’s page shows. Your voter ID card or the electoral roll shows which constituency you belong to.
How to find and contact your MLA
- Find your constituency by searching your name on the Election Commission’s voter portal, voters.eci.gov.in, or check your EPIC card.
- Match it to the table above.
- Contact details for MLAs are listed on the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly website, assembly.tn.gov.in.
Your MLA can raise local issues in the Assembly through questions and debates. They also recommend works under the constituency development fund and take up complaints with departments. For civic issues such as roads, drains and garbage, your ward councillor in the Greater Chennai Corporation is often quicker to reach.
Quick answers
How many seats are there in Chennai district?
Sixteen, numbered 11 to 26, from Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar to Velachery.
Who won Kolathur in 2026?
V.S. Babu of the TVK, who defeated M.K. Stalin of the DMK by 8,795 votes.
Which Chennai seats did the DMK win?
Harbour (P.K. Sekarbabu) and Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni (Udhayanidhi Stalin).
When were the results declared?
Counting was on 4 May 2026, and the results were notified in the state gazette on 6 May.
Information checked against official sources on 18 October 2026. Fees, dates and rules can change; confirm on the linked official pages before acting.
Sources
- Tamil Nadu Government Gazette Extraordinary No. 231, declaration of results, General Elections 2026 (Public (Elections) Department, Government of Tamil Nadu)
- Assembly constituency results, May 2026: Saidapet (Election Commission of India)
- Assembly constituency results, May 2026: Velachery (Election Commission of India)
- Assembly constituency results, May 2026: Mylapore (Election Commission of India)
- Assembly constituency results, May 2026: Thiyagarayanagar (Election Commission of India)
- Assembly constituency results, May 2026: Thousand Lights (Election Commission of India)
- Assembly constituency results, May 2026: Anna Nagar (Election Commission of India)
- Assembly constituency results, May 2026: Virugampakkam (Election Commission of India)
- Assembly constituency results, May 2026: Thiru-Vi-Ka-Nagar (Election Commission of India)
- Assembly constituency results, May 2026: Egmore (Election Commission of India)
- Assembly constituency results, May 2026: Ambattur (Election Commission of India)
- MK Stalin loses Kolathur to TVK’s VS Babu (The South First, May 2026)
- TVK legislator JCD Prabhakar elected as Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker (All India Radio News)
