Salem (Lok Sabha constituency)

Salem is a parliamentary (Lok Sabha) constituency in Tamil Nadu, India.

Salem
Lok Sabha Constituency
Salem constituency, post-2008 delimitation
Incumbent	S.R.Parthiban
Parliamentary Party	DMK
Elected Year	2019 Election
Constituency Details
Established	1952-present
State	Tamil Nadu
Total Electors	1,171,839[1]
Assembly Constituencies	84. Omalur 86. Edappadi 88. Salem West 89. Salem North 90. Salem South 91. Veerapandi

Assembly segments

Salem Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:[2]

1. Omalur
2. Salem North
3. Salem South
4. Salem West
5. Veerapandi
6. Edappadi

Members of Parliament

Key

  INC     DMK     AIADMK  

Lok Sabha	Duration	Name of M.P.	Party Affiliation
First	1952-57	S. V. Ramaswamy	Indian National Congress
Second	1957-62	S. V. Ramaswamy	Indian National Congress
Third	1962-67	S. V. Ramaswamy	Indian National Congress
Fourth	1967-71	K. Rajaram	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Fifth	1971-77	E. R. Krishnan	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Sixth	1977-80	P. Kannan	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Seventh	1980-84	C. Palaniappan	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Eighth	1984-89	Rangarajan Kumaramangalam	Indian National Congress
Ninth	1989-91	Rangarajan Kumaramangalam	Indian National Congress
Tenth	1991-96	Rangarajan Kumaramangalam	Indian National Congress
Eleventh	1996-98	R. Devadass	Indian National Congress
Twelfth	1998-99	Vazhappady Koothappadayachi Ramamurthy	Indian National Congress
Thirteenth	1999-04	T. M. Selvaganapathi	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Fourteenth	2004-09	K. V. Thangkabalu	Indian National Congress
Fifteenth	2009-14	S. Semmalai	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Sixteenth	2014-19	V. Pannerselvam	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Seventeenth	2019-incumbent	S. R. Parthiban[3]	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election results

2019 results

General Election, 2019: Salem

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	DMK	S. R. Parthiban	6,06,302	48.3%	+13.19
	AIADMK	K. R. S. Saravanan	4,59,376	36.6%	-11.76
	MNM	M.Prabu Manikandan	58,662	4.67	+4.67
	AMMK	S. K. Selvam	52,332	4.17	+4.17
	NTK	Raja Ammaiyappan	33,890	2.7	+2.7
	NOTA	None of the Above	17,130	1.36
Majority			1,46,926	11.70
Turnout			12,56,330	77.91
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing

2014 results

General Election, 2014: Salem

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AIADMK	V. Pannerselvam	5,56,546	48.36	+5.88
	DMK	S.Umarani	2,88,936	25.11	+4.73
	DMDK	L.K.Sudhish	2,01,265	17.49	+4.05
	INC	Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam	46,477	4.04	-33.25
	Independent	N.Chinnusamy	5,374	0.47	n/a
	AAP	E.Satheesh Kumar	5,198	0.45	-
	Independent	K.Govindaraju	3,261	0.28	n/a
	Independent	M.Senthil Kumar	2,903	0.25	n/a
	Independent	S.Sakthivel	2,581	0.22	n/a
	Independent	S.Sakthivel	2,581	0.22	n/a
	Independent	A.Raja	2,203	0.19	n/a
	Independent	R.Kuppayee	1,701	0.15	n/a
	Makkal Manadu	G.Shanmugam	1,623	0.14	n/a
	BSP	T.Vinayagamoorthi	1,617	0.14	-0.40
	Independent	S.Umarani	1,232	0.11	n/a
	Independent	A.Rajakannu	1,151	0.10	n/a
	Independent	K.Thiagarajan	777	0.07	n/a
	Independent	M.Arumugam	731	0.06	n/a
	RPI(A)	R.Venkatesan	623	0.05	-
	Independent	N.Panneerselvam	574	0.05	n/a
	Independent	M.Ahamed Shahjahan	529	0.05	n/a
	Independent	I.Abdul Wahid	526	0.05	n/a
	Independent	R.Prakasam	484	0.04	n/a
	AITC	A.Mass Ganesh	474	0.04	n/a
	Independent	G.Nandakumar	357	0.03	n/a
	NOTA	None of the above	20,601	1.79	-
Majority			2,67,610	23.25	-18.06
Turnout			11,50,296	76.78	+0.36
	AIADMK hold		Swing	+5.88

2009 results

General Election, 2009:Salem

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AIADMK	S. Semmalai	3,80,460	42.48	+6.22
	INC	K. V. Thangkabalu	3,33,969	37.29	-22.64
	DMDK	Alagaapuram R.Mohanraj	1,20,325	13.44	-
	Independent	C.Selladurai	23,056	2.57	n/a
	BSP	R.Balasubramani	4,858	0.54	+0.28
	Independent	K.Nandagopal	4,451	0.50	n/a
	Independent	Po.Nallathambi	4,441	0.50	n/a
	Kongunadu Makkal Desia Katchi	M.Ashok Samraj	3,642	0.41	n/a
	Independent	N.B.Dhamodharan	3,111	0.35	n/a
	Independent	T.Periyasamy	3,010	0.34	n/a
	Akila India Vallalar Peravai	M.Annadurai	2,041	0.23	n/a
	Independent	M.A.Shah Jahan	1,832	0.20	-0.94
	Pyramid Party of India	A.Andhraprakash	1,713	0.19	n/a
	Independent	N.Chinnan	1,297	0.14	n/a
	Independent	C.Kowsalya	1,059	0.12	n/a
	Independent	P.Muthusamy	1,026	0.11	n/a
	Independent	C.D.Jayavenugopal	949	0.11	n/a
	Independent	K.S.Govanam Thangavel	854	0.10	n/a
	Independent	M.Krishnan	775	0.09	n/a
	AITC	M.A.S.S.Ganesh	755	0.08	n/a
	Independent	G.Chandrasekaran	658	0.07	n/a
	Independent	V.Maheswaran	658	0.07	n/a
	Independent	A.Muniyappan	614	0.07	n/a
Majority			46,491	5.19	-18.48
Turnout			8,95,554	76.42	+17.17
	AIADMK gain from INC		Swing	+6.22

2004 results

General Election, 2004: Salem

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	K. V. Thangkabalu	4,44,591	59.93	+52.64
	AIADMK	A.Rajasekaran	2,68,964	36.26	-12.63
	Independent	M.A.Shah Jahan	8,466	1.14	n/a
	Independent	C.D.Jaya Venugopal	4,346	0.58	n/a
	ABHM	N.Balakrishnan	4,101	0.55	n/a
	JP	R.Rajavel	3,916	0.52	n/a
	Independent	M.Rajavel	1,334	0.18	n/a
	Independent	Dr. A.K.Asraf Ali	920	0.12	n/a
	Independent	A.Baskar	829	0.11	n/a
	Independent	P.Rathinam	747	0.10	n/a
	Independent	J.Basheer	690	0.09	n/a
	Independent	K.A.Gopal	673	0.09	n/a
	Independent	G.A.Kannan	660	0.09	n/a
	Independent	K.Selvam	611	0.08	n/a
	Independent	M.Syed Mohammed	589	0.08	n/a
Majority			1,75,627	23.67	+20.2
Turnout			7,41,437	59.25	+0.08
	INC gain from AIADMK		Swing	+52.64

1999 results

General Election, 1999: Salem

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AIADMK	T.M.Selvaganapathi	363,689	49.73	-4.59
	Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress	K.Ramamurthy	338,278	46.26	N/A
	TMC	R.Devadass	19,604	2.68	-32.17
	Independent	P.M.Selvakumaran	2,678	0.37	N/A
	Tamil Nadu Peasants & Workers Party	M.Arjunan	1,631	0.22	N/A
	Independent	R.Sadhasivam	946	0.13	N/A
	Independent	A.Ashokan	672	0.09	N/A
	Communist Party of India (Marxist-Lenninist) (Liberation)	A.Chandramohan	652	0.09	N/A
	Independent	P.Sampath Kumar	462	0.06	N/A
	Independent	B.L.Murugan	434	0.06	N/A
	Independent	K.Kannan	395	0.05	N/A
	Christian Mannetra Kazhagam	C.Ramamoorthi	385	0.05	N/A
	Bharatha Makkal Congress	K.Arivumani	384	0.05	N/A
	Ajeya Bharat Party	S.Kesavarajan	248	0.03	-0.29
	Independent	T.Periyasamy	235	0.03	N/A
	Independent	D.M.Mohammad Nazeerudeen	129	0.02	N/A
	Independent	R.Manickam	123	0.02	N/A
	Independent	P.Chinathambi	107	0.01	N/A
	Tharasu Makkal Mandram	M.A.K.Manimeghalan	105	0.01	-0.16
	Independent	R.Srinivasan	81	0.01	N/A
	Independent	S.K.Rajendran	39	0.01	N/A
Majority			25,411	3.47	-17.15
Turnout			743,934	59.17	+1.47
	AIADMK gain from Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress		Swing	-4.59

1998 results

General Election, 1998: Salem

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent	K.Ramamurthy	365,557	55.47	-
	TMC	R.Devadass	229,677	34.85	-12.22
	INC	K.V.Thangkabalu	48,027	7.29	-21.73
	Independent	P.Sampathkumar	10,311	1.56	-
	Ajeya Bharat Party	S.Kesavarajan	2,091	0.32	-
	BSP	A.G.Padmanabhan	1,710	0.26	-
	Independent	P.Marimuthu	550	0.08	-
	Independent	K.Palanisamy	495	0.08	-
	Independent	C.Singaravelu	405	0.06	-
	Independent	T.Periasamy	150	0.02	-
Majority			135,880	20.62	+2.57
Turnout			679,778	57.70	-7.66
	Independent gain from TMC		Swing	+55.47

1996 results

General Election, 1996: Salem

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	TMC	R.Devadass	315,277	47.07	N/A
	INC	K.V.Thangkabalu	194,392	29.02	-38.01
	AIIC(T)	P.Rangarajan Kumaramangalam	120,345	17.97	N/A
	BJP	N.Rajamani	9,538	1.42	+0.12
	MDMK	B.Mohanraj	6,245	0.93	N/A
	Independent	A.C.Murugesan	4,927	0.74	-
	Independent	S.Eswaran	1,944	0.29	-
	RPI	A.Madeswaran	1,218	0.18	-
	Independent	V.Chinnasamy	1,172	0.17	-
	Independent	C.Manickam	1,164	0.17	-
	Independent	A.Rajendran	1,063	0.16	-
	Independent	M.Balavenkatesh	1,009	0.15	-
	Independent	Bala.Nagamanickam	988	0.15	-
	Independent	S.Sait Musthafa	911	0.14	-
	Independent	A.Mahabook Shariff	897	0.13	-
	Independent	N.Krishnamoorthy	784	0.12	-
	Independent	K.Ganesan	784	0.12	-
	Independent	V.Ram Mohan	755	0.11	-
	Independent	P.M.Selvakumaran	698	0.10	-
	Independent	P.Sampath Kumar	644	0.10	-
	Independent	S.B.Meganathan	571	0.09	-
	Independent	K.Palanisamy	540	0.08	-
	Independent	M.Kandasami	466	0.07	-
	Independent	B.Ramamoorthy	456	0.07	-
	Independent	N.Krishnamoorthy	417	0.06	-
	Independent	S.T.Sivagnanam	406	0.06	-
	Independent	P.Mayan	399	0.06	-
	Independent	K.Annamalai	397	0.06	-
	Independent	K.M.Padmanapan	396	0.06	-
	Independent	N.Chakkarapani	318	0.05	-
	Independent	S.Annamalai	245	0.04	-
	Independent	Vedanayagam Rama	188	0.03	-
	Independent	S.Venkatachalam	183	0.03	-
	Independent	Velliangiri K.S Veerapandi	80	0.01	-
Majority			120,885	18.05	-28.59
Turnout			706,406	65.36	+4.25
	TMC gain from INC		Swing	+47.07

1991 results

General Election, 1991: Salem

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	Rangarajan Kumaramangalam	406,042	67.03	+6.18
	DMK	K.P.Arthanarisamy	123,474	20.38	-3.78
	PMK	K.Arjunan	56,775	9.37	-3.63
	BJP	K.S.Ramanathan	7,867	1.30	N/A
	JP	V.S.Paramasivam	2,675	0.44	-23.34
	Independent	Anbalali Selvi V. (W)	1,719	0.28	-
	Independent	S.Sekar	1,140	0.19	-
	Tharasu Makkal Mandram	Bharathi alias Bharathiraja A.	1,037	0.17	0
	Independent	T.Ramchandran	983	0.16	-
	Independent	S.Selladurai	953	0.16	-
	Independent	M.Kandasamy	574	0.09	-
	Independent	S.T.Sivagnanam	474	0.08	-
	Independent	N.Chakkarapani	458	0.08	-
	Independent	K.Thiruganana-Sambantham	413	0.07	-
	Independent	Velliangiri	365	0.06	-
	Independent	P.P.Chandrasekar	311	0.05	-
	Independent	P.Sivaprakasam	272	0.04	-
	Independent	D.Siva Kumar	217	0.04	-
Majority			282,568	46.64	+9.95
Turnout			629,493	61.11	-3.67
	INC gain from [[|N/A]]		Swing	+6.18

1989 results

General Election, 1989: Salem

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	Rangarajan Kumaramangalam	400,936	60.85	-8.36
	DMK	M.Karthikeyan	159,166	24.16	-26.69
	PMK	K.Sadasivam	85,628	13.00	-
	Tamiliar Kazhagam	A.Balasumbramaniam	5,721	0.87	-
	Independent	N.Krishnamurthy	1,186	0.18	-
	Independent	K.Perumal	1,137	0.17	-
	Tharasu Makkal Mandaram	P.Pachamuthu	1,088	0.17	-
	Independent	I.Ramachadran	857	0.13	-
	Independent	M.D.Sugabnan	576	0.09	-
	Independent	M.Kandasamy	403	0.06	-
	Independent	M.Palanisamy	371	0.06	-
	Independent	S.Sekar	355	0.05	-
	Independent	R.Radhakrishnan	334	0.05	-
	Independent	S.T.Sivagnanam	315	0.05	-
	Independent	K.S.Villingiri	279	0.04	-
	Independent	V.Ashok Kumar	278	0.04	-
	Independent	P.Chandrasekar	255	0.04	-
Majority			241,770	36.69	-8.74
Turnout			668,594	64.78	-6.69
	INC gain from [[|N/A]]		Swing	-8.36

1984 results

General Election, 1984: Salem

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	Rangarajan Kumaramangalam	359,819	69.21	+28.66
	JP	M.A.Kandasamy	123,644	23.78	N/A
	Independent	T.Sambalingam	6,808	1.31	+0.59
	Independent	O.K.Ekambaram	6,218	1.20	-
	Independent	P.Raju	5,785	1.11	-
	Independent	A.M.Vachravel	3,445	0.66	-
	Independent	M.Sengottuvelu	3,430	0.66	-
	Independent	G.Selvaraj	2,752	0.53	-
	Independent	R.Thangaraju	2,660	0.51	-
	Independent	G.Mani	2,276	0.44	-
	Independent	S.Ariyaputhran	1,677	0.32	-
	Independent	P.Thulsi Ramachari	1,349	0.26	-
Majority			236,175	45.43	+39.73
Turnout			548,043	71.47	+3.4
	INC gain from JP		Swing	+28.66

1980 results

General Election, 1980: Salem

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	DMK	C.Palaniappan	233,971	50.85	+10.53
	AIADMK	P. Kannan	207,713	45.14	-12.96
	INC(U)	M.Gandhinathan	5381	1.17	-
	Independent	T.Sambalingam	3,327	0.72	-
	Independent	P.N.Balasubramaniam	3,007	0.65	-
	Independent	M.Ramaswami	1864	0.41	-
	Independent	Vasanthi Muthu	1,442	0.31	-
	Independent	B.Vadivelu	1,092	0.24	-
	Independent	C.N.Kangani	953	0.21	-
	Independent	P. Kandasamy	918	0.20	-
	Independent	S.C.Thambi (Sakkari Gounder )	440	0.10	-
Majority			26,258	5.70	-7.57
Turnout			470,633	68.07	+3.11
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	+10.53

1977 results

General Election, 1977: Salem

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AIADMK	P. Kannan	254,138	58.71	N/A
	DMK	K.Rajaram	174,534	40.32	-15.55
	Independent	B.T.Ramalingam	1296	0.30	n/a
	Independent	N.Adhinarayanan	1103	0.30	n/a
	Independent	T.Ponnusamy	1059	0.24	n/a
	Independent	K.Asaithambi	1296	0.30	n/a
Majority			54,796	13.27	+9.35
Turnout			440,410	64.96	-10.65
	AIADMK gain from DMK		Swing

1971 results

General Election, 1971: Salem

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	DMK	E.R. Krishnan	230,736	55.87	-1.2
	INC (O)	M. P. Subramanyam	175,940	42.60	n/a
	BJS	K. N. Lakshmanan	3944	0.96	-1.42
	Independent	T. V. Anganna Chettiar	2339	0.57%	n/a
Majority			54,796	13.27	+9.35
Turnout			422,782	70.87	-4.74
	DMK gain from [[|N/A]]		Swing	-1.2

1967 results

General Election, 1967: Salem

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	DMK	K. Rajaram	219,380	57.07	+11.65
	INC	R. Ramakrishnan	155,871	40.55	-8.79
	BJS	R. S. Rao	9,168	2.38	n/a
Majority			63,509	16.52	+12.6
Turnout			393,435	75.61	+5.99
	DMK gain from INC		Swing	+11.65

1962 results

General Election, 1962: Salem

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	S. V. Ramaswamy	147,525	49.34	+2.74
	DMK	K. Rajagopal	135,787	45.42	-
	Independent	R. K. Periasamy	5,605	1.87	n/a
	Independent	T. S. Periasami	5,493	1.84	n/a
	BJS	J. Srinivasan	4,581	1.53	n/a
Majority			11,738	3.92	-26.25
Turnout			306,635	69.62	+24.6
	INC gain from [[|N/A]]		Swing

1957 results

General Election, 1957: Salem

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	S. V. Ramaswamy	85,342	47.18	+2.74
	Independent	S. K. Babie Kandasami	30,764	17.01	n/a
	Independent	A. Ganesasankaran	29,529	16.32	n/a
	Independent	B. V. Govindaraj	26,878	14.86	n/a
	Independent	Manicka Mudaliar	8,370	4.63	n/a
Majority			54,578	30.17	+24.84
Turnout			180,883	45.02	-10.6
	INC gain from [[|N/A]]		Swing	+2.74

1952 results

General Election, 1952: Salem

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	S. V. Ramaswamy	90,570	44.44	n/a
	Independent	Konnu Rao Sahaib S. Durai Konnu Pillai	79,705	39.11	n/a
Majority			10,865	5.33	-
Turnout			203,792	55.62	-
	INC gain from [[|N/A]]		Swing

See also

• Salem
• List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha

References

1. GE 2009 Statistical Report: Constituency Wise Detailed Result
2. "List of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Tamil Nadu. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 May 2006. Retrieved 9 October 2008.
3. "General elections to the 17th Lok Sabha, 2019 - List of members elected" (PDF). New Delhi: Election Commission of India. 25 May 2019. p. 27. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

External links

• Salem lok sabha constituency election 2019 date and schedule