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Sankarankovil

2026 Legislative Assembly · Result declared 04 May 2026 · ECI official
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Sankarankovil 2026: AIADMK's Dhilipan Jaishankar flips seat by 6,489 votes

AIADMK's Dr. Dhilipan Jaishankar took Sankarankovil with 64,865 votes, holding off TVK's C. Ramarajan by 6,489 votes. The result flips the SC-reserved seat back from DMK after a single cycle, with TVK's debut showing pushing the AIADMK candidate close in a 21-cornered contest.

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Winner · MLA-elect
DR. DHILIPAN JAISHANKAR
AIADMK
64,865 votes (33.62% of polled)
→ View Dr . Dhilipan Jaishankar's full MLA profile
Runner-up: C. RAMARAJAN (TVK) with 58,376 votes — trailed by 6,489 votes (3.36% of polled).
Margin
6,489
votes
Polled
1,92,942
total votes cast
Candidates
21
on the ballot
Winner share
33.62%
of polled

Vote share — top finishers

Top 5 candidates

# Candidate Party Votes Share
1DR. DHILIPAN JAISHANKARAIADMK64,86533.62%
2C. RAMARAJANTVK58,37630.26%
3SANGAI. GANESANCONG42,56722.06%
4M. KAVITHANTK12,7676.62%
5VASANTHI MURUGESANIND8,0064.15%

Postal ballot breakdown

Postal ballots are counted before EVM rounds and reflect votes cast by polling-duty staff, government officers on election duty, and absentee voters. 3,528 postal ballots were counted in this constituency.

Postal-ballot leader differs from overall winner. TVK C. RAMARAJAN led postal ballots (1,182), but AIADMK DR. DHILIPAN JAISHANKAR won the seat overall (64,865).

#CandidatePartyPostal votesEVM votesTotal
1C. RAMARAJANTVK1,18257,19458,376
2DR. DHILIPAN JAISHANKARAIADMK1,01163,85464,865
3SANGAI. GANESANINC59841,96942,567
4M. KAVITHANTK32512,44212,767
5VASANTHI MURUGESANAIPTMM2437,7638,006

Source: Election Commission of India · Form 20 data via results.eci.gov.in

Past results

Verified winners and runners-up across the last five elections, with the major alliance partners each side fielded.

2026
Dr. Dhilipan JaishankarAIADMK
runner-upC. RamarajanTVK
6,489vote margin
2021
E. RajaDMK
runner-upV.M. RajalakshmiAIADMK
5,297vote margin
2016
V.M. RajalakshmiAIADMK
runner-upG. AnbumaniDMK
14,489vote margin
2011
C. KaruppasamyAIADMK
runner-upM. UmamaheswariDMK
10,395vote margin
2006pre-delim.
C. KaruppasamyAIADMK
runner-upS. ThangaveluDMK
4,442vote margin
2001pre-delim.
C. KaruppasamyAIADMK
runner-upP. DuraisamyPT
9,262vote margin
1996pre-delim.
C. KaruppasamyAIADMK
runner-upS. Rasiah @ RajaDMK
600vote margin

About Sankarankovil

Sankarankovil is an SC-reserved constituency in Tenkasi district, built around the famous Sri Sankara Narayanaswamy temple where Shiva and Vishnu share a single idol. The seat takes in the temple town, the surrounding paddy and groundnut villages, and stretches of the Tamiraparani-fed Tenkasi belt. The economy runs on temple-pilgrimage trade, dry-zone agriculture and a strong handloom and textile presence. Politically the seat was an AIADMK fortress under C. Karuppasamy across 1996-2011 and went DMK only in 2021 with E. Raja, before flipping back to AIADMK in 2026.

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