Constituency
89. Salem-Ii
Community mirrorTamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2006
TN-SALEM-II
DMK 47.3%won by 8.2%AIADMK 39.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 8.2%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 41.1% to 47.3% of the vote here (+6.2%).
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 39.1% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.4% between them, down from 95.4% — the field split more ways.
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
1,80,545
Margin
14,743
8.17%
Candidates
15 contested · winner DMK- 1ARUMUGAM SDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK85,34847.3%
- 2SURESHKUMAR RAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK70,60539.1%
- 3GNANASEKARAN K VDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK20,02611.1%
- 4ANANDHAN P TBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,5740.9%
- 5PONNUSAMY VBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6680.4%
- 6SREEDHAR NIndependent · IND5100.3%
- 7SARAVANAN RIndependent · IND4690.3%
- 8SAMBU KIndependent · IND3320.2%
- 9RAJAGOPAL PIndependent · IND2820.2%
- 10ABDUL KHADHAR M SIndependent · IND1940.1%
- 11KANDASAMY SIndependent · IND1560.1%
- 12ARUMUGAM SIndependent · IND1360.1%
- 13ARIVALAGAN PIndependent · IND840.0%
- 14ARUMUGAM NIndependent · IND810.0%
- 15ARUMUGAM SIndependent · IND800.0%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- PMK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- −32.9%
- DMK share
- 41.1% → 47.3%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 39.1%
- Turnout
- — → —