| Colachel | |
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| Constituency for the State Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| District | Kanniyakumari |
| LS constituency | Kanniyakumari |
| Established | 1952-present |
| Total electors | 262175 [1] |
| Reservation | General |
| Most successful party | INC (8 times) |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| Current MLA | J. G. Prince |
| Party | INC |
| Elected year | 2016 |
Colachel is an assembly constituency located in Nagercoil Lok Sabha Constituency in Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu.
| Year | Winner | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | T. T. Daniel | Tamil Nadu Congress | |
| Year | Winner | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Lourdammal Simon | Indian National Congress | |
| 1962 | A. Swamidhas | Independent | |
| 1967 | A. Chidambaranatha Nadar | Indian National Congress | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | J. G. Prince | 90,681 | 49.56% | 9.37% | |
| BJP | Ramesh P. | 65,849 | 35.99% | 11.37% | |
| NTK | Antony Aslin J. | 18,202 | 9.95% | 8.58% | |
| MNM | Lathis Mary S. | 2,127 | 1.16% | ||
| DMDK | Sivakumar M. | 1,332 | 0.73% | ||
| CPI(ML)L | Anthony Muthu S. M. | 1,218 | 0.67% | 0.07% | |
| ABHM | Krishna Kumar A. | 1,145 | 0.63% | ||
| NOTA | Nota | 878 | 0.48% | ||
| BSP | Anish K. M. | 831 | 0.45% | ||
| Independent | Vijayakumar R. | 272 | 0.15% | ||
| Independent | Marystella R. | 201 | 0.11% | ||
| Margin of victory | 24,832 | 13.57% | -1.99% | ||
| Turnout | 182,969 | 67.95% | 4.17% | ||
| Registered electors | 269,287 | ||||
| INC hold | Swing | 9.37% | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | J. G. Prince | 67,195 | 40.19% | 0.03% | |
| BJP | Ramesh P | 41,167 | 24.62% | 0.03% | |
| AIADMK | Patchaimal K. T. | 39,218 | 23.46% | -8.58% | |
| MDMK | Sambathchandra R. | 12,909 | 7.72% | ||
| NTK | Prabaharan T. | 2,281 | 1.36% | ||
| NOTA | None Of The Above | 1,593 | 0.95% | ||
| CPI(ML)L | Anthonymuthu | 1,000 | 0.60% | -0.48% | |
| PMK | Alexanderrajkumar A | 772 | 0.46% | ||
| Independent | Selvaraj M | 339 | 0.20% | ||
| Aakhashdhev M | 277 | 0.17% | |||
| Independent | Christopher M. | 230 | 0.14% | ||
| Margin of victory | 26,028 | 15.57% | 7.44% | ||
| Turnout | 167,205 | 63.78% | -0.51% | ||
| Registered electors | 262,175 | ||||
| INC hold | Swing | 0.03% | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | J. G. Prince | 58,428 | 40.16% | -6.83% | |
| AIADMK | Larence. P | 46,607 | 32.03% | 13.09% | |
| BJP | Ramesh. P | 35,778 | 24.59% | -2.61% | |
| CPI(ML)L | Anthony Muthu. S. M | 1,566 | 1.08% | ||
| Independent | Varkees Tharuma Raj. G | 1,262 | 0.87% | ||
| BSP | Abu Thahir. A. P | 872 | 0.60% | ||
| Independent | Kathiresan. V | 537 | 0.37% | ||
| ABHM | Selvaraj. M | 438 | 0.30% | -0.28% | |
| Margin of victory | 11,821 | 8.13% | -11.66% | ||
| Turnout | 226,321 | 64.28% | 2.62% | ||
| Registered electors | 145,488 | ||||
| INC hold | Swing | -6.83% | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | S. Jeyapaul | 50,641 | 46.99% | ||
| BJP | Gandhi. M. R | 29,321 | 27.21% | ||
| AIADMK | K. T. Pachaimal | 20,413 | 18.94% | -27.29% | |
| DMDK | Wellington. S | 4,941 | 4.58% | ||
| Independent | Linga Perumal. C | 656 | 0.61% | ||
| ABHM | Surendran Nair. K | 626 | 0.58% | ||
| BSP | Dharmendra Kumar. S. N | 449 | 0.42% | ||
| Independent | Thomas. S | 310 | 0.29% | ||
| Independent | Kumaraswamy. H | 164 | 0.15% | ||
| Independent | Karunakaran | 142 | 0.13% | ||
| Independent | Balakrishnan. C | 109 | 0.10% | ||
| Margin of victory | 21,320 | 19.78% | 3.31% | ||
| Turnout | 107,772 | 61.67% | 11.63% | ||
| Registered electors | 174,762 | ||||
| INC gain from AIADMK | Swing | 0.76% | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIADMK | K. T. Pachaimal | 42,354 | 46.23% | ||
| MDMK | R. Sambath Chandra | 27,265 | 29.76% | 17.77% | |
| DMK | Era Bernard | 20,296 | 22.15% | -20.70% | |
| Independent | A. Frederick | 1,206 | 1.32% | ||
| NCP | C. Raja Singh | 502 | 0.55% | ||
| Margin of victory | 15,089 | 16.47% | 8.75% | ||
| Turnout | 91,623 | 50.04% | -10.32% | ||
| Registered electors | 183,117 | ||||
| AIADMK gain from DMK | Swing | 3.37% | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DMK | Era Bernard | 41,217 | 42.85% | ||
| BJP | S. P. Kutty | 33,791 | 35.13% | 18.07% | |
| MDMK | Sambath Chandra. R. | 11,528 | 11.99% | ||
| INC | Pauliah. A. | 8,401 | 8.73% | -51.27% | |
| Independent | Chandra Sekhar | 186 | 0.19% | ||
| AIIC(T) | Jaipal. J. T. | 168 | 0.17% | ||
| Independent | Sreekumaran Thampy. A. | 137 | 0.14% | ||
| Independent | Chandrasekaran. N. | 130 | 0.14% | ||
| Independent | Tharchis Xavier. S. | 130 | 0.14% | ||
| Independent | Ponnuswamy. E. | 83 | 0.09% | ||
| Independent | Murugan. R. | 71 | 0.07% | ||
| Margin of victory | 7,426 | 7.72% | -29.91% | ||
| Turnout | 96,181 | 60.36% | 4.38% | ||
| Registered electors | 165,972 | ||||
| DMK gain from INC | Swing | -17.15% | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | A. Pauliah | 52,641 | 60.01% | 20.82% | |
| JD | Bathakbishnan R. | 19,626 | 22.37% | ||
| BJP | Appancheyl S. | 14,968 | 17.06% | ||
| Independent | Thomas S. | 111 | 0.13% | ||
| Independent | Johnson M. | 108 | 0.12% | ||
| Independent | Soosai Nayagom S. | 101 | 0.12% | ||
| Independent | Jacobe Mianous T. | 99 | 0.11% | ||
| Independent | Lingaraja N. | 73 | 0.08% | ||
| Margin of victory | 33,015 | 37.63% | 24.58% | ||
| Turnout | 87,727 | 55.98% | -10.86% | ||
| Registered electors | 160,212 | ||||
| INC hold | Swing | 20.82% | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Pauliah-A. M | 36,611 | 39.19% | ||
| DMK | Sambath Chandra-R | 24,414 | 26.13% | 4.26% | |
| AIADMK | F. M. Rajarathnam | 18,747 | 20.07% | -19.26% | |
| AIADMK | Jonas | 13,292 | 14.23% | -25.10% | |
| Independent | Raveendran. A. M | 187 | 0.20% | ||
| Independent | Soosai Michael. P. M | 173 | 0.19% | ||
| Margin of victory | 12,197 | 13.06% | 12.37% | ||
| Turnout | 93,424 | 66.84% | -5.30% | ||
| Registered electors | 141,330 | ||||
| INC gain from AIADMK | Swing | -0.14% | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIADMK | F. M. Rajarathnam | 33,585 | 39.33% | 6.36% | |
| BJP | M. R. Gandhi | 32,996 | 38.64% | ||
| DMK | N. Paramonydhas | 18,678 | 21.87% | -45.16% | |
| Independent | V. Rajendran | 138 | 0.16% | ||
| Margin of victory | 589 | 0.69% | -33.37% | ||
| Turnout | 85,397 | 72.14% | 16.02% | ||
| Registered electors | 123,569 | ||||
| AIADMK gain from DMK | Swing | -27.70% | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DMK | S. Retnaraj | 42,949 | 67.03% | 38.33% | |
| AIADMK | Sanotsham. M. | 21,127 | 32.97% | 8.28% | |
| Margin of victory | 21,822 | 34.06% | 32.36% | ||
| Turnout | 64,076 | 56.12% | -6.47% | ||
| Registered electors | 115,330 | ||||
| DMK gain from JP | Swing | 36.63% | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP | R. Athiswami | 21,131 | 30.40% | ||
| DMK | S. Retnaraj | 19,949 | 28.70% | -15.18% | |
| AIADMK | F.M. Rasarathinam | 17,165 | 24.69% | ||
| INC | A. Pauliah | 11,264 | 16.21% | -38.78% | |
| Margin of victory | 1,182 | 1.70% | -9.40% | ||
| Turnout | 69,509 | 62.59% | -8.40% | ||
| Registered electors | 111,755 | ||||
| JP gain from INC | Swing | -24.58% | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | A. Pauliah | 37,401 | 54.98% | 6.61% | |
| DMK | S. Retnaraj | 29,852 | 43.88% | ||
| Independent | Eugene A. | 773 | 1.14% | ||
| Margin of victory | 7,549 | 11.10% | 8.71% | ||
| Turnout | 68,026 | 70.99% | -1.33% | ||
| Registered electors | 97,695 | ||||
| INC hold | Swing | 6.61% | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | A. Chidambaranatha Nadar | 29,325 | 48.37% | 4.74% | |
| SWA | S. Retnaraj | 27,879 | 45.99% | ||
| Independent | Y. Devadason | 2,887 | 4.76% | ||
| Independent | L. Louis | 532 | 0.88% | ||
| Margin of victory | 1,446 | 2.39% | -9.62% | ||
| Turnout | 60,623 | 72.31% | -2.76% | ||
| Registered electors | 86,726 | ||||
| INC gain from Independent | Swing | -7.27% | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | A. Swamidhas | 36,054 | 55.64% | ||
| INC | Lourdammal Simon | 28,275 | 43.63% | 2.90% | |
| Independent | John Russel | 471 | 0.73% | ||
| Margin of victory | 7,779 | 12.00% | 7.33% | ||
| Turnout | 64,800 | 75.07% | 31.31% | ||
| Registered electors | 88,634 | ||||
| Independent gain from INC | Swing | 14.91% | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Lourdammal Simon | 14,055 | 40.73% | ||
| Independent | S. Doraiswamy | 12,443 | 36.06% | ||
| Independent | R. K. Ram. | 3,309 | 9.59% | ||
| Independent | P. Johnson | 2,875 | 8.33% | ||
| Independent | S. M. Shahul Hamid | 1,826 | 5.29% | ||
| Margin of victory | 1,612 | 4.67% | |||
| Turnout | 34,508 | 43.76% | |||
| Registered electors | 78,859 | ||||
| INC gain from TTNC | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTNC | Thompson Tharmaraj Daniel | 15,542 | 59.14% | ||
| INC | Ramachandra Nadar | 10,738 | 40.86% | 40.86% | |
| Margin of victory | 4,804 | 18.28% | |||
| Turnout | 26,280 | 69.48% | |||
| Registered electors | 37,824 | ||||
| TTNC win (new seat) | |||||
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