Kilvelur
T. Latha (CPI(M)) is the MLA for Kilvelur.
CPI(M) has won Kilvelur at 2 elections in a row (2021, 2026).
In 2026 T. Latha won with 37.0% of the vote, 2,278 votes ahead of P. Senthil Pandian (TVK).
Kilvelur is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 0 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.
- Lok Sabha seat
- Nagapattinam
- Area
- about 446 km² (from the boundary)
- Turnout 2021
- 80.0%
- Seats sharing a border
- Nagapattinam · Thiruthuraipoondi · Thiruvarur · Vedaranyam
Election results
| Election | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CPI(M) T. Latha | 56,108 · 37.0% | TVK P. Senthil Pandian | 53,830 · 35.5% | 2,278 (1.5 pts) |
| 2021 | CPI(M) Nagai Maali (A) P. Mahalingam | 67,988 · 47.5% | PMK Vadivel Ravanan | 51,003 · 35.7% | 16,985 (11.9 pts) |
| 2016 | DMK Mathivanan.U | 61,999 · 45.0% | ADMK Meena.N | 51,829 · 37.6% | 10,170 (7.4 pts) |
| 2011 | CPI(M) P. Mahalingam | 59,402 · 49.0% | DMK U. Mathivanan | 58,678 · 48.4% | 724 (0.6 pts) |
officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.
Attention in the news
Nagapattinam district: mentions per week
Busiest week: 19 October (28 mentions).
articlesvideospaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover
Kilvelur itself is named in 0 of the district's 149 mentions (0.0%). The seat is too small to chart alone, so this is the district's picture.
observedCounted weekly in our archive, which starts 1 June 2026; articles are counted from 8 June 2026.
Issues and parties in the news
Nagapattinam district, last 30 days: topics named in the same items
Parties: named in the news, and votes at the polls
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 Nagapattinam district
Nagapattinam| Seat | 2026 winner | Lead (points) | Mentions, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nagapattinam | DMK | 6.5 | 40† |
| Kilvelur | CPI(M) | 1.5 | 0 |
| Vedaranyam | ADMK | 4.5 | 3 |
† Nagapattinam is also the district's name: its count includes news about the whole district.
officialobservedWinners and leads: election records. Mentions: counted in our archive, 30 days.
Latest
Latest from Nagapattinam district: no recent headline names Kilvelur
- நாகை போதைப்பொருள் வழக்கில் மவுனம் ஏன்?Tamil originalNews18 Tamil
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.