Salem – II Assembly constituency
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Salem-II | |
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Former constituency for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | South India |
State | Tamil Nadu |
District | Salem |
LS constituency | Salem |
Established | 1951 |
Abolished | 2011 |
Reservation | None |
Salem-II is a former state assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu.
History
[edit]Until 2008, the city of Salem was part of the Salem I and Salem II assembly constituencies. Since 1977, the ADMK won the Salem II assembly seat three times (1980, 1984 and 1991) and the DMK also won three times (1989, 1996 and 2006); the Janata Party (JP) won in 1977 and Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) won in 2001.[1]
The constituencies of Salem were redrawn as Salem North, Salem South and Salem West in 2008.[2]
Members of the Legislative Assembly
[edit]Election results
[edit]2006
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
DMK | Veerapandy S. Arumugam | 85,348 | 47.27% | ||
MDMK | Sureshkumar R | 70,605 | 39.11% | ||
DMDK | Gnanasekaran K V | 20,026 | 11.09% | ||
BJP | Anandhan P T | 1,574 | 0.87% | ||
BSP | Ponnusamy V | 668 | 0.37% | ||
Independent | Sreedhar N | 510 | 0.28% | ||
Margin of victory | 14,743 | 8.17% | −4.97% | ||
Turnout | 180,545 | 72.20% | 11.79% | ||
DMK gain from PMK | Swing | -6.98% |
2001
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
PMK | Karthe M. | 62,306 | 54.25% | ||
DMK | A. L. Thangavel | 47,221 | 41.11% | ||
MDMK | G.Arjunam | 2,030 | 1.77% | ||
Independent | Sethuraman.K. | 797 | 0.69% | ||
Independent | Venkatachalam.S.V. | 640 | 0.56% | ||
BSP | Ponnusamy.V. | 497 | 0.43% | ||
Margin of victory | 15,085 | 13.13% | −6.25% | ||
Turnout | 114,855 | 60.41% | −7.39% | ||
PMK gain from DMK | Swing | 9.42% |
1996
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
DMK | A. L. Thangavel | 63,588 | 44.83% | ||
AIADMK | Semmalai. S. | 36,097 | 25.45% | ||
AIIC(T) | Mohanraj. R. | 10,794 | 7.61% | ||
BJP | Vennira Aadai Nirmala (Selvi) | 1,997 | 1.41% | ||
MDMK | Thamarai Kannan. K.S.V. | 1,719 | 1.21% | ||
Independent | Krishnan. K. | 331 | 0.23% | ||
Margin of victory | 27,491 | 19.38% | −18.74% | ||
Turnout | 141,856 | 67.8% | 9.51% | ||
DMK gain from AIADMK | Swing | -19.08% |
1991
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AIADMK | Natesan M. | 66,904 | 63.90% | ||
DMK | Arumugam S. | 26,997 | 25.79% | ||
PMK | Manickam K. | 9,170 | 8.76% | ||
JP | Nallahambi M.M. | 417 | 0.40% | ||
Independent | Ariyan K.P. | 151 | 0.14% | ||
Independent | Ramasamy M. | 131 | 0.13% | ||
Margin of victory | 39,907 | 38.12% | 18.19% | ||
Turnout | 104,695 | 58.29% | −8.83% | ||
AIADMK gain from DMK | Swing | 20.38% |
1989
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
DMK | Arumugam. S.M | 45,358 | 43.52% | ||
AIADMK(JL) | Natesan. M.M | 24,593 | 23.60% | ||
INC | Rajendran. U.M | 22,755 | 21.83% | ||
AIADMK(JR) | Rajaram. K.M | 10,178 | 9.77% | ||
Independent | Murali. M.M | 348 | 0.33% | ||
Independent | Balakrishnan. K.P.M | 208 | 0.20% | ||
Margin of victory | 20,765 | 19.92% | 11.20% | ||
Turnout | 104,220 | 67.12% | −5.10% | ||
DMK gain from AIADMK | Swing | -10.27% |
1984
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AIADMK | Arumugam | 49,339 | 53.79% | ||
DMK | Arumugam S. | 41,333 | 45.07% | ||
Independent | Thiyagarajan. K.S. | 224 | 0.24% | ||
Independent | Kandasamy. C. | 208 | 0.23% | ||
Independent | Jayaprakasam. S. | 150 | 0.16% | ||
Independent | Palanivel. K. | 148 | 0.16% | ||
Margin of victory | 8,006 | 8.73% | 2.76% | ||
Turnout | 91,718 | 72.22% | 7.15% | ||
AIADMK hold | Swing | 2.22% |
1980
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AIADMK | Arumugam. M | 40,975 | 51.57% | ||
INC | Anbalagan. K | 36,235 | 45.61% | ||
JP | Solai-Erusan | 1,594 | 2.01% | ||
Independent | Seerangan. M | 446 | 0.56% | ||
Independent | Dhanamannar. M | 200 | 0.25% | ||
Margin of victory | 4,740 | 5.97% | 3.13% | ||
Turnout | 79,450 | 65.07% | 12.17% | ||
AIADMK gain from JP | Swing | 21.21% |
1977
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
JP | M. Arumugam | 22,636 | 30.36% | ||
DMK | K.A. Thangavelu | 20,523 | 27.53% | ||
CPI(M) | K.S. Arthanari | 19,173 | 25.71% | ||
CPI | K.V. Ramaswamy | 9,731 | 13.05% | ||
Margin of victory | 2,113 | 2.83% | −4.71% | ||
Turnout | 74,561 | 52.9% | −19.00% | ||
JP gain from DMK | Swing | -22.41% |
1971
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
DMK | Rajaram | 37,152 | 52.77% | ||
INC | R.Ramakrishnan | 31,844 | 45.23% | ||
Independent | S. Natarajan | 798 | 1.13% | ||
ABJS | S. S.Rama Rao | 608 | 0.86% | ||
Margin of victory | 5,308 | 7.54% | −9.65% | ||
Turnout | 70,402 | 71.9% | −6.15% | ||
DMK hold | Swing | -5.23% |
1967
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
DMK | E. R. Krishnan | 38,781 | 58.00% | ||
INC | A. R. Gounder | 27,285 | 40.81% | ||
ABJS | S. S. R. Rao | 799 | 1.19% | ||
Margin of victory | 11,496 | 17.19% | 2.61% | ||
Turnout | 66,865 | 78.05% | 4.01% | ||
DMK gain from INC | Swing | 14.91% |
1962
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | A.Rathanavel Gounder | 28,811 | 43.09% | ||
CPI | S.M.Ramiah | 19,976 | 29.88% | ||
SWA | M.Muthusami | 10,935 | 16.35% | ||
Independent | M.Chockalingam | 852 | 1.27% | ||
Margin of victory | 8,835 | 14.59% | −9.51% | ||
Turnout | 60,574 | 74.04% | 25.38% | ||
INC hold | Swing | 13.54% |
1957
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | A.Rathnavel Gounder | 19,755 | 29.54% | ||
CPI | S.M.Ramiah | 11,023 | 16.49% | ||
Independent | Thiruvengadam | 2,298 | 3.44% | ||
Independent | S.Ariaputhran | 2,282 | 3.41% | ||
Independent | Rajamanickam | 883 | 1.32% | ||
Margin of victory | 8,732 | 24.09% | 22.18% | ||
Turnout | 36,241 | 48.66% | 3.23% | ||
INC hold | Swing | 6.73% |
1952
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | C.Lakshma Kandan | 15,254 | 22.81% | ||
TTP | A.Subramaniam | 14,575 | 21.80% | ||
Independent | Ramanathan Chetty | 3,345 | 5.00% | ||
Independent | R.Manickam | 2,340 | 3.50% | ||
Margin of victory | 679 | 1.91% | |||
Turnout | 35,514 | 45.43% | |||
INC win (new seat) |
References
[edit]- ^ "Partywise Comparison Since 1977". Election Commission of India. 2011. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "New Constituencies, Post-Delimitation 2008" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2012.
- ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1957 : To the Legislative Assembly of Madras" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 : To the Legislative Assembly of Madras" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
External links
[edit]- "Statistical reports of assembly elections". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2010.