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Harbour

Assembly constituency 18 · General seat · Chennai district

P. K. Sekar Babu (DMK) is the MLA for Harbour.

DMK has won Harbour at 3 elections in a row (2016, 2021, 2026).

In 2026 P. K. Sekar Babu won with 45.4% of the vote, 11,750 votes ahead of Sinora PS Ashok (TVK).

Harbour is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 43 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.

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Map of Harbour constituency, Chennai districtHarbour drawn on its boundary with the seats around it. Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni, Royapuram
Boundaries: DataMeet (CC BY 2.5 India), approximate.
Lok Sabha seat
Chennai Central
Area
about 11 km² (from the boundary)
Turnout 2021
57.8%
Seats sharing a border
Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni · Royapuram

Election results

ElectionWinnerVotesRunner-upVotesMargin
2026DMK P. K. Sekar Babu45,254 · 45.4%TVK Sinora PS Ashok33,504 · 33.6%11,750 (11.8 pts)
2021DMK P. K. Sekar Babu59,317 · 58.4%BJP Vinoj P. Selvam32,043 · 31.5%27,274 (26.8 pts)
2016DMK P. K. Sekar Babu42,071 · 40.4%ADMK Sreenivasan K S37,235 · 35.7%4,836 (4.6 pts)
2011ADMK Pala. Karuppiah53,920 · 55.9%DMK Altaf Hussain33,603 · 34.8%20,317 (21.1 pts)
Winner's and runner-up's share of the vote at each election

officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.

Attention in the news

Harbour: mentions per week

Busiest week: 3 August (9 mentions).

articlesvideospaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover

43 mentions of Harbour since 1 June 2026 from 11 outlets.

observedCounted weekly in our archive, which starts 1 June 2026; articles are counted from 8 June 2026.

Issues and parties in the news

Chennai district, last 30 days: topics named in the same items

Development & Infrastructure370
Law & Order295
Education112
Health & Hospitals78
Water & Cauvery64
Elections & Bypolls43

Parties: named in the news, and votes at the polls

Chennai news, 30 daysHarbour vote, 2026
DMK10545.4%
TVK24933.6%
INC64did not stand
BJP43did not stand

Attention follows the week's news; votes follow the seat.

observedofficialTopics and parties: counted in our archive over the last 30 days. Votes: the 2026 election record.

Seats in Chennai district

Chennai
Seat2026 winnerLead (points)Mentions, 30 days
MaduravoyalTVK20.910
AmbatturTVK22.634
MadhavaramTVK26.255
ThiruvottiyurTVK25.918
Dr. Radhakrishnan NagarTVK27.41
PeramburTVK26.3142
KolathurTVK4.872
VillivakkamTVK12.21
Thiru-Vi-Ka-NagarTVK15.51
EgmoreTVK9.027
RoyapuramTVK11.26
HarbourDMK11.85
Chepauk-ThiruvallikeniDMK5.16
Thousand LightsTVK11.52
Anna NagarTVK13.10
VirugambakkamTVK15.746
SaidapetTVK17.84
ThiyagarayanagarTVK9.70
MylaporeTVK19.212
VelacheryTVK18.015
SholinganallurTVK21.618
AlandurTVK11.31

officialobservedWinners and leads: election records. Mentions: counted in our archive, 30 days.

Latest

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Sources and method

  • Election results, 2026: Election Commission of India (results.eci.gov.in), retrieved 2026-09-28.
  • Election results, 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), citing the Election Commission of India, retrieved 2026-10-09. Check applied: the lead equals winner minus runner-up votes and the printed shares agree (702 of 702 seat results passed, 5 corrected from the source's printed totals).
  • Vacancies and by-elections: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), retrieved 2026-10-09.
  • Boundary: DataMeet (CC BY 2.5 India). Approximate; drawn for orientation, not an official map.
  • Mentions are counted in our archive: articles and videos that name the place in the headline (a seat also counts for its district), by the same rules as the Trends pages. The archive starts 1 June 2026; articles are counted from 8 June 2026; earlier months are not in our store.
  • official = the Election Commission's own record · compiled = a secondary source, checked against its own totals · observed = counted in our sources · computed = derived from those.

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