Sankari (state assembly constituency)

Sankagiri is a state assembly constituency in Salem district, Tamil Nadu, India. It comprises Sankari taluk and a portion of Omalur taluk. It is a part of the wider Namakkal constituency for national elections to the Parliament of India.^[1] Elections and winners in the constituency are listed below. The constituency is in existence since 1957 election.

Demographics[]

Kongu Vellalar and Vanniyar communities are numerically high in this constituency followed by Senguntha Mudaliar, Sozhiyar, Tamil Muslims, and Adi Dravida communities.^[2]^[3]

Madras State[]

Year	Winner
1957	K. S. Subramania Gounder	Indian National Congress
1962	K. S. Subramania Gounder	Indian National Congress
1967		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Tamil Nadu[]

Year	Winner
1971		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1977	P. Dhanapal	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1980	P. Dhanapal	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1984	P. Dhanapal	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1989		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1991	V. Saroja	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1996	V. Muthu	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2001	P. Dhanapal	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2006	V. P. Duraisamy	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2011	P. Vijayalakshmi	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2016	^[4]	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2021	S. SundaraRajan	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election Results[]

2021[]

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Sankari
Party		Candidate	Votes
	AIADMK	S. Sundararajan	1,15,472
	DMK	Rajesh	95,427
	NTK	Anitha	10,862
	MNM	Sengodan	3,175
Majority
Turnout
	AIADMK gain from		Swing

References[]

^ "Tamil Nadu - Final Notification & Order" (PDF). Delimitation Commission of India. National Informatics Centre. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
^ Dinamalar (2016). "Who will win Sankagiri constituency | Demographics".
^ "87 - சங்ககிரி". www.hindutamil.in.
^ "2016 Tamil Nadu General Election: Constituency Data Summary" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 87. Retrieved 27 May 2016.

"Statistical reports of assembly elections". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2010.

[1] "Tamil Nadu - Final Notification & Order" (PDF). Delimitation Commission of India. National Informatics Centre. Retrieved 27 January 2017.

[2] Dinamalar (2016). "Who will win Sankagiri constituency | Demographics".

[3] "87 - சங்ககிரி". www.hindutamil.in.

[4] "2016 Tamil Nadu General Election: Constituency Data Summary" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 87. Retrieved 27 May 2016.

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