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Film star Radha Ravi won the seat for the ruling party by a margin of 11,925 votes. He polled 65,868 votes against the 53,943 for DMK's M Subramaniam.
The results of Saidapet assumed significance as DMK chief M Karunanidhi represented it in 1967 and 1971.
The by-election to Saidapet, held on May 31, was marred by complaints of rigging, following which the Election Commission kept the counting in abeyance.
After an enquiry, the EC ordered re-polls in 58 booths out of a total of 850. The re-polling took place on Thursday and the counting was taken up on Friday.
With this, the AIADMK's strength in the 234-member Tamil Nadu assembly has gone up to 135.
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