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Constituency

79. Sankarapuram

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Tamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016

TN-SANKARAPURAM

DMK 44.7%won by 7.1%AIADMK 37.6%

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 7.1%.

  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.3% between them, down from 95.3% — the field split more ways.
  • Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
2,50,770
Turnout
81.1%
Valid votes
2,03,295
Margin
14,528
7.15%

Candidates

19 contested · winner DMK
  1. 1UDHAYASURIYAN.TDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK90,92044.7%
  2. 2MOHAN PAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK76,39237.6%
  3. 3SIVARAMAN SPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK13,6126.7%
  4. 4GOVINTHAN.RDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK13,3436.6%
  5. 5RAJENDRAN SKMDK · KMDK1,1890.6%
  6. 6MOORTHY M KIndependent · IND1,1810.6%
  7. 7ABDUL GAFOOR.GSDPI · SDPI1,1410.6%
  8. 8None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,0320.5%
  9. 9RAJAMANI VIndependent · IND9550.5%
  10. 10SANKAR SNTK · NTK6630.3%
  11. 11MANNAN M PBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5720.3%
  12. 12ARUMUGAM PIndependent · IND5410.3%
  13. 13SARATHI KIJK · IJK3150.2%
  14. 14MARIKANNU AIndependent · IND3140.2%
  15. 15DHANAM KRPI · RPI2750.1%
  16. 16SENTHIL MURUGAN PIndependent · IND2280.1%
  17. 17JAYAPRAKASH KIndependent · IND2230.1%
  18. 18ARASU AIndependent · IND2210.1%
  19. 19OVIYAR ANANDH CLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP1780.1%

Since 2011

Derived
Winner then
AIADMK
Winner now
DMKflipped
DMK–AIADMK swing
+14.3%
DMK share
44.1% → 44.7%
AIADMK share
51.2% → 37.6%
Turnout
81.8% → 81.1%
78. Rishivandiam80. Kallakurichi
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