Sri Lanka, May 4 -- Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Monday (May 4, 2026) was defeated in his Kolathur Assembly constituency, a seat he had represented thrice since 2011. He is the fourth sitting Chief Minister in Tamil Nadu to lose an Assembly election.

Stalin has lost to V.S. Babu, the TVK candidate. Babu was once a close associate of the DMK president. He had served as the North Chennai district secretary of the DMK and was elected to the Assembly in 2006 from the Purasawalkam constituency.

Babu's fortunes declined after the rise of P.K. Sekarbabu, a former AIADMK leader, in the DMK ranks. After being removed from the post of party district secretary, Babu joined the AIADMK. He joined the TVK just before the 2026 elections an...