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229. Kanniyakumari

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Tamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016

TN-KANNIYAKUMARI

DMK 42.4%won by 2.8%AIADMK 39.6%

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 2.8%.

  • DMK vote shareDMK went from 38.3% to 42.4% of the vote here (+4.1%).
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
2,79,651
Turnout
75.1%
Valid votes
2,09,924
Margin
5,912
2.82%

Since 2011

Derived
Winner then
AIADMK
Winner now
DMKflipped
DMKAIADMK swing
+12.7%
DMK share
38.3% 42.4%
AIADMK share
48.2% 39.6%
Turnout
75.8% 75.1%