Constituency
73. Sankarapuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1984
TN-SANKARAPURAM
AIADMK 59.5%won by 26.9%DMK 32.6%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.9% to 26.9%.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 32.6% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Safe seatAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
89,362
Margin
24,031
26.89%
Candidates
4 contested · winner AIADMK- 1S.KALITHERTHANAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK53,16259.5%
- 2K.VENKATAPATHYDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK29,13132.6%
- 3KALIAPERUMALIndependent · IND6,5777.4%
- 4I.ABDUL WAHABIndependent · IND4920.6%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −23.0%
- AIADMK share
- 49.9% → 59.5%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 32.6%
- Turnout
- — → —