A. Santhanam : Political Career

Election history

            All the elections where a candidate by the name A. Santhanam contested in whether lost or won, by how many votes. His/ her vote share etc details all can be found here.
          

2016 for Vidhan Sabha from Oddanchatram

LOST against Sakkarapani R

with 2% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Sakkarapani R	DMK	121,715
Kittusamy K	ADMK	55,988
Santhanam K	CPI	3,684
Palanisamy S K	BJP	1,909
None Of The Above	NOTA	1,274
Muthukumar K	IND	1,050
Arumugam M	NCP	701
Selvakumar K	NTK	611
Velliyangiri S	IND	447
Marimuthu T S	IND	435
Mohamed Nainer M	IND	420
Arulananthan P	KMDK	376
Shanmugam K	PMK	367
Sakthivel A	IND	258
Chellamuthu K	IND	93
Shanmugavel P	IND	86

2011 for Vidhan Sabha from Perambur

LOST against Soundararajan A

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Soundararajan A	CPM	84,668
N.R.Dhanapalan	DMK	67,245
R.Ravindrakumar	BJP	2,758
Vijayakumar K	JMM	961
Palani.S	BSP	912
Gopi Anand C	IND	861
Jesu I	IJK	753
Balakrishnan S	IND	699
Balakrishnan A	IND	662
Santhanam G	IND	456
Muralidharan B	IND	339
Thenkarai Muthu R	IND	317
Prabhakar S D	MSK	286
Raja P	IND	232
Mariadass J	PB	213
Kishorekumar A	IND	173
Sunder J	IND	156
Murthy G	IND	120
Sivakumar R	IND	111
Saravanan M	IND	104

2006 for Vidhan Sabha from Triplicane

LOST against Bader Sayeed

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Bader Sayeed	ADMK	40,404
Naganathan M.	DMK	37,628
Shivakumar K.	DMDK	4,834
Sathish Kumar S.	BJP	1,631
Vivekanandan R.	IND	319
Saravanan K.	BSP	181
Srinivasan R.	IND	144
Sasikumar S.	IND	134
Santhanam M.	IND	123
Shanmugam P.	IND	106

2006 for Vidhan Sabha from Arani

LOST against Sivanandam. R

with 41% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Sivanandam. R	DMK	69,722
Santhanam. A	ADMK	57,420
Ramesh. D.	DMDK	6,292
Gangadharan. E.	PNK	3,877
Nallathambi. R	IND	1,547
Narayanan. K.	BJP	1,427
Thirugnanam. D.	IND	849

2004 for Lok Sabha from Vellore

LOST against Kader Mohideen K. M

with 35% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Kader Mohideen K. M	DMK	436,642
Santhanam. A	ADMK	258,032
Paramasivam. A. M. S	JP	11,309
Karunanithi. E	BSP	7,524
Venkatesan. K	IND	5,590
Balachandran. V	IND	4,757
Shariff. M. K	IND	4,563
Arun Kumar. S	RPI(A)	4,147
Thanikachalam. D	IND	3,205
Chittybabu. P. C	IND	2,693
Mushthaque Ahmed. A. M	IND	1,332
Vatchalabai.(Selvi). Dr. P. K	SP	1,188
Chandran. T	IND	1,138
Sathiyamoorthy. J	BBP	1,124
Khader Basha. M. Z	IND	881
Kuppurao. V. P	IND	825
Kadhar Sherif. M	IND	697
Kanniyappan. P	IND	676
Kader Basha. A	IND	591

1996 for Vidhan Sabha from Chidambaram

LOST against S. Azhagiri

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
S. Azhagiri	TMC(M)	52,066
A. Radhakrishnan	INC	23,050
K. Devadoss	PMK	19,737
Durai Krishnamoorthy	MDMK	6,121
N. Manickam	IND	241
R. Palanivel	IND	238
K. Saravanan	IND	206
M. Azhappan	IND	157
K. Panneerselvam	IND	153
B. Sekar	IND	149
A. Santhanam	IND	139
S. Subramanian	IND	128
K. Dharman	IND	107
R. Manivel	IND	98
R. Alagiriswamy	IND	80
T. Arulmozhi	IND	78
M. Jai Sankar	IND	75
A. Perumal	IND	68
S.N. Natesan	SAP	59
T. Ramalingam	IND	50
T. Venkateswaran	IND	50

1996 for Vidhan Sabha from Gudalur

LOST against Mubarak B.M.

with 1% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Mubarak B.M.	DMK	73,565
Raju K.R.	ADMK	27,660
Vasu N.	CPM	12,978
Bhojan I.	BJP	5,359
Alwas M.	JP	1,115
Santhanam C.	PMK	1,006
Periasamy R.	IND	433
Sabiyulla R.M.	IND	416
Chandramohan L.	IND	299
Balan K.K.	IND	250
Ravindran K.	IND	165
Kulasai Perumal Nadar M.A.P.	IND	157
Muthusamy R.	IND	152
Sivan M.	IND	106
Ponnusamy C.	ATMK	76
Bellarmin R.	IND	47

1996 for Vidhan Sabha from Sholavandan

WON against A.M. Paramasivan

with 49% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
L. Santhanam	DMK	52,151
A.M. Paramasivan	ADMK	33,343
P.S. Manian	MDMK	13,588
V. Sundaram	JP	2,535
M.M. Muthunayagam	IND	1,799
C. Thirupathi	IND	650
M. Palaniselvan	ATMK	464
S. Karuppiah	IND	450
C. Marimuthu	IND	196
K. Ramachandran	IND	131
P. Sathiarajan	IND	97
R. Gnanasekarapandian	IND	93
T.K.Karuthapandian	IND	68
A.U. Dhandapani	IND	66
A. Murugan	IND	66
K. Veerapathran	IND	61
P. Thiagarajan	IND	38

1991 for Vidhan Sabha from Nagapattinam

LOST against Kodimari R.

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Kodimari R.	ADMK	53,050
Veerajyan G.	CPM	43,116
Chockalingam P. V.	PMK	3,411
Ambikapathy V. A. R.	BJP	1,329
Ramakrishnan A.	IND	161
Anirudhan K.	IND	160
Ravindran C.	TMM	132
Ganesan V. K.	IND	126
Rajendran M.	IND	61
Muthukrishnan S.	IND	43
Santhanam K.	IND	40

1984 for Vidhan Sabha from Karur

LOST against K. Vadivel

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
K. Vadivel	ADMK	65,363
K. V. Ramasamy	DMK	53,160
K. R. Krishnan	IND	597
P. Nallasamy	IND	292
P. Duraisamy	IND	283
R. Natesan	IND	226
S. Karthikeyan	IND	182
M. Santhanam	IND	155

1980 for Vidhan Sabha from Mayuram

LOST against Kittappa N.

with 1% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Kittappa N.	DMK	37,671
Bala Velayutham	ADMK	37,001
Anbalagan K. P.	IND	1,724
Santhanam S.	IND	649

1977 for Lok Sabha from Dindigul

LOST against Maya Thevar K.

with 2% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
Maya Thevar K.	ADK	283,341
Balasubramanyam A.	CPM	114,117
Mookkiah Thevar P.K.	IND	60,500
Santhanam N.M.	IND	8,768
Manokaran M.	IND	5,830
Sreenivasan N.	IND	2,861

1977 for Vidhan Sabha from Karur

LOST against K. Vadivel

with 0% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
K. Vadivel	ADMK	33,856
S. Nallasamy	DMK	22,264
K.S. Ramasamy	CPI	20,252
G. Balan	JNP	18,499
R. Poonnusamy	IND	938
V. Vembarayan	IND	386
M.S. Santhanam	IND	233

1977 for Vidhan Sabha from Kumbakonam

LOST against S.R. Eradha

with 16% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
S.R. Eradha	ADMK	26,432
O. Vadivelu Mazhavarayar	INC	23,450
R. Durai	DMK	17,460
C.R. Santhanam	JNP	12,814
K. Ramani	IND	1,116

1967 for Vidhan Sabha from Chengam

WON against A. Arumugham

with 57% vote share

Candidate	Party	Votes
P. S. Santhanam	DMK	29,828
A. Arumugham	INC	18,773
P. Dhanapal	IND	1,927
R. Kanniah	RPI	1,425
C. K. Manickam	IND	524