Nagercoil is the administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari district and it is located in southern Tamil Nadu.

At present Kottar, Vadasery and Vetturnimadam are the important places in Nagercoil Corporation.

Kanyakumari district, which was part of the princely state of Travancore, was annexed to Tamil Nadu on 1 November 1956 as a result of the Kumari liberation struggle.

As part of the 2022 Tamil Nadu urban civic body elections, the Nagercoil Corporation went to polling on 19 February 2022, alongside 20 other municipal corporations of Tamil Nadu, to elect 52 councillors to represent the city's 52 wards; the councillors will choose one amongst themselves as the Mayor of Nagercoil.

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) won 24 out of the total 52 wards in Nagercoil, with the other parties in its Secular Progressive Alliance winning 8 more seats—7 for Indian National Congress, 1 for Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK).