Kanniyakumari is a Tamil Nadu assembly constituency located in Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha constituency in Kanniyakumari district in Tamil Nadu. The constituency is located in the southern corner of mainland India, comprising the popular tourist destination Kanniyakumari. In the 2011 election, it had 237,410 total number of voters, consisting of 120,372 males and 117,038 females. Kanniyakumari was one of 17 assembly constituencies to have VVPAT facility with EVMs in the 2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election. It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu.
Demographics Gender demographics of Kanniyakumari constituency as of 01.05.2021, taken ahead of the state general elections in 2021.
YearFemaleMaleTransgenderTotal20211,44,9821,47,3471042,92,433
Members of the Legislative Assembly +Travancore-Cochin assemblyConstituencyElectionWinnerPartyThovalai Agasthesswaram1952T. S. Ramasamy PillaiIndian National CongressA. SamrajThovalai1954T. S. Ramasamy PillaiPraja Socialist PartyAgastheeswaramP. Thanulinga NadarTamil Nadu Congress
+Madras State assemblyElectionWinnerParty 1957 T. S. Ramaswamy Pillai 1962 B. Natarajan 1967 B. M. Pillai
+Tamil Nadu assemblyElectionWinnerParty 1971 K. Rajah Pillai 1977 C. Krishnan 1980 S. Muthukrishnan 1984 K. Perumal Pillai 1989 K. Subramania Pillai 1991 M. Ammamuthu 1996 N. Suresh Rajan 2001 Thalavai Sundaram 2006 N. Suresh Rajan 2011 K. T. Pachaimal 2016 S. Austin 2021Thalavai N. Sundaram 2026
Election results
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1954 Agastheeswaram
1954 Thovala
1952
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