Constituency
228. Kanniyakumari
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-KANNIYAKUMARI
AIADMK 51.3%won by 8.8%DMK 42.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 8.8%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 21.3% to 51.3% of the vote here (+30.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.8% of the vote between them, up from 65.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,08,443
Margin
9,536
8.79%
Candidates
9 contested · winner AIADMK- 1THALAVAISUNDARAM.NAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK55,65051.3%
- 2SURESHRAJAN.NDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK46,11442.5%
- 3LAKSHMANAN.EMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK4,9914.6%
- 4JAYAKUMAR.RIndependent · IND7230.7%
- 5RAJASEKARAN.SIndependent · IND3310.3%
- 6AYYASAMYPANDIAN.LIndependent · IND3100.3%
- 7NAGURMERAN PEER MUHAMAD.UIndependent · IND1380.1%
- 8KUMARISWAMIIndependent · IND1040.1%
- 9THANULINGAM.VIndependent · IND820.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +31.1%
- AIADMK share
- 21.3% → 51.3%
- DMK share
- 43.6% → 42.5%
- Turnout
- — → —