2013 Yercaud By-Election Results Sunday Dec 08,2013

The All India Anna Dravida Munetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) candidate P. Saroja on Sunday won the Yercaud by-election, securing 1,42,771 votes. Her immediate rival V. Maran of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam secured 64,655 votes

The margin of votes (78,116 votes) polled by P Saroja was more than twice that of her husband C. Perumal whose death in July necessitated the by-election. In 2011, Perumal won the seat by a margin of 37,582 votes

The newly-elected MLA P Saroja thanked Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for announcing her as the candidate. She was addressing newsmen at the counting centre. “The victory is her (CM’s) effort and not mine. I also thank the voters,” she said and reiterated that she will complete the unfulfilled works that were left behind by her husband and former MLA C. Perumal.

Chief Minister and AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa on Sunday described her party’s huge margin in the by-poll to Yercaud constituency as a mark of acknowledgement of people’s approval for various welfare programmes implemented by her government in the last two and a half years

Note
This was the fourth byelection since the AIADMK returned to power in May 2011 and the party had won all the by-elections