| Type: | SLA |
| Constituency No: | 87 |
| District: | Salem |
| Loksabha Cons: | Namakkal |
| State: | Tamil Nadu |
| Mla: | S. Sundararajan |
| Latest Election Year: | 2021 |
| Sangagiri | |
| Electors: | 2,74,234[1] |
Sangagiri or 'Sankari' is a state assembly constituency in Salem district, Tamil Nadu, India. Its State Assembly Constituency number is 87. It comprises Sangagiri taluk and a portion of Omalur taluk. It is a part of the wider Namakkal constituency for national elections to the Parliament of India.[2] Elections and winners in the constituency are listed below. The constituency is in existence since 1957 election. It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu, in India.
Vanniyar community is numerically high in this constituency followed by Kongu Vellalar Gounder, Senguntha Mudaliar, Sozhiya Vellalar, Muslims, and Adi Dravida communities.[3] [4]
| Year | Winner | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | K. S. Subramania Gounder | ||
| 1962 | |||
| 1967 | R. Nallamuthu | ||
| Year | Winner | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | V. Muthur | ||
| 1977 | P. Dhanapal | ||
| 1980 | |||
| 1984 | |||
| 1989 | R. Varadarajan | ||
| 1991 | V. Saroja | ||
| 1996 | V. Muthu | ||
| 2001 | P. Dhanapal | ||
| 2006 | V. P. Duraisamy | ||
| 2011 | P. Vijayalakshmi | ||
| 2016 | S. Raja[5] | ||
| 2021 | S. Sundararajan | ||