Constituency
229. Nagercoil
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-NAGERCOIL
TMCM 48.4%won by 27.0%BJP 21.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to TMCM (TMCM), which now leads by 27.0%.
- TMCM vote shareTMCM went from 0.0% to 48.4% of the vote here (+48.4%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.8% between them, down from 83.3% — 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
1,05,560
Margin
28,478
26.98%
Candidates
20 contested · winner TMCM- 1MOSES, M.TMCM · TMCM51,08648.4%
- 2VELPANDIAN, S.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP22,60821.4%
- 3SELUVAI ANTONY, V.Indian National Congress · INC15,36814.6%
- 4RETNARAJ, S.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK11,04610.5%
- 5RATHAKRISHNAN, R.AIICT · AIICT4,1533.9%
- 6SURESH, S.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK5700.5%
- 7SUYAMBULINGAM, V.Independent · IND1300.1%
- 8SUBBIAN, A.Independent · IND910.1%
- 9JEREEN CHRISTOPHER, E.G.Independent · IND890.1%
- 10SELVAKUMAR, R.Independent · IND680.1%
- 11LOHANATHAN, A.Independent · IND670.1%
- 12PADMANABHA PILLAI, M.Independent · IND450.0%
- 13ALANGARAM, M.Independent · IND430.0%
- 14PONNUSWAMY, E.Independent · IND390.0%
- 15STEWART GNANADHASIndependent · IND330.0%
- 16SELVAMONY, S.Independent · IND320.0%
- 17CHANDRASEKHAR, M.Independent · IND310.0%
- 18NAGOOR MEERAN MOHAMED, U.Independent · IND290.0%
- 19THURAI, C.Independent · IND290.0%
- 20JACKSON SUNDAR SINGH, P.Independent · IND30.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- TMCMflipped
- TMCM–BJP swing
- +42.9%
- TMCM share
- 0.0% → 48.4%
- BJP share
- 16.0% → 21.4%
- Turnout
- — → —