R Jayaramakrishnan of DMK won the Madathukulam Assembly constituency (Tiruppur district, Kongu (West)) in the Tamil Nadu 2026 election, taking 37.43% of 188,249 votes cast. The winning margin over C Shanmugavelu (AMMK) was 15,968 votes, or 8.48 percentage points. The seat flipped from ADMK to DMK since 2021.

DMK
Winning party
37.43%
Winner vote share
15,968
Margin (8.48%)
ADMK → DMK
2021 → 2026 winner

Full candidate results, Madathukulam 2026

#CandidatePartyVotesVote %
1R Jayaramakrishnan WinnerDMK70,458
2C Shanmugavelu 2ndAMMK54,490
3R ThirumalaiTVK52,684
4M RadhamaniNTK6,578
5NotaNOTA911
6K Vadivazhagan BalajiIND664
7Ak SenthilkumarPuthiya Tamilagam621
8Sp MahendranIND464
9M ShanugavelIND397
10S ShanmugavelIND301
11P ThangarajIND263
12M Ahamed AliIND206
13A ShanmugavelIND120
14K ShanmugavelIND92

How Madathukulam compares to 2021

YearWinning candidatePartyVote share
2021C MAHENDRANADMK46.35%
2026R JAYARAMAKRISHNANDMK37.43%

The seat changed hands, a swing of -8.92 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.