Rishivandiyam
K. Karthikeyan (DMK) is the MLA for Rishivandiyam.
DMK has won Rishivandiyam at 3 elections in a row (2016, 2021, 2026).
In 2026 K. Karthikeyan won with 36.6% of the vote, 4,862 votes ahead of Ashok Kumar G (TVK).
Rishivandiyam 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
- Kallakurichi
- Area
- about 724 km² (from the boundary)
- Turnout 2021
- 80.2%
- Seats sharing a border
- Chengam · Kallakurichi · Kilpennathur · Sankarapuram · Tirukkoyilur · Tiruvannamalai · Ulundurpettai
Election results
| Election | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DMK K. Karthikeyan | 89,711 · 36.6% | TVK Ashok Kumar G | 84,849 · 34.7% | 4,862 (2.0 pts) |
| 2021 | DMK K. Karthikeyan | 113,912 · 53.0% | ADMK A. Santhosh | 72,184 · 33.6% | 41,728 (19.4 pts) |
| 2016 | DMK Karthikeyan.K | 92,607 · 47.1% | ADMK Dhandapani.K | 72,104 · 36.7% | 20,503 (10.4 pts) |
| 2011 | DMDK Vijayakanth | 91,164 · 53.2% | INC S. Sivaraj | 60,369 · 35.2% | 30,795 (18.0 pts) |
officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.
Attention in the news
Kallakurichi district: mentions per week
Busiest week: 7 September (28 mentions).
articlesvideosweek with a mention of Rishivandiyampaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover
Rishivandiyam itself is named in 3 of the district's 223 mentions (1.3%). 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
Kallakurichi 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 Kallakurichi district
Kallakurichi| Seat | 2026 winner | Lead (points) | Mentions, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tirukkoyilur | ADMK | 0.1 | 0 |
| Ulundurpettai | DMK | 0.8 | 10 |
| Rishivandiyam | DMK | 2.0 | 0 |
| Sankarapuram | ADMK | 1.5 | 2 |
| Kallakurichi | TVK | 0.3 | 42† |
† Kallakurichi 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 Kallakurichi district: no recent headline names Rishivandiyam
- அதிகாரிகளை கண்டித்து அதிமுக எம்எல்ஏ தர்ணா: கள்ளக்குறிச்சி கலெக்டர் அலுவலகத்தில் பரபரப்புTamil originalDinakaran
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.