Sankarankovil
Dhilipan Jaishankar (ADMK) is the MLA for Sankarankovil.
ADMK took the seat from DMK in 2026.
In 2026 Dhilipan Jaishankar won with 33.0% of the vote, 6,489 votes ahead of C. Ramarajan (TVK).
Sankarankovil is rarely named in the news our sources carry: 18 mentions since 1 June 2026. The charts below show the district's coverage, labelled as the district's.
- Lok Sabha seat
- Tenkasi
- Area
- about 873 km² (from the boundary)
- Turnout 2021
- 72.1%
- Seats sharing a border
- Kadayanallur · Kovilpatti · Sattur · Tenkasi · Tirunelveli · Vasudevanallur
Election results
| Election | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | ADMK Dhilipan Jaishankar | 64,865 · 33.0% | TVK C. Ramarajan | 58,376 · 29.7% | 6,489 (3.3 pts) |
| 2021 | DMK E. Raja | 71,347 · 38.9% | ADMK V. M. Rajalakshmi | 66,050 · 36.0% | 5,297 (2.9 pts) |
| 2016 | ADMK V. M. Rajalakshmi | 78,751 · 44.4% | DMK Anbumani G | 64,262 · 36.2% | 14,489 (8.2 pts) |
| 2011 | ADMK C. Karuppasamy | 72,297 · 50.0% | DMK M. Umamaheswari | 61,902 · 42.8% | 10,395 (7.2 pts) |
officialcompiled2026: Election Commission of India. 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia, checked against its own totals.
Attention in the news
Tenkasi district: mentions per week
Busiest week: 1 June (22 mentions).
articlesvideosweek with a mention of Sankarankovilpaler bar: a week our collection did not fully cover
Sankarankovil itself is named in 18 of the district's 235 mentions (7.7%). The seat is too small to chart alone, so this is the district's picture.
observedCounted weekly in our archive, which starts 1 June 2026; articles are counted from 8 June 2026.
Issues and parties in the news
Tenkasi district, last 30 days: topics named in the same items
Parties: named in the news, and votes at the polls
Attention follows the week's news; votes follow the seat.
observedofficialTopics and parties: counted in our archive over the last 30 days. Votes: the 2026 election record.
Seats in Tenkasi district
Tenkasi| Seat | 2026 winner | Lead (points) | Mentions, 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sankarankovil | ADMK | 3.3 | 3 |
| Vasudevanallur | DMK | 3.5 | 0 |
| Kadayanallur | DMK | 2.8 | 8 |
| Tenkasi | DMK | 4.4 | 58† |
| Alangulam | DMK | 3.5 | 1 |
† Tenkasi is also the district's name: its count includes news about the whole district.
officialobservedWinners and leads: election records. Mentions: counted in our archive, 30 days.
Latest
From Tenkasi district, last 30 days: no headline in that time names Sankarankovil
- ரூ.60 கோடியில் தென்காசி புறவழிச் சாலை பணிகள் தீவிரம்Tamil originalHindu Tamil Thisai
Sources and method
- Election results, 2026: Election Commission of India (results.eci.gov.in), retrieved 2026-09-28.
- Election results, 2011, 2016, 2021: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), citing the Election Commission of India, retrieved 2026-10-09. Check applied: the lead equals winner minus runner-up votes and the printed shares agree (702 of 702 seat results passed, 5 corrected from the source's printed totals).
- Vacancies and by-elections: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), retrieved 2026-10-09.
- Boundary: DataMeet (CC BY 2.5 India). Approximate; drawn for orientation, not an official map.
- Mentions are counted in our archive: articles and videos that name the place in the headline (a seat also counts for its district), by the same rules as the Trends pages. The archive starts 1 June 2026; articles are counted from 8 June 2026; earlier months are not in our store.
- official = the Election Commission's own record · compiled = a secondary source, checked against its own totals · observed = counted in our sources · computed = derived from those.