Elango. R of DMK won the Aravakurichi Assembly constituency (Karur district, Central) in the Tamil Nadu 2026 election, taking 39.11% of 181,078 votes cast. The winning margin over Karthikeyan. P (TVK) was 19,382 votes, or 10.7 percentage points. DMK held the seat it won here in 2021.

DMK
Winning party
39.11%
Winner vote share
19,382
Margin (10.7%)
DMK → DMK
2021 → 2026 winner

Full candidate results, Aravakurichi 2026

#CandidatePartyVotesVote %
1Elango. R WinnerDMK70,827
2Karthikeyan. P 2ndTVK51,445
3Selvakumar. KADMK49,289
4Naren. SNTK5,154
5NotaNOTA637
6Ravi. AgTamizhaga Vaazhvurimai Katchi398
7Suganya. SBahujan Samaj Party359
8Tamilarasan. MIND346
9Natarajan. PIND326
10Asiya BegumAll India Puratchi Thalaivar Makkal Munnettra Kazhagam290
11Sowmiya. RIND284
12Boopathy. SIND284
13Sakthivel. RViduthalai Kalam Katchi211
14Narendrakumar. GIND158
15Sivalingam. TIND122
16Silambarasan. PIND114
17Natchimuthu. VIND92
18Manikandan. TIND86
19Rajasekaran. NIND70
20Arasumani. GIND61
21Kirubananth. SIND61
22Mathiyalagan. PIND58
23Rajendaran. NIND56
24Arivalagan. MIND51
25Kaviyarasu. TIND50
26Kathiresan. MIND49
27Praveen. SIND47
28Mohankumar. KIND47
29Ramalingam. VIND38
30Ragupathi. SIND35
31Murugesan. RIND33

How Aravakurichi compares to 2021

YearWinning candidatePartyVote share
2021ELANGO. RDMK52.72%
2026ELANGO. RDMK39.11%

The same party retained the seat, a swing of -13.61 percentage points in the winning vote share.

This page is part of the full Tamil Nadu 2026 election results set. Explore every seat, party efficiency, regional swing and demographics in the TN 2026 Explorer. For the wider story, see TVK’s debut mapped, the incumbents who lost, and how DMK collapsed.