Salem North (State Assembly Constituency)

Salem North is a state assembly constituency in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

It was created in 2008 when the previous constituencies Salem I and Salem II, were redrawn as Salem North, Salem South and Salem West. Salem North was one of the 17 assembly constituencies to have VVPAT facility with EVMs in Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, 2016.

Salem North consists of:

1. Salem Municipal Corporation Wards - No.6 to 16 and 26 to 36
2. Kannankurichi (Town Panchayat)

Members of Legislative Assembly

Key

  DMDK     DMK  

Election		Member	Party
	2011	R. Mohan Raj	Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam
	2016	R.Rajendran	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Election results

2016 results

Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, 2016: Salem North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMK	R.Rajendran	86,583	45.13	n/a
	AIADMK	Saravanan K.R.S.	76,710	39.99	n/a
	PMK	Kathir. Raasaratinam	7,975	4.16	n/a
	BJP	R.P.Gopinath	5,922	3.08	+0.55
	TMC	R.Devadass	4,157	2.16	n/a
	NTK	R.Kovendhan	1,954	1.02	n/a
	Independent	P.Natesan	1,466	0.76	n/a
	SDPI	Amjath Basha.A	471	0.25	n/a
	NCP	Saravanan.M	431	0.22	n/a
	Independent	Govindaraj.K	401	0.21	n/a
	Independent	Subramani.R.K	344	0.18	n/a
style="background-color: Template:Kongunadu Makkal Desia Katchi/meta/color; width: 5px;" |	[[Kongunadu Makkal Desia Katchi|Template:Kongunadu Makkal Desia Katchi/meta/shortname]]	Senkottuvel.C	339	0.17	n/a
	Independent	Aravinth.R	249	0.13	n/a
	RPI(A)	Latha.B	182	0.1	n/a
	RPI	Ponnuthambi.S	131	0.07	-0.42
	BSP	Ponnusamy.V	99	0.05	-0.28
style="background-color: Template:Youth And Students Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" |	[[Youth And Students Party|Template:Youth And Students Party/meta/shortname]]	Sabbapathi.M	81	0.04	n/a
	Independent	Krishnasamy.M.A	78	0.04	n/a
	Independent	Suresh.T	67	0.03	n/a
	Independent	Velayudham.P	57	0.03	n/a
	Independent	Palanivel.K	53	0.03	n/a
	Independent	Prabhu.G	31	0.01	n/a
	Independent	Ramachandran.P	30	0.01	n/a
	NOTA	None of the Above	4,009	2.09	n/a
Majority			9,873	5.14	n/a
Turnout			191,820	71.06	-3.42
	DMK gain from AIADMK		Swing	n/a

2011 results

Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election 2011: Salem North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DMDK	R. Mohan Raj	88,956	54.46
	INC	Jayaprakash G	59,591	36.48
style="background-color: Template:Ulzaipali Makkal Katchy/meta/color; width: 5px;" |	[[Ulzaipali Makkal Katchy|Template:Ulzaipali Makkal Katchy/meta/shortname]]	Chinnusamy C	4,517	2.77
	BJP	Mohan D	4,133	2.53
style="background-color: Template:Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi/meta/color; width: 5px;" |	[[Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi|Template:Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi/meta/shortname]]	Venkatesan V	1,965	1.20
	RPI	Kambar G	804	0.49
	Independent	Shahjahan M A	579	0.35
	BSP	rameshbabu K R	541	0.33
	Independent	Raja A	429	0.26
	Independent	Mohan D	403	0.25
	Independent	Yuvaraja V	392	0.24
	Independent	Chinnapaiyan K R	265	0.16
	Independent	Mohamed Iliyas A	218	0.13
	Independent	Muthusamy P	206	0.13
	Independent	Kannan T N	194	0.12
	Independent	Chakravarthy C	163	0.10
Majority			29,365	17.97	n/a
Turnout			163,356	74.48
	DMDK gain from [[{{{loser}}}|{{Template:{{{loser}}}/meta/shortname}}]]		Swing	n/a