Election
Constituency

73. Sankarapuram

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996

TN-SANKARAPURAM

DMK 53.7%won by 19.0%AIADMK 34.7%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 19.0%.

  • DMK vote shareDMK went from 25.3% to 53.7% of the vote here (+28.4%).
  • 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
1,16,754
Margin
22,158
18.98%

Candidates

9 contested · winner DMK
  1. 1T. UDHAYASURIYANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK62,67353.7%
  2. 2A. SARUVAR KASIMAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK40,51534.7%
  3. 3M. CHINNAPPACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7,1016.1%
  4. 4A. RAMASAMYAIICT · AIICT5,1764.4%
  5. 5P. CHENGODANIndependent · IND3480.3%
  6. 6M. ARUMUGAMIndependent · IND2950.3%
  7. 7V. KODIYANIndependent · IND2270.2%
  8. 8A.S. SHAJAHANIndependent · IND2170.2%
  9. 9T. ABDUL WAHABIndependent · IND2020.2%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
AIADMK
Winner now
DMKflipped
DMK–AIADMK swing
+61.8%
DMK share
25.3% → 53.7%
AIADMK share
68.1% → 34.7%
Turnout
— → —
72. Kallakurichi74. Hosur
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