Constituency
229. Kanniyakumari
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-KANNIYAKUMARI
DMK 42.4%won by 2.8%AIADMK 39.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe 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%
Candidates
16 contested · winner DMK- 1AUSTIN. SDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK89,02342.4%
- 2THALAVAI SUNDARAM. NAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK83,11139.6%
- 3MEENA DEV. MBharatiya Janata Party · BJP24,63811.7%
- 4AATHILINGA PERUMAL. DDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK6,9143.3%
- 5BALASUBRAMANIAM. VNTK · NTK1,7320.8%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,5700.7%
- 7HILMAN BRUCE EDWIN. SPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK7120.3%
- 8VETTIVELAYUTHAPERUMAL. PIndependent · IND5260.3%
- 9SANKARARAMAMURTHY. PBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4810.2%
- 10SREETHARAN. RIndependent · IND3310.2%
- 11KUMARESAN. TIndependent · IND2850.1%
- 12MAKESH. NIndependent · IND1650.1%
- 13RAGHUNATHAN. AIndependent · IND1250.1%
- 14JOHNSON. DIndependent · IND1240.1%
- 15RAJESH KANNAN. SGMI · GMI1000.0%
- 16BAVANI. VIndependent · IND870.0%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +12.7%
- DMK share
- 38.3% → 42.4%
- AIADMK share
- 48.2% → 39.6%
- Turnout
- 75.8% → 75.1%