Constituency
213. Sankarankovil
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2001
TN-SANKARANKOVIL
AIADMK 43.5%won by 7.8%PT 35.8%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.5% to 7.8%.
- New challengerPuthiya Tamilagam (PT) finished second with 35.8% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.3% of the vote between them, up from 67.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,19,500
Margin
9,262
7.75%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AIADMK- 1KARUPPASAMY C.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK52,00043.5%
- 2P.DURAISAMYPuthiya Tamilagam · PT42,73835.8%
- 3T. SADHANTHIRUMALAIKUMARMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK20,61017.2%
- 4S.VIJAYARAJIndependent · IND1,5481.3%
- 5P. SUBRAMANIANIndependent · IND1,0690.9%
- 6M. KRISHNAMMALIndependent · IND8360.7%
- 7CHINNADURAI .NIndependent · IND6990.6%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–PT swing
- −26.2%
- AIADMK share
- 33.9% → 43.5%
- PT share
- 0.0% → 35.8%
- Turnout
- — → —