Salem MLA list 2026 and election results

Salem's 11 MLAs, elected April 2026

AC	Seat	MLA elected	Margin	Runner-up	Turnout
81	Gangavalli (SC)	A. Nallathambi AIADMK	14,404	DMK	90.1%	Booths
82	Attur (SC)	A. P. Jayasankaran AIADMK	15,318	TVK	91.3%	Booths
83	Yercaud (ST)	P. Usharani AIADMK	2,189	TVK	92.9%	Booths
84	Omalur	R. Mani AIADMK	14,539	TVK	92.0%	Booths
85	Mettur	G. Venkatachalam AIADMK	19,105	DMK	90.4%	Booths
86	Edappadi	Edappadi K. Palaniswami AIADMK	98,110	IND	93.4%	Booths
87	Sankari	S. Vetrivel AIADMK	9,517	TVK	93.6%	Booths
88	Salem (West)	S. Lakshmanan TVK	74,867	PMK	90.9%	Booths
89	Salem (North)	K. Sivakumar TVK	14,034	DMK	88.3%	Booths
90	Salem (South)	A. Vijay Tamilan Parthiban TVK	33,369	DMK	91.6%	Booths
91	Veerapandi	M. S. Palanivel TVK	4,071	AIADMK	94.2%	Booths

Salem in numbers

Rank among the 38 districts, 1 is the highest; = means tied. Median is the median district. Turnout is the Election Commission's count of votes (postal votes included) as a share of electors.
Measure	Salem	Rank	Median
Seats	11	2nd	6
Electors	27,80,356	3rd	13,16,624
Turnout	91.8%	3rd	86.5%
Women among electors	50.3%	36th	51.1%
Median winning margin, votes	14,539	11th	9,838
Seats that changed party since 2021	5 of 11	30th	71%
NOTA share of votes	0.43%	11th	0.38%
Closest seat	Yercaud, won by 2,189 votes
Biggest margin	Edappadi, won by 98,110

Vote share in Salem, 2026 against 2021

TVK32.3% 2026— 2021
AIADMK31.5% 202642.3% 2021
DMK19.7% 202636.0% 2021
PMK3.5% 20268.4% 2021
DMDK3.5% 20260.3% 2021
NTK3.0% 20264.5% 2021
IND3.0% 20261.0% 2021
INC2.0% 20263.6% 2021

Share of the 25,51,729 votes counted in the district's seats in 2026 (ECI, postal votes and NOTA included) and of 24,14,875 in 2021 (ECI 2021 Detailed Results; allies who fought on a big party's symbol are counted with it). TVK did not contest in 2021.

Seats that changed party since 2021 (5 of 11)

Mettur 2021 PMK → 2026 AIADMK
Salem (West) 2021 PMK → 2026 TVK
Salem (North) 2021 DMK → 2026 TVK
Salem (South) 2021 AIADMK → 2026 TVK
Veerapandi 2021 AIADMK → 2026 TVK

What each seat is

GangavalliGangavalli is an SC-reserved constituency in Salem district sitting on the southern edge along the Vasishta river.
AtturAttur is a taluk town in eastern Salem district, set in a valley between the Kalvarayan and Chitteri hills, and it is the trading hub for the surrounding rice and sago belt.
YercaudYercaud (AC 83) is a Scheduled-Tribe-reserved hill seat in Salem district, sitting on the Shevaroy range at 1,515 m.
OmalurOmalur is a taluk town between Salem city and the Yercaud foothills, sitting on NH-44 and famous for its silver anklet trade and the Omalur cattle fair.
MetturMettur is the dam town on the Kaveri at the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border, home to the Stanley Reservoir, Mettur Thermal Power Station and a cluster of chemical and rayon factories.
EdappadiEdappadi is an assembly constituency in the western Salem belt, in the heart of TN's Kongu country.
SankariSankari, also known as Sangagiri, sits on NH-44 between Salem and Erode and is famed for its hilltop fort built in the Tipu Sultan era and its truck-tyre retreading industry on the highway.
Salem (West)Salem (West) (AC 88) covers the western half of Salem city, the urban core of Tamil Nadu's 'Steel City'.
Salem (North)Salem (North) is the city seat carved out of Salem Corporation's northern wards, created in the 2008 delimitation.
Salem (South)Salem (South) (AC 90) covers the southern half of Salem city, the urban core of Tamil Nadu's 'Steel City'.
VeerapandiVeerapandi is a peri-urban constituency on Salem's southern flank, taking in Veerapandi town panchayat, Ayothiyapattanam and the textile and rice-mill belt running toward Namakkal.

Salem MLAs and 2026 election results

Salem's 11 MLAs, elected April 2026

Salem in numbers

Seats that changed party since 2021 (5 of 11)

What each seat is

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