Constituency
88. Salem (West)
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-SALEM-WEST
AIADMK 39.9%won by 3.6%DMK 36.3%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.3% to 3.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.2% between them, down from 96.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.3% to 74.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,71,212
Turnout
74.7%
Valid votes
2,02,478
Margin
7,247
3.58%
Candidates
20 contested · winner AIADMK- 1VENKATACHALAM.GAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK80,75539.9%
- 2PANNEER SELVAM.C.Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK73,50836.3%
- 3ARUL.RPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK29,98214.8%
- 4ALAGAAPURAM R. MOHANRAJDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK8,9624.4%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,1071.5%
- 6RASA.ANTK · NTK1,3740.7%
- 7VENKATACHALAM.RKMDK · KMDK8570.4%
- 8HARIHARAN.K.RIJK · IJK5540.3%
- 9PONGALI.K.SIndependent · IND4900.2%
- 10JEEVANANTHAM.MIndependent · IND4600.2%
- 11VENKATACHALAM.GIndependent · IND3800.2%
- 12VEERAKUMAR.PIndependent · IND3550.2%
- 13PANNEERSELVAM.NIndependent · IND3180.2%
- 14RAJASHEGARAN. S.K.RIndependent · IND3110.2%
- 15BALAMURUGAN.GRPIA · RPIA2660.1%
- 16RAMACHANDRAN.PIndependent · IND2190.1%
- 17SAKTHIVEL.JIndependent · IND1750.1%
- 18ARIVAZHAGAN.PVTK · VTK1720.1%
- 19SELVAKUMAR.DIndependent · IND1390.1%
- 20CHITRA .SIndependent · IND940.0%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −12.7%
- AIADMK share
- 56.5% → 39.9%
- DMK share
- 40.2% → 36.3%
- Turnout
- 79.9% → 74.7%