Constituency
89. Salem-Ii
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 1996
TN-SALEM-II
DMK 54.9%won by 23.7%AIADMK 31.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 23.7%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 25.8% to 54.9% of the vote here (+29.1%).
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,15,771
Margin
27,491
23.75%
Candidates
23 contested · winner DMK- 1THANGAVEL, A.L.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK63,58854.9%
- 2SEMMALAI, S.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK36,09731.2%
- 3MOHANRAJ, R.AIICT · AIICT10,7949.3%
- 4VENNIRA AADAI NIRMALA (SELVI)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,9971.7%
- 5THAMARAI KANNAN, K.S.V.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK1,7191.5%
- 6KRISHNAN, K.Independent · IND3310.3%
- 7MAGANLAL JAIN, R.Independent · IND2480.2%
- 8SIVAJI, S.Independent · IND1530.1%
- 9CHINNIAH, N.Independent · IND1160.1%
- 10VAIYAPURI, V.Independent · IND1000.1%
- 11BALAJI, S.Independent · IND820.1%
- 12SUNDER RAJAN, R.Independent · IND660.1%
- 13RAMAN, R.Independent · IND560.0%
- 14BALAKRISHNAN, K.P.Independent · IND550.0%
- 15SARAVANAN, R.Independent · IND530.0%
- 16ARUNACHALAM, S.Independent · IND520.0%
- 17GANESAN, K.Independent · IND500.0%
- 18KANAKARAJ, D.Independent · IND470.0%
- 19KANDASAMY, R.Independent · IND460.0%
- 20SELVARAJ, S.Independent · IND360.0%
- 21VIJAYAKUMAR, S.Independent · IND360.0%
- 22NATARAJAN, G.Independent · IND290.0%
- 23VAIRAM, T.Independent · IND200.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +61.9%
- DMK share
- 25.8% → 54.9%
- AIADMK share
- 63.9% → 31.2%
- Turnout
- — → —