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Kanniyakumari: In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Radhakrishnan P. from Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) won the elections by a margin of 128662 votes. The polling / voting in Kanniyakumari constituency in the 2019 General elections took place in Phase 2 on 18 April. The major contest is between All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam#s Pon. Radhakrishnan and Congress Party#s H. Vasanthakumar

Kanniyakumari 2014 Lok Sabha Polls

In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam won 37 out of the 39 parliamentary seat with 44.3 percent vote share while the Bharatiya Janata Party managed to win just 1 seats with a 5.5 percent vote share.

Voter turnout in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha Lok Sabha constituency. The total voter turnout was 67.50% Lok Sabha percent with 65.80% Lok Sabha percent male voters turning out to cast their votes. Meanwhile, 69.24% Lok Sabha percent of the women voters cast their votes and 4150 Lok Sabha voters pressed on the NOTA

Out of the 25 Lok Sabha candidates who contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Kanniyakumari, 22 had to deposit their security. The voters gave their mandate in favour of Radhakrishnan P. of the Bharatiya Janta Party as he defeated Vasantha Kumar H. by a margin of 128662 votes.

Here are the past results of the Lok Sabha polls in Kanniyakumari constituency in Tamil Nadu

• 2009 Lok Sabha Elections: In 15th Lok Sabha election, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate had defeated Bharatiya Janta Party candidate by a margin of 65687 votes DMK candidate Smt. Davidson J. Helen had got 320161 while BJP got Radhakrishnan P votes.