Nanguneri
Nanguneri 2026: TVK's Reddiarpatti V. Narayanan wins by 16,419 votes
Reddiarpatti V. Narayanan handed TVK its breakthrough in southern Tirunelveli, polling 74,952 votes against Congress sitting MLA Ruby R. Manoharan on 58,533. The 16,419-vote margin makes Nanguneri one of the few seats where TVK toppled the Congress incumbent, ending five years of INC hold.
Top 5 candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | REDDIARPATTI V. NARAYANAN | TVK | 74,952 | 36.33% |
| 2 | RUBY.R.MANOHARAN | CONG | 58,533 | 28.37% |
| 3 | R. ESAKKIMUTHU | AMMK | 38,316 | 18.57% |
| 4 | S. SELVAM | NTK | 17,618 | 8.54% |
| 5 | TAMILSELVI | IND | 11,141 | 5.40% |
Postal ballot breakdown
Postal-ballot leader differs from overall winner. INC RUBY.R.MANOHARAN led postal ballots (1,169), but TVK REDDIARPATTI V. NARAYANAN won the seat overall (74,952).
| # | Candidate | Party | Postal votes | EVM votes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RUBY.R.MANOHARAN | INC | 1,169 | 57,364 | 58,533 |
| 2 | REDDIARPATTI V. NARAYANAN | TVK | 905 | 74,047 | 74,952 |
| 3 | R. ESAKKIMUTHU | AMMK | 499 | 37,817 | 38,316 |
| 4 | S. SELVAM | NTK | 239 | 17,379 | 17,618 |
| 5 | TAMILSELVI | PT | 102 | 11,039 | 11,141 |
Source: Election Commission of India · Form 20 data via results.eci.gov.in
Past results
Verified winners and runners-up across the last five elections, with the major alliance partners each side fielded.
Reddiarpatti V. Narayanan won the 2019 byelection on AIADMK ticket and now returns on TVK; Nanguneri has gone to a different party in every recent cycle.
About Nanguneri
Nanguneri lies on the southern lip of Tirunelveli district, the last assembly seat before the Western Ghats fold into Kanyakumari. The constituency is built around the Vanamamalai Perumal temple, an 800-year-old Vaishnavite shrine, and a string of tank-fed villages that depend on the Nambiyar river. Panagudi on NH44 is the busy lorry stop, with cement and lime industries dotting the highway between here and Kalakad. The scrub forest on the Mahendragiri foothills, ISRO's liquid propulsion test centre nearby, and remittance income from Sri Lankan-Tamil descendants give the seat an unusual mix of rural temple economy and quiet aerospace presence. The seat has flipped between AIADMK, Congress and now TVK across the last four cycles.
Travel from Nanguneri
Start at the Vanamamalai Perumal temple in the heart of Nanguneri town, then drive 25 km west into the Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve for the Sengaltheri trek. Panagudi on the highway is the local biryani stop, and the Mahendragiri ridge views from the Kanyakumari side make a clean afternoon return.
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