Salem (South) | |
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Constituency for the State Assembly | |
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Constituency details | |
State | Tamil Nadu |
District | Salem |
LS constituency | Salem |
Total electors | 2,60,372 [1] |
Most successful party | AIADMK (3 times) |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
Current MLA | E. Balasubramanian |
Party | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
Elected year | 2021 |
Salem South is a state assembly constituency in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu that was formed after the constituency delimitations of 2007. The previous constituencies - Salem I and Salem II - were redrawn as Salem North, Salem South and Salem West. [2]
Salem South comprises Salem Municipal Corporation Wards No. 37 to 60. It is a part of the wider Salem constituency for national elections to the Parliament of India. [3]
Category | Data |
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Created | 2016 |
Vanniyar | 30% |
Sengundhar Kaikola Mudaliyar | 35% |
Kannada/Telugu Devangar | 15% |
Adi Dravida | 7% |
Sourashtra Chetty | 05% |
Others | 8% |
Total Electorate | 2,63,233 |
Year | Winner | Party | |
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2011 | M. K. Selvaraju | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | |
2016 | A. B. Sakthivel Mudaliar [5] | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AIADMK | E. Balasubramanian | 97,506 | 49.22% | -2.18% | |
DMK | A. S. Saravanan | 74,897 | 37.80% | 1.80% | |
MNM | M. Prabu Manikandan | 10,368 | 5.23% | ||
NTK | S. Mariamma | 10,176 | 5.14% | 4.23% | |
AMMK | Se. Venkatajalam | 2,970 | 1.50% | ||
NOTA | Nota | 1,860 | 0.94% | -1.14% | |
BSP | S. Murali | 400 | 0.20% | -0.04% | |
Independent | R. Sundaram | 311 | 0.16% | ||
Independent | B. Devi | 224 | 0.11% | ||
Independent | K. Selvaraj | 210 | 0.11% | ||
Independent | Samundeswari. V | 149 | 0.08% | ||
Margin of victory | 22,609 | 11.41% | -3.98% | ||
Turnout | 1,98,122 | 76.09% | 0.92% | ||
Rejected ballots | 184 | 0.09% | |||
Registered electors | 2,60,372 | ||||
AIADMK hold | Swing | -2.18% | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AIADMK | Sakthivel A B | 101,696 | 51.39% | -13.57% | |
DMK | Gunasekaran M | 71,243 | 36.00% | 5.75% | |
PMK | Kumar K | 6,325 | 3.20% | ||
BJP | Annadurai N | 4,686 | 2.37% | 1.00% | |
NOTA | None Of The Above | 4,121 | 2.08% | ||
VCK | Jayachandran G | 3,983 | 2.01% | ||
NTK | Prema B | 1,788 | 0.90% | ||
Independent | Raja S | 820 | 0.41% | ||
Independent | Jayaraj S | 549 | 0.28% | ||
KMDK | Elango R C | 470 | 0.24% | ||
BSP | Solarajan M | 469 | 0.24% | -0.11% | |
Margin of victory | 30,453 | 15.39% | -19.32% | ||
Turnout | 1,97,889 | 75.18% | -3.69% | ||
Registered electors | 2,63,233 | ||||
AIADMK hold | Swing | -13.57% | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AIADMK | Selvaraju. M. K. | 112,691 | 64.97% | ||
DMK | Sivalingam. S. R. | 52,476 | 30.25% | ||
BJP | Annadurai. N | 2,377 | 1.37% | ||
UCPI | Mahalingam. N | 2,325 | 1.34% | ||
IJK | Sivanandham. M. R | 622 | 0.36% | ||
BSP | Pandiyan. R | 600 | 0.35% | ||
Independent | Balakrishnan. P | 462 | 0.27% | ||
Independent | Shahjahan. M. A. | 423 | 0.24% | ||
Independent | Janakiraman. J | 395 | 0.23% | ||
Independent | Kalaicheliyan. K | 287 | 0.17% | ||
LSWP | Viswanathan. G | 279 | 0.16% | ||
Margin of victory | 60,215 | 34.71% | {{{change}}} | ||
Turnout | 2,19,949 | 78.87% | |||
Registered electors | 1,73,464 | ||||
AIADMK win (new seat) |
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