Constituency
391. Salem
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-SALEM
AIADMK 49.7%won by 3.5%TRC 46.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which now leads by 3.5%.
- AIADMK vote shareAIADMK went from 0.0% to 49.7% of the vote here (+49.7%).
- New challengerTRC (TRC) finished second with 46.3% — it did not contest here in 1998.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.0% of the vote between them, up from 90.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.2% to 58.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,57,383
Turnout
58.2%
Valid votes
7,31,277
Margin
25,411
3.47%
Candidates
21 contested · winner AIADMK- 1Selvaganapathi, T.M.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK3,63,68949.7%
- 2Ramamurthy, K.TRC · TRC3,38,27846.3%
- 3Devadass, R.TMCM · TMCM19,6042.7%
- 4Selvakumaran, P.M.Independent · IND2,6780.4%
- 5Arjunan, M.TNPWP · TNPWP1,6310.2%
- 6Sadhasivam, R.Independent · IND9460.1%
- 7Ashokan, A.Independent · IND6720.1%
- 8Chandramohan, A.Cpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL6520.1%
- 9Sampath Kumar, P.Independent · IND4620.1%
- 10Murugan, B.L.Independent · IND4340.1%
- 11Kannan, K.Independent · IND3950.1%
- 12Ramamoorthi, C.CMK · CMK3850.1%
- 13Arivumani, K.BMC · BMC3840.1%
- 14Kesavarajan, S.AJBP · AJBP2480.0%
- 15Periyasamy, T.Independent · IND2350.0%
- 16Mohammad Nazeerudeen, D.M.Independent · IND1290.0%
- 17Manickam, R.Independent · IND1230.0%
- 18Chinathambi, P.Independent · IND1070.0%
- 19Manimeghalan, M.A.K.THMM · THMM1050.0%
- 20Srinivasan, R.Independent · IND810.0%
- 21Rajendran, S.K.Independent · IND390.0%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- AIADMKflipped
- AIADMK–TRC swing
- +3.5%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 49.7%
- TRC share
- 0.0% → 46.3%
- Turnout
- 55.9% → 58.2%