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Pondy Assembly bypoll : Ruling AINRC retains Thattanchavady seat

Chennai, Oct 9 (UNI) The ruling AINRC of Chief Minister N.Rangasamy on Friday retained the high-profile Thattanchavady Assembly when its nominee and former MLA Ashok Anand securing a comfortable win in the by-election held on October six.
Ashok, who had secured 13,358 votes, which works out to about 65 per cent of the total 21,756 votes polled, won by a margin of more than 8,400 votes against Congress candidate E.Vinayagam who contested as an ally of the TVK-led by Vijay and plled 4,876 votes.
The DMK's K.Sethu alias Sethuselvam secured 2,664 and finished third, while CPI nominee A.Mohammed Saleem finished a distant fourth, securing a mere 310 votes. Both the DMK and CPI candidates forfeited their deposits.
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