Constituency
232. Padmanabhapuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2021
TN-PADMANABHAPURAM
DMK 51.6%won by 15.8%AIADMK 35.8%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.3% to 15.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.3% of the vote between them, up from 69.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
2,42,802
Turnout
70.1%
Valid votes
1,70,156
Margin
26,885
15.80%
Candidates
13 contested · winner DMK- 1Mano Thangaraj, T.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK87,74451.6%
- 2John Thankam, D.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK60,85935.8%
- 3SeelanNTK · NTK13,8998.2%
- 4Jenkins, D.Anaithu Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam · AMMK3,2341.9%
- 5Latha, P.Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,2720.7%
- 6None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA1,0360.6%
- 7Jeyaraj, M.MNM · MNM9810.6%
- 8SyedAli, A.Independent · IND3240.2%
- 9Glory Selvi, T.Independent · IND2710.2%
- 10Mathan, F.Independent · IND1770.1%
- 11Robert Singh, I.Independent · IND1750.1%
- 12Nagarajan, M.Independent · IND1290.1%
- 13Anchalose, Y.Independent · IND550.0%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- −9.5%
- DMK share
- 47.2% → 51.6%
- AIADMK share
- 21.9% → 35.8%
- Turnout
- 68.3% → 70.1%