Chennai: Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK on Wednesday retained the Sankarankoil (SC) Assembly constituency, with party nominee S Muthuselvi defeating DMK candidate Jawahar Suryakumar by a massive margin of 68,744 votes.
Muthuslevi polled 94,964 votes against Suryakumar's 26,220.
Vaiko-led MDMK's Sadan Thirumalai Kumar polled just 20,675 votes while DMDK's Muthukumar was pushed to the fourth spot with a meagre 12,144 votes.
DMK, MDMK, DMDK and nine other candidates who were in the fray lost their deposits in the keenly contested election....
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03:13 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Sankarankoil: Ruling AIADMK's S Muthuselvi was leading by 3583 votes after the first round of counting was over in the Sankarankoil (SC) assembly bypoll in Tamil Nadu this morning. DMK's Jawahar Suryakumar was in the second spot with 1917 votes followed by the MDMK and DMDK who polled 1184 and 798 votes, official sources said. The bypoll was necessitated due to the death of AIADMK minister C Karuppasamy in October... 
