Uthiramerur
J. Munirathinam (TVK) is the MLA for Uthiramerur.
TVK took the seat from DMK in 2026.
In 2026 J. Munirathinam won with 37.3% of the vote, 14,223 votes ahead of K. Sundar (DMK).
Uthiramerur is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 12 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.
- Lok Sabha seat
- Kancheepuram
- Area
- about 659 km² (from the boundary)
- Turnout 2021
- 80.8%
- Seats sharing a border
- Chengalpattu · Cheyyar · Kancheepuram · Madurantakam · Sriperumbudur · Vandavasi
Election results
| Election | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | TVK J. Munirathinam | 84,917 · 37.3% | DMK K. Sundar | 70,694 · 31.0% | 14,223 (6.2 pts) |
| 2021 | DMK K. Sundar | 93,427 · 44.4% | ADMK V.Somasundaram | 91,805 · 43.6% | 1,622 (0.8 pts) |
| 2016 | DMK K. Sundar | 85,513 · 43.0% | ADMK Ganesan.P | 73,357 · 36.9% | 12,156 (6.1 pts) |
| 2011 | ADMK P. Ganesan | 86,912 · 51.8% | DMK Ponkumar | 73,146 · 43.5% | 13,766 (8.2 pts) |
officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.
Attention in the news
Kancheepuram district: mentions per week
Busiest week: 1 June (36 mentions).
articlesvideosweek with a mention of Uthiramerurpaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover
Uthiramerur itself is named in 12 of the district's 365 mentions (3.3%). 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
Kancheepuram 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 Kancheepuram district
Kancheepuram| Seat | 2026 winner | Lead (points) | Mentions, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sriperumbudur | TVK | 16.4 | 27 |
| Uthiramerur | TVK | 6.2 | 0 |
| Kancheepuram | TVK | 6.3 | 25† |
† Kancheepuram 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 Kancheepuram district: no recent headline names Uthiramerur
- சென்னை, திருவள்ளூர், செங்கல்பட்டு, காஞ்சிபுரம் மாவட்டங்களில் பள்ளிகளுக்கு இன்று(அக்.21) விடுமுறைDinamani
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.