Constituency
224. Tirunelveli
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2021
TN-TIRUNELVELI
BJP 46.7%won by 11.7%DMK 35.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 11.7%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 3.2% to 46.7% of the vote here (+43.5%).
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.6% to 66.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,95,302
Turnout
66.9%
Valid votes
1,97,587
Margin
23,107
11.69%
Candidates
15 contested · winner BJP- 1Nainar NagenthranBharatiya Janata Party · BJP92,28246.7%
- 2Lakshmanan,A.L.S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK69,17535.0%
- 3Sathya,B.NTK · NTK19,1629.7%
- 4Mahesh Kannan,A.P.Anaithu Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam · AMMK8,9114.5%
- 5None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA2,0911.1%
- 6Sivakumar,M.Independent · IND1,4120.7%
- 7Srithar RajanIndependent · IND1,3420.7%
- 8KalanithyBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6540.3%
- 9Sankarasubramanian,M.Independent · IND5820.3%
- 10Esakkimuthu,P.Independent · IND4370.2%
- 11Sundarraj,M.Cpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL4150.2%
- 12Murugan,V.Independent · IND3420.2%
- 13Raghavan,C.M.Independent · IND3190.2%
- 14Sankar @ SankaranarayananIndependent · IND2640.1%
- 15Murugan,R.Independent · IND1990.1%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–DMK swing
- +51.6%
- BJP share
- 3.2% → 46.7%
- DMK share
- 43.1% → 35.0%
- Turnout
- 70.5% → 66.9%