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Salem #15GEN
Won
Semmalai S
AIADM All India Anna Dravida Munnetra KazhagamMargin
46,491 5.2 pp
votes
over Thangkabalu K V (INC)
The contest
Electors11,71,839
Votes polled8,95,888
Turnout76.5%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electorsnot recorded
Female electorsnot recorded
Sex ratio
not recorded
Poll date16 Apr 2009
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Semmalai S | AIADM | 3,80,460 | 42.50% | |
| 2 | Thangkabalu K V | INC | 3,33,969 | 37.30% | |
| 3 | Alagaapuram R Mohanraj | DMDK | 1,20,325 | 13.40% | |
| 4 | Selladurai C | IND | 23,056 | 2.60% | |
| 5 | Balasubramani R | BSP | 4,858 | 0.50% | |
| 6 | Nandagopal K | IND | 4,451 | 0.50% | |
| 7 | Nallathambi Po | IND | 4,441 | 0.50% | |
| 8 | Ashok Samraj M | KNMK | 3,642 | 0.40% | |
| 9 | Dhamodharan N B | IND | 3,111 | 0.30% | |
| 10 | Periyasamy T | IND | 3,010 | 0.30% | |
| 11 | Annadurai M | AIVP | 2,041 | 0.20% | |
| 12 | Shahjahan M A | IND | 1,832 | 0.20% | |
| 13 | Andhraprakash A | PPI | 1,713 | 0.20% | |
| 14 | Chinnan N | IND | 1,297 | 0.10% | |
| 15 | Kowsalya C | IND | 1,059 | 0.10% | |
| 16 | Muthusamy P | IND | 1,026 | 0.10% | |
| 17 | Jayavenugopal C D | IND | 949 | 0.10% | |
| 18 | Govanam Thangavel K S | IND | 854 | 0.10% | |
| 19 | Krishnan M | IND | 775 | 0.10% | |
| 20 | Ganesh M.A.S.S | AITC | 755 | 0.10% | |
| 21 | Chandrasekaran G | IND | 658 | 0.10% | |
| 22 | Maheswaran V | IND | 658 | 0.10% | |
| 23 | Muniyappan A | IND | 614 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 334, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 895,554 · NOTA n/a · published 895,888 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 2009
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