Constituency
89. Salem (North)
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2016
TN-SALEM-NORTH
DMK 45.1%won by 5.1%AIADMK 40.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 5.1%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 0.0% to 45.1% of the vote here (+45.1%).
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 40.0% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.1% between them, down from 90.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.4% to 72.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,65,999
Turnout
72.1%
Valid votes
1,91,820
Margin
9,873
5.15%
Candidates
24 contested · winner DMK- 1RAJENDRAN.RDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK86,58345.1%
- 2SARAVANAN.K.R.SAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK76,71040.0%
- 3KATHIR RAASARATINAMPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK7,9754.2%
- 4GOPINATH.R.PBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,9223.1%
- 5DEVADASS.RTMCM · TMCM4,1572.2%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA4,0092.1%
- 7KOVENDHAN.RNTK · NTK1,9541.0%
- 8NATESAN.PIndependent · IND1,4660.8%
- 9AMJATH BASHA.ASDPI · SDPI4710.2%
- 10SARAVANAN.MNationalist Congress Party · NCP4310.2%
- 11GOVINDARAJ.KIndependent · IND4010.2%
- 12SUBRAMANI.R.KIndependent · IND3440.2%
- 13SENKOTTUVEL.CKMDK · KMDK3390.2%
- 14ARAVINTH.RIndependent · IND2490.1%
- 15LATHA.BRPIA · RPIA1820.1%
- 16PONNUTHAMBI.SRPI · RPI1310.1%
- 17PONNUSAMY.VBahujan Samaj Party · BSP990.1%
- 18SABBAPATHI.MYSP · YSP810.0%
- 19KRISHNASAMY.M.AIndependent · IND780.0%
- 20SURESH.TIndependent · IND670.0%
- 21VELAYUDHAM.PIndependent · IND570.0%
- 22PALANIVEL.KIndependent · IND530.0%
- 23PRABHU.GIndependent · IND310.0%
- 24RAMACHANDRAN.PIndependent · IND300.0%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- DMDK
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- +5.1%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 45.1%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 40.0%
- Turnout
- 74.5% → 72.1%