Constituency
219. Sankarankovil
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-SANKARANKOVIL
AIADMK 44.4%won by 8.2%DMK 36.2%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.2% to 8.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.6% between them, down from 92.8% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,33,672
Turnout
76.0%
Valid votes
1,77,510
Margin
14,489
8.16%
Candidates
16 contested · winner AIADMK- 1RAJALAKSHMI MAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK78,75144.4%
- 2ANBUMANI GDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK64,26236.2%
- 3SADHAN THIRUMALAIKUMAR T DRMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK20,80711.7%
- 4GUNASEKARAN KBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,2422.4%
- 5AMUTHANTK · NTK2,4761.4%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,2581.3%
- 7MURUGAN KAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB1,0420.6%
- 8RAJAN AIndependent · IND7820.4%
- 9SURESHKUMAR SPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK6450.4%
- 10SUBASHINI STMMK · TMMK5790.3%
- 11MARIAPPAN SIndependent · IND4570.3%
- 12SUBBULAKSHMI PShiv Sena · SHS3410.2%
- 13NAGARAJAN MIndependent · IND3040.2%
- 14VELLADURAI PIndependent · IND2840.2%
- 15VENNI UDAIYAR SJammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (Bhim) · JKNPP1600.1%
- 16MUTHU MTAVK · TAVK1200.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- +1.0%
- AIADMK share
- 50.0% → 44.4%
- DMK share
- 42.8% → 36.2%
- Turnout
- 75.7% → 76.0%