Constituency
73. Sankarapuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1989
TN-SANKARAPURAM
DMK 33.1%won by 9.4%ADKJR 23.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 9.4%.
- New challengerADKJR (ADKJR) finished second with 23.7% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.8% between them, down from 92.1% — the field split more ways.
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
1,07,129
Margin
10,017
9.35%
Candidates
6 contested · winner DMK- 1MUTHAIYAN, M.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK35,43833.1%
- 2KALITHEERATHAN, S.ADKJR · ADKJR25,42123.7%
- 3SAROJINI MUTHUSAMIIndian National Congress · INC25,36523.7%
- 4SARAVAR KASIM, A.ADKJL · ADKJL18,84017.6%
- 5CHANDIRAN, G.Independent · IND1,4621.4%
- 6ABDUL WAHAP, T.Independent · IND6030.6%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–ADKJR swing
- −23.2%
- DMK share
- 32.6% → 33.1%
- ADKJR share
- 0.0% → 23.7%
- Turnout
- — → —