Constituency
229. Kanniyakumari
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2011
TN-KANNIYAKUMARI
AIADMK 48.2%won by 9.9%DMK 38.3%
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 9.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 41.6% to 48.2% of the vote here (+6.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.6% between them, down from 91.6% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,37,865
Turnout
75.8%
Valid votes
1,80,206
Margin
17,804
9.88%
Candidates
16 contested · winner AIADMK- 1PATCHAIMAL.K.TAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK86,90348.2%
- 2SURESH RAJAN.NDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK69,09938.3%
- 3GANDHI.M.RBharatiya Janata Party · BJP20,09411.2%
- 4VETTI VELAYUTHA PERUMAL.PAkhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha · ABHM7340.4%
- 5MANIK PRABHUIndependent · IND5380.3%
- 6RAMANATHAN.K.SIndependent · IND5320.3%
- 7VASU.SIndependent · IND4610.3%
- 8RAJESH.KIndependent · IND4590.3%
- 9SURESH ANANTH.PBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4180.2%
- 10VADIVELPILLAI.SIndependent · IND1980.1%
- 11PATCHAIMAL.YIndependent · IND1670.1%
- 12RAMASWAMY.KIndependent · IND1590.1%
- 13SUNDARANATHAN.YIndependent · IND1540.1%
- 14GANDHI.CIndependent · IND1080.1%
- 15BALAKRISHNAN.SIndependent · IND1020.1%
- 16SATHASIVAN.RIndependent · IND800.0%
Since 2006
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2006 and 2011. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +18.3%
- AIADMK share
- 41.6% → 48.2%
- DMK share
- 50.1% → 38.3%
- Turnout
- — → 75.8%