Who won Sankarapuram in the 1984 Assembly election?

S.KALITHERTHAN of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) won Sankarapuram in the 1984 Assembly election with 53,162 votes (59.5% vote share), a margin of 24,031 votes over the runner-up.

Constituency

73. Sankarapuram

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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1984

TN-SANKARAPURAM

AIADMK 59.5%won by 26.9%DMK 32.6%

What changed here

Derived

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.9% to 26.9%.

New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 32.6% — it did not contest here in 1980.
Safe seatAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
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

89,362

Margin

24,031

26.89%

Candidates

4 contested · winner AIADMK

1S.KALITHERTHAN All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK53,16259.5%
2K.VENKATAPATHY Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK29,13132.6%
3KALIAPERUMAL Independent · IND6,5777.4%
4I.ABDUL WAHAB Independent · IND4920.6%

Since 1980

Derived

Winner then: AIADMK
Winner now: AIADMK
AIADMK–DMK swing: −23.0%
AIADMK share: 49.9% → 59.5%
DMK share: 0.0% → 32.6%
Turnout: — → —

72. Kallakurichi 74. Hosur

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