Constituency
230. Nagercoil
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-NAGERCOIL
DMK 38.9%won by 12.1%BJP 26.8%
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 12.1%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 35.4% to 38.9% of the vote here (+3.4%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.6% between them, down from 75.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.4% to 65.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,63,633
Turnout
65.7%
Valid votes
1,73,324
Margin
20,956
12.09%
Candidates
20 contested · winner DMK- 1SURESH RAJAN NDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK67,36938.9%
- 2GANDHI M.RBharatiya Janata Party · BJP46,41326.8%
- 3NANJIL MURUGESAN. AAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK45,82426.4%
- 4CHRISTIN RANI SMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK5,8033.3%
- 5DHANAM P.MNTK · NTK1,8551.1%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,8021.0%
- 7DR. JACKSON M.SDCLF · DCLF1,4110.8%
- 8RAJESH S.MIndependent · IND6490.4%
- 9GEORGE MPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK5270.3%
- 10ANDRUZ ABahujan Samaj Party · BSP2160.1%
- 11KANNAN MCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2160.1%
- 12MURUGESAN TIndependent · IND2020.1%
- 13SATHESH SIndependent · IND1740.1%
- 14KATHIRESAN RGMI · GMI1540.1%
- 15SUBIFIP · FIP1470.1%
- 16ESAKKIMUTHUIndependent · IND1310.1%
- 17SURESH STAVK · TAVK1300.1%
- 18ANITHA SWEETY GIndependent · IND1250.1%
- 19GANDHI LIndependent · IND1090.1%
- 20NAGOOR MEERAN PEER MOHAMED. UIndependent · IND670.0%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–BJP swing
- −0.5%
- DMK share
- 35.4% → 38.9%
- BJP share
- 22.9% → 26.8%
- Turnout
- 70.1% → 65.7%