VCKViduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi
State-level report card across all 8 contests VCK fielded in the Tamil Nadu 2026 Assembly Election — seats, margins, districts, and head-to-head against every rival party.
- Efficient micro-presence — 2 wins from 8 contested (25% strike rate), no forfeited deposits.
- Alliance-shaped, not standalone — average winning margin of +4% mirrors coalition transfer rather than independent pull.
- Stayed in every fight — did not finish outside the top three in any seat fielded.
Drafted 2026-05-13 · refreshed when the underlying metrics change.
Held a foothold — 2 of 8 contested, 1.09% of statewide vote, mostly in pockets where the party concentrates resources.
Margin distribution
margin as % of valid votes in AC · 8 contestsState pulse
extremes across every contested ACDistrict scorecard
present in 6 of 38 districts| District | W / C | Share | Best seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cuddalore | 1 / 2 | 38.4% | KATTUMANNARKOIL |
| Villupuram | 1 / 1 | 32.6% | TINDIVANAM |
| Theni | 0 / 1 | 31.4% | PERIYAKULAM |
| Kallakurichi | 0 / 1 | 31.1% | KALLAKURICHI |
| Chengalpattu | 0 / 2 | 28.6% | CHEYYUR |
| District | W / C | Share | Best seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ranipet | 0 / 1 | 27.8% | ARAKKONAM |
| Chengalpattu | 0 / 2 | 28.6% | THIRUPORUR |
| Kallakurichi | 0 / 1 | 31.1% | KALLAKURICHI |
| Theni | 0 / 1 | 31.4% | PERIYAKULAM |
| Villupuram | 1 / 1 | 32.6% | TINDIVANAM |
Head-to-head
who they fought across the stateBooth-level extremes
1,601 booths analysed →VCK contested 8 of 234 seats in TN 2026 inside the SPA alliance — the state-level reflection of the INC-led UPA / INDIA bloc. Across 1,601 polling stations with 200+ valid votes, four numbers stand out.
382 of 476 voters chose VCK at Booth 90 in Nellikuppam — the party’s tightest lock-in anywhere. Panruti has been a long-running VCK base; the booth-scale dominance shows the community floor still delivers at full depth inside the SPA seat-share.
VCK held this booth by a single vote with 35.5% share. Thiruporur produced two of VCK’s tightest results in the state — one win and one loss — inside the same constituency, showing how knife-edge the small VCK footprint became at booth level.
VCK averages 32.1% across Panruti, but at Booth 90 (Nellikuppam) it took 80.3% — a 48-point local jump. Hot pockets at this volume (31 booths above the 35-point delta) cluster tightly inside Panruti and Cuddalore, the traditional VCK base belt.
VCK averaged 52.0% vote share across the 1,601 booths it contested inside the SPA — the highest share-in-contested figure among the SPA partners. The SPA transfer landed cleanly inside VCK’s 8 chosen seats, with zero wipeouts and 31 hot pockets where the alliance vote consolidated behind VCK at booth scale.
≥200 valid votes per booth · ECI Form 20
Every VCK candidate (8)
filter · sort columns · click any row to drill into the AC| AC | Candidate | Votes | Margin ▼ | Status | Age | Net worth | Crim | Drill down |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AC 159 KATTUMANNARKOIL Cuddalore |  L.E. JOTHIMANI rank #1 | 85,179 | +17.6%+33,063 | won | 71 | Rs 82.06 L | 1 | |
| AC 72 TINDIVANAM Villupuram |  VANNI ARASU rank #1 | 63,833 | +0.4%+734 | won | 55 | Rs 93.78 L | 3 | |
| AC 80 KALLAKURICHI Kallakurichi |  MALATHI K rank #3 | 77,666 | -1.4%3,466 | lost | 46 | Rs 5.84 Cr | 0 | |
| AC 34 CHEYYUR Chengalpattu |  SINTHANAI SELVAN rank #3 | 57,909 | -3.1%5,900 | lost | 61 | Rs 1.76 Cr | 0 | |
| AC 154 PANRUTI Cuddalore |  ABDUR RAHMAN. A.R rank #2 | 67,735 | -5.1%10,663 | lost | 62 | Rs 15.06 Cr | 0 | |
| AC 199 PERIYAKULAM Theni |  SAKTHIVEL P. rank #2 | 66,335 | -9.2%19,321 | lost | 63 | Rs 31.67 L | 2 | |
| AC 38 ARAKKONAM Ranipet |  EZHIL CAROLINE rank #2 | 50,655 | -12.7%23,121 | lost | 56 | Rs 13.32 Cr | 0 | |
| AC 33 THIRUPORUR Chengalpattu |  R. PANNEERDOSS rank #2 | 70,744 | -15.0%39,351 | lost | 57 | Rs 17.08 Cr | 0 |