Constituency
229. Nagercoil
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1991
TN-NAGERCOIL
INC 56.8%won by 30.3%DMK 26.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.6% to 30.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.3% of the vote between them, up from 62.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
99,205
Margin
30,052
30.29%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1MOSES M.Indian National Congress · INC56,36356.8%
- 2RETNARAJ S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK26,31126.5%
- 3KUMARAVEL K.A.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,83316.0%
- 4RAJA K.S.Independent · IND1350.1%
- 5ISAIS MISHA J.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK1330.1%
- 6DEVARAJAN P.TMM · TMM990.1%
- 7ARPUTHURAJ K.Independent · IND860.1%
- 8SANKARANARAYANAN S.Independent · IND800.1%
- 9NAGOOR MEERAN PEER MOHAMAD U.Independent · IND690.1%
- 10STEWART GNANADHASIndependent · IND590.1%
- 11MOHAN N.Independent · IND370.0%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–DMK swing
- +23.7%
- INC share
- 34.5% → 56.8%
- DMK share
- 27.8% → 26.5%
- Turnout
- — → —