Prabhakar.J.C.D of TVK won the Thousand Lights Assembly constituency (Chennai district, Chennai & Suburbs) in the Tamil Nadu 2026 election, taking 44.73% of 131,824 votes cast. The winning margin over Ezhilan Naganathan (DMK) was 15,141 votes, or 11.49 percentage points. The seat flipped from DMK to TVK since 2021.

TVK
Winning party
44.73%
Winner vote share
15,141
Margin (11.49%)
DMK → TVK
2021 → 2026 winner

Full candidate results, Thousand Lights 2026

#CandidatePartyVotesVote %
1Prabhakar.J.C.D WinnerTVK58,965
2Ezhilan Naganathan 2ndDMK43,824
3Valarmathi.BADMK23,320
4Kalanchiyam.MuNTK3,717
5NotaNOTA815
6Valarmathi.EIND245
7Mohamed Ghouse.HTamizhaga Vaazhvurimai Katchi203
8Sathya.AIND165
9Valarmathy.DIND102
10Vijay.DIND83
11Prabhakaran.BIND64
12Prabhakaran.VIND63
13Karthikeyan.SIND61
14Sundara Raju.AIND48
15Shankar.VIND42
16Prabhakaran.TIND36
17Muniyan.EIND28
18Dhanasekaran.VIND23
19Pachaiyappan.EIND20

How Thousand Lights compares to 2021

YearWinning candidatePartyVote share
2021EZHILAN NDMK52.87%
2026PRABHAKAR.J.C.DTVK44.73%

The seat changed hands, a swing of -8.14 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.