Constituency
90. Salem (South)
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · Tamil Nadu Assembly Election, 2021
TN-SALEM-SOUTH
AIADMK 48.8%won by 11.3%DMK 37.5%
What changed here
DerivedAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.4% to 11.3%.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,63,134
Turnout
76.0%
Valid votes
1,99,982
Margin
22,609
11.31%
Candidates
25 contested · winner AIADMK- 1E.BALASUBRAMANIANAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK97,50648.8%
- 2A.S.SARAVANANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK74,89737.5%
- 3M.PRABU MANIKANDANMNM · MNM10,3685.2%
- 4S.MARIAMMANTK · NTK10,1765.1%
- 5SE.VENKATAJALAMAnaithu Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam · AMMK2,9701.5%
- 6None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA1,8600.9%
- 7S.MURALIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4000.2%
- 8R.SUNDARAMIndependent · IND3110.2%
- 9B.DEVIIndependent · IND2240.1%
- 10K.SELVARAJIndependent · IND2100.1%
- 11SAMUNDESWARI.VIndependent · IND1490.1%
- 12R.VELMURUGANCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1330.1%
- 13K.N.VEERASENANIndependent · IND1120.1%
- 14M.SUNDARAPOI · APOI870.0%
- 15SATHIYAPRIYARPIA · RPIA790.0%
- 16R.ELAVARASANVTVTK · VTVTK750.0%
- 17S.SARAVANANIndependent · IND630.0%
- 18M.KUMARIndependent · IND620.0%
- 19S.RAJIDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK610.0%
- 20M.PERIYASAMYIndependent · IND610.0%
- 21N.MAYAKANNANIndependent · IND580.0%
- 22S.KRISHNAKUMARIndependent · IND460.0%
- 23D.M.MOHAMMAD NAZEERUDEENIndependent · IND260.0%
- 24K.YASIN BASHAIndependent · IND260.0%
- 25K.MARIAPPANIndependent · IND220.0%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- AIADMK
- AIADMK–DMK swing
- −4.1%
- AIADMK share
- 51.4% → 48.8%
- DMK share
- 36.0% → 37.5%
- Turnout
- 75.2% → 76.0%