Royapuram
K. V. Vijay Damu (TVK) is the MLA for Royapuram.
TVK took the seat from DMK in 2026.
In 2026 K. V. Vijay Damu won with 46.4% of the vote, 14,249 votes ahead of Subair Khan (DMK).
Royapuram is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 10 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.
- Lok Sabha seat
- Chennai North
- Area
- about 6 km² (from the boundary)
- Turnout 2021
- 62.9%
- Seats sharing a border
- Harbour · Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar
Election results
| Election | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | TVK K. V. Vijay Damu | 59,091 · 46.4% | DMK Subair Khan | 44,842 · 35.2% | 14,249 (11.2 pts) |
| 2021 | DMK Idream R. Murthy | 64,424 · 53.2% | ADMK D. Jayakumar | 36,645 · 30.2% | 27,779 (22.9 pts) |
| 2016 | ADMK D. Jayakumar | 55,205 · 45.2% | INC Manohar R | 47,174 · 38.6% | 8,031 (6.6 pts) |
| 2011 | ADMK D. Jayakumar | 65,099 · 57.9% | INC R. Manohar | 43,727 · 38.9% | 21,372 (19.0 pts) |
officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.
Attention in the news
Chennai district: mentions per week
Busiest week: 5 October (1,382 mentions).
articlesvideosweek with a mention of Royapurampaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover
Royapuram itself is named in 10 of the district's 9,697 mentions (0.1%). 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
Chennai 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 Chennai district
Chennai| Seat | 2026 winner | Lead (points) | Mentions, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maduravoyal | TVK | 20.9 | 10 |
| Ambattur | TVK | 22.6 | 34 |
| Madhavaram | TVK | 26.2 | 55 |
| Thiruvottiyur | TVK | 25.9 | 18 |
| Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar | TVK | 27.4 | 1 |
| Perambur | TVK | 26.3 | 142 |
| Kolathur | TVK | 4.8 | 72 |
| Villivakkam | TVK | 12.2 | 1 |
| Thiru-Vi-Ka-Nagar | TVK | 15.5 | 1 |
| Egmore | TVK | 9.0 | 27 |
| Royapuram | TVK | 11.2 | 6 |
| Harbour | DMK | 11.8 | 5 |
| Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni | DMK | 5.1 | 6 |
| Thousand Lights | TVK | 11.5 | 2 |
| Anna Nagar | TVK | 13.1 | 0 |
| Virugambakkam | TVK | 15.7 | 46 |
| Saidapet | TVK | 17.8 | 4 |
| Thiyagarayanagar | TVK | 9.7 | 0 |
| Mylapore | TVK | 19.2 | 12 |
| Velachery | TVK | 18.0 | 15 |
| Sholinganallur | TVK | 21.6 | 18 |
| Alandur | TVK | 11.3 | 1 |
officialobservedWinners and leads: election records. Mentions: counted in our archive, 30 days.
Latest
Headlines that name Royapuram
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.