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Nanguneri

Assembly constituency 227 · General seat · Tirunelveli district

Reddiarpatti V. Narayanan (TVK) is the MLA for Nanguneri.

TVK took the seat from INC in 2026.

In 2026 Reddiarpatti V. Narayanan won with 35.8% of the vote, 16,419 votes ahead of Ruby R. Manoharan (INC).

Nanguneri is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 5 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.

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Map of Nanguneri constituency, Tirunelveli districtNanguneri drawn on its boundary with the seats around it. Ambasamudram, Kanniyakumari, Ottapidaram, Padmanabhapuram, Palayamkottai, Radhapuram, Srivaikuntam, Tirunelveli
Boundaries: DataMeet (CC BY 2.5 India), approximate.
Lok Sabha seat
Tirunelveli
Area
about 1,180 km² (from the boundary)
Turnout 2021
69.3%
Seats sharing a border
Ambasamudram · Kanniyakumari · Ottapidaram · Padmanabhapuram · Palayamkottai · Radhapuram · Srivaikuntam · Tirunelveli

Election results

ElectionWinnerVotesRunner-upVotesMargin
2026TVK Reddiarpatti V. Narayanan74,952 · 35.8%INC Ruby R. Manoharan58,533 · 27.9%16,419 (7.8 pts)
2021INC Ruby R. Manoharan75,902 · 39.4%ADMK Ganesa Raja59,416 · 30.9%16,486 (8.6 pts)
2016INC H. Vasanthakumar74,932 · 43.5%ADMK Vijayakumar. M57,617 · 33.4%17,315 (10.0 pts)
2011ADMK A. Narayanan65,510 · 45.9%INC H. Vasanthakumar53,230 · 37.3%12,280 (8.6 pts)
Winner's and runner-up's share of the vote at each election

officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.

Attention in the news

Tirunelveli district: mentions per week

Busiest week: 28 September (92 mentions).

articlesvideosweek with a mention of Nanguneripaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover

Nanguneri itself is named in 5 of the district's 881 mentions (0.6%). The seat is too small to chart alone, so this is the district's picture.

observedCounted weekly in our archive, which starts 1 June 2026; articles are counted from 8 June 2026.

Issues and parties in the news

Tirunelveli district, last 30 days: topics named in the same items

Law & Order75
Health & Hospitals7
Education7
Farmers & Agriculture5
Corruption5
Development & Infrastructure3

Parties: named in the news, and votes at the polls

Tirunelveli news, 30 daysNanguneri vote, 2026
TVK935.8%
INC227.9%
DMK8did not stand
BJP4did not stand

Attention follows the week's news; votes follow the seat.

observedofficialTopics and parties: counted in our archive over the last 30 days. Votes: the 2026 election record.

Seats in Tirunelveli district

Tirunelveli
Seat2026 winnerLead (points)Mentions, 30 days
TirunelveliTVK5.2155†
AmbasamudramADMK5.34
PalayamkottaiDMK7.612
NanguneriTVK7.80
RadhapuramTVK6.22

† Tirunelveli is also the district's name: its count includes news about the whole district.

officialobservedWinners and leads: election records. Mentions: counted in our archive, 30 days.

Latest

Latest from Tirunelveli district: no recent headline names Nanguneri

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Sources and method

  • Election results, 2026: Election Commission of India (results.eci.gov.in), retrieved 2026-09-28.
  • Election results, 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), citing the Election Commission of India, retrieved 2026-10-09. Check applied: the lead equals winner minus runner-up votes and the printed shares agree (702 of 702 seat results passed, 5 corrected from the source's printed totals).
  • Vacancies and by-elections: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), retrieved 2026-10-09.
  • Boundary: DataMeet (CC BY 2.5 India). Approximate; drawn for orientation, not an official map.
  • Mentions are counted in our archive: articles and videos that name the place in the headline (a seat also counts for its district), by the same rules as the Trends pages. The archive starts 1 June 2026; articles are counted from 8 June 2026; earlier months are not in our store.
  • official = the Election Commission's own record · compiled = a secondary source, checked against its own totals · observed = counted in our sources · computed = derived from those.

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