Constituency
373. Salem
Community mirrorTamil Nadu · India Lok Sabha Election, 2024
IN-SALEM
DMK 43.4%won by 5.4%AIADMK 38.0%
What changed here
DerivedDravida Munnetra Kazhagam held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.7% to 5.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
13,04,844
Margin
70,357
5.39%
Candidates
26 contested · winner DMK- 1SELVAGANAPATHI T MDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK5,66,08543.4%
- 2VIGNESH PAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK4,95,72838.0%
- 3ANNADURAI NPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK1,27,1399.7%
- 4DR MANOJKUMAR GNTK · NTK76,2075.8%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA14,8941.1%
- 6BHALAJI MIndependent · IND3,4410.3%
- 7MURALI SBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,3720.3%
- 8PALANIVEL KIndependent · IND2,8560.2%
- 9JEGANNATHAN AIndependent · IND2,4110.2%
- 10RAJA SIndependent · IND1,4560.1%
- 11MUTHUSAMY SIndependent · IND1,1970.1%
- 12ER PRABAKARAN SIndependent · IND1,1550.1%
- 13SHANMUGAM GIndependent · IND1,1470.1%
- 14SANTHALINGAM CIndependent · IND1,0980.1%
- 15SUTHARSANAM SAMK · AMK1,0360.1%
- 16AMBEDKAR CAPOI · APOI9610.1%
- 17RAMACHANDRAN CDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK7580.1%
- 18GOVINDHAN AIndependent · IND6930.1%
- 19MANICKAM RUMK · UMK5370.0%
- 20AHAMED SHAHJAHAN MIndependent · IND4660.0%
- 21INTHRAJITHKUPTHA GIndependent · IND4320.0%
- 22RAMASUNDARAM DIndependent · IND4220.0%
- 23KARUNAKARAN MIndependent · IND3770.0%
- 24RAJA AIndependent · IND3320.0%
- 25VIGNESH MIndependent · IND3280.0%
- 26JOTHILINGAM MIndependent · IND3160.0%
Since 2019
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- DMK
- DMK–AIADMK swing
- −6.3%
- DMK share
- 48.3% → 43.4%
- AIADMK share
- 36.6% → 38.0%
- Turnout
- 77.9% → —