Constituency
228. Kanniyakumari
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-KANNIYAKUMARI
DMK 43.6%won by 22.3%AIADMK 21.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 22.3%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 22.0% to 43.6% of the vote here (+21.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.0% between them, down from 82.2% — the field split more ways.
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
97,985
Margin
21,863
22.31%
Candidates
17 contested · winner DMK- 1N. SURESH RAJANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK42,75543.6%
- 2S. THANU PILLAIAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK20,89221.3%
- 3V.S. RAJANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,19713.5%
- 4K. BAUL SUNDARIndependent · IND12,42112.7%
- 5S. RAMIAH PILLAIMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK6,9427.1%
- 6S.P. NADARAJAIndependent · IND3800.4%
- 7R. SIVATHANU PILLAIIndependent · IND3360.3%
- 8R. RAJKUMARJanahitha Paksha · JP2480.3%
- 9A. ABRAHAM ROYANPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK2340.2%
- 10A. CHELLAPPANIndependent · IND1440.1%
- 11KAVIKONE KANNITHASAN @ SUBRAMONIAMIndependent · IND1290.1%
- 12S. MURUGANIndependent · IND1120.1%
- 13SANKARANARAYANA PILLAIIndependent · IND760.1%
- 14A. ASAI THAMBIIndependent · IND440.0%
- 15D. MANOHAR BRIGHTIndependent · IND330.0%
- 16P.V. NARAYANANIndependent · IND320.0%
- 17P. VETTIVELIndependent · IND100.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +60.4%
- DMK share
- 22.0% → 43.6%
- AIADMK share
- 60.1% → 21.3%
- Turnout
- — → —