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.
DemographicsEdit
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 StateEdit
| Year | Winner | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | K. S. Subramania Gounder | Indian National Congress | |
| 1962 | K. S. Subramania Gounder | Indian National Congress | |
| 1967 | R. Nallamuthu | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | |
Tamil NaduEdit
Election ResultsEdit
2021Edit
| 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 [[|N/A]] | Swing | ||||
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "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.