Constituency
213. Sankarankovil
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-SANKARANKOVIL
AIADMK 33.9%won by 0.5%DMK 33.4%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.3% to 0.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 27.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.4% between them, down from 98.4% — 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
1,11,752
Margin
600
0.54%
Candidates
12 contested · winner AIADMK- 1KARUPPASAMY, C.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK37,93333.9%
- 2RASIAH @ RAJA, S.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK37,33333.4%
- 3THANGAVELU, S.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK30,89327.6%
- 4ILANGAVI, M.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK2,0091.8%
- 5SHANMUGAVELU, P.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,7331.6%
- 6MARIAPPAN, C.Janahitha Paksha · JP6960.6%
- 7PERUMAL, K.Shiv Sena · SHS3010.3%
- 8KANDASAMY, V.Independent · IND2680.2%
- 9GANESAN, P.Independent · IND2160.2%
- 10ARASAN, U.Independent · IND1720.2%
- 11PIRAKASAM, M.Independent · IND1330.1%
- 12SHANMUGAVEL, P.Independent · IND650.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −24.8%
- AIADMK share
- 61.9% → 33.9%
- DMK share
- 36.6% → 33.4%
- Turnout
- — → —