Salem South (state assembly constituency)

Salem South is a state assembly constituency in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu that was formed after the constituency delimitations of 2007. The previous constituencies - Salem I and Salem II - were redrawn as Salem North, Salem South and Salem West.[1]

Salem South comprises Salem Municipal Corporation Wards No. 37 to 60. It is a part of the wider Salem constituency for national elections to the Parliament of India.[2]

DemographicsEdit

Demographics
Category Data
Created 2016
Vanniyar 30%
Sengundhar Kaikola Mudaliyar 35%
Kannada/Telugu Devangar 15%
Adi Dravida 7%
Sourashtra Chetty 05%
Others 8%
Total Electorate 2,63,233

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ElectionsEdit

Year Winner Party
2011 M. K. Selvaraju All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2016 A. B. Sakthivel Mudaliar[4] All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election ResultsEdit

2021Edit

2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election: Salem South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AIADMK Balasubramaniam 97,506
DMK A. S. Saravanan 74,897
MNM Manikandan 10,368
Naam Tamilar Katchi Maariyamma 10,176
Majority
Turnout
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Hold gain from [[|N/A]] Swing

ReferencesEdit

  1. "New Constituencies, Post-Delimitation 2008" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2012.
  2. "Tamil Nadu - Final Notification & Order" (PDF). Delimitation Commission of India. National Informatics Centre. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  3. Nakeeran (2019). "சேலம் தொகுதி யாருக்கு".
  4. "2016 Tamil Nadu General Election: Constituency Data Summary" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 90. Retrieved 27 May 2016.