Salem South Assembly constituency
Appearance
Salem (South) | |
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Constituency No. 90 for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly | |
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Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | South India |
State | Tamil Nadu |
District | Salem |
LS constituency | Salem |
Total electors | 2,60,372[1] |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
16th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent | |
Party | AIADMK |
Elected year | 2021 |
Salem South or 'Salem (South)' is a state assembly constituency in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu that was formed after the constituency delimitations of 2007. Its State Assembly Constituency number is 90. The previous constituencies - Salem I and Salem II - were redrawn as Salem North, Salem South and Salem West.[2] It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu.
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]
Demographics
[edit]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 |
Elections
[edit]Year | Winner | Party | |
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2011 | M. K. Selvaraju | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | |
2016 | A. B. Sakthivel[5] | ||
2021 | E. Balasubramanian |
Election Results
[edit]2021
[edit]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% | |
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% |
2016
[edit]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% | ||
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% |
2011
[edit]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% | ||
Margin of victory | 60,215 | 34.71% | {{{change}}} | ||
Turnout | 2,19,949 | 78.87% | |||
Registered electors | 1,73,464 | ||||
AIADMK win (new seat) |
References
[edit]- ^ "Form 21E (Return of Election)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 December 2021. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- ^ "New Constituencies, Post-Delimitation 2008" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2012.
- ^ "Tamil Nadu - Final Notification & Order" (PDF). Delimitation Commission of India. National Informatics Centre. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
- ^ Nakeeran (2019). "சேலம் தொகுதி யாருக்கு".
- ^ "2016 Tamil Nadu General Election: Constituency Data Summary" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 90. Retrieved 27 May 2016.