Salem (South) is an Assembly constituency in the Salem district, in the North region of Tamil Nadu.
The Salem (South) constituency went to polls on April 6, 2021.
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In the 2016 Assembly elections, Salem (South) was won by Sakthivel AB of AIADMK.
Before that, in the 2011 elections, the seat was held by MK Selvaraju of AIADMK.
In the 2016 assembly polls, Sakthivel AB garnered 1,01,696 votes, securing over 51.39 percent of the vote share, and winning the seat by a margin of 30,453 votes.
In percentage terms, the victory margin was 15.39 percent.
The constituency polled 1,97,935 votes in the 2016 Tamil Nadu assembly polls with a voter turnout of 75.19 percent.
The Salem (South) constituency has a literacy level of 73.23 percent.
A total of 20 candidates stood in the 2016 elections.