Constituency
73. Sankarapuram
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-SANKARAPURAM
DMK 43.5%won by 1.7%AIADMK 41.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 1.7%.
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 41.8% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- 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
1,44,844
Margin
2,466
1.70%
Candidates
8 contested · winner DMK- 1ANGAIYARKANNI. A (SELVI)Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK62,97043.5%
- 2SANNIYASI. PAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK60,50441.8%
- 3CHEZHIYAN. RDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK14,77310.2%
- 4ANNAMMAL . C (TMT.)Independent · IND2,3431.6%
- 5POOBATHI. CBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,4731.0%
- 6AIYADURAI. VIndependent · IND1,2690.9%
- 7AYYAKKANNU. SSamajwadi Party · SP8040.6%
- 8RAJKUMAR. JBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7080.5%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- PMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- −42.6%
- DMK share
- 44.3% → 43.5%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 41.8%
- Turnout
- — → —