Kanniyakumari is an Assembly constituency in the Kanniyakumari district, in the South region of Tamil Nadu.

The Kanniyakumari constituency went to polls on April 6, 2021.

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In the 2016 Assembly elections, Kanniyakumari was won by S Austin of DMK.

Before that, in the 2011 elections, the seat was held by KT Patchaimal of ADMK.

In the 2016 assembly polls, S Austin garnered 89,023 votes, securing over 42.41 percent of the vote share, and winning the seat by a margin of 5,912 votes.

In percentage terms, the victory margin was 2.82 percent.

The constituency polled 2,09,960 votes in the 2016 Tamil Nadu assembly polls with a voter turnout of 75.08 percent.

The Kanniyakumari constituency has a literacy level of 92.14 percent.

A total of 16 candidates stood in the 2016 elections.