Kunnam
S. S. Sivasankar (DMK) is the MLA for Kunnam.
DMK has won Kunnam at 2 elections in a row (2021, 2026).
In 2026 S. S. Sivasankar won with 37.8% of the vote, 15,557 votes ahead of A. Saranya (ADMK).
Kunnam is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 3 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.
- Lok Sabha seat
- Chidambaram
- Area
- about 1,000 km² (from the boundary)
- Turnout 2021
- 80.4%
- Seats sharing a border
- Ariyalur · Jayankondam · Lalgudi · Perambalur · Tittakudi
Election results
| Election | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DMK S. S. Sivasankar | 87,237 · 37.8% | ADMK A. Saranya | 71,680 · 31.1% | 15,557 (6.8 pts) |
| 2021 | DMK S. S. Sivasankar | 103,922 · 47.3% | ADMK R. T. Ramachandran | 97,593 · 44.4% | 6,329 (2.9 pts) |
| 2016 | ADMK Ramachandran.R.T | 78,218 · 38.1% | DMK Durairaj.T | 59,422 · 29.0% | 18,796 (9.2 pts) |
| 2011 | DMK S. S. Sivasankar | 81,723 · 46.9% | DMDK Durai Kamaraj | 58,766 · 33.7% | 22,957 (13.2 pts) |
officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.
Attention in the news
Perambalur district: mentions per week
Busiest week: 21 September (16 mentions).
articlesvideosweek with a mention of Kunnampaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover
Kunnam itself is named in 3 of the district's 111 mentions (2.7%). 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
Perambalur district, last 30 days: topics named in the same items
observedTopics and parties: counted in our archive over the last 30 days.
Seats in Perambalur district
Perambalur| Seat | 2026 winner | Lead (points) | Mentions, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perambalur | TVK | 5.7 | 26† |
| Kunnam | DMK | 6.8 | 1 |
† Perambalur 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
From Perambalur district, last 30 days: no headline in that time names Kunnam
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.