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Constituency

228. Kanniyakumari

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996

TN-KANNIYAKUMARI

DMK 43.6%won by 22.3%AIADMK 21.3%

What changed here

Derived

The 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%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
AIADMK
Winner now
DMKflipped
DMKAIADMK swing
+60.4%
DMK share
22.0% 43.6%
AIADMK share
60.1% 21.3%
Turnout