2006 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election

2006 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election

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All 30 seats to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly 16 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader N. Rangaswamy A. M. H. Nazeem A. Anbazhagan Party INC DMK AIADMK Leader's seat Thattanchavady Karaikal North Oupalam Seats before 11 7 3 Seats won 10 7 3 Seat change 1
Chief Minister before election N. Rangaswamy INC Elected Chief Minister N. Rangaswamy INC

Elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Indian Union Territory of Pondicherry took place in May 2006 to constitute the Twelfth Assembly of Pondicherry. The UPA alliance comprising Congress, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Pattali Makkal Katchi and Communist Party of India has won ^[1] and N. Rangasamy of Congress got elected as chief minister. ^[2]

Parties and alliances

Source: ^{[1] [3] [4]}

   Secular Progressive Alliance+United Progressive Alliance

Party			Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Indian National Congress	INC		N. Rangasamy	16
	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	DMK		A.M.H. Nazeem	11
	Pattali Makkal Katchi	PMK			2
	Communist Party of India	CPI			1

   All India Anna DMK-led Alliance

Party			Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	AIADMK		A. Anbazhagan	16
	Puducherry Munnetra Congress	PMC		P. Kannan	10
	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	MDMK			3
	Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi	VCK			1

Results

Source: ^[5]

	Parties	Seats
	Indian National Congress	10
	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	7
	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	3
	Pattali Makkal Katchi	2
	Puducherry Munnetra Congress	3
	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1
	Communist Party of India	1
	Independents	3

Elected members

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Muthialpet	Nandha T. Saravanan		DMK	11,658	58.54	A. Kasilingam		AIADMK	6,779	34.04	4,879	24.50
2	Cassicade	K. Lakshminarayanan		PMC	4,942	49.05	G. Ravichandiran		INC	4,726	46.90	216	2.14
3	Raj Bhavan	S. P. Sivakumar		DMK	2,590	66.07	P. K. Devadoss		PMC	1,094	27.91	1,496	38.16
4	Bussy	Anand		PMC	2,423	54.12	Annibal Kennedy		DMK	1,952	43.60	471	10.52
5	Oupalam	Anbalagan, A.		AIADMK	9,200	58.07	U. C. Arumugam		DMK	6,131	38.70	3,069	19.37
6	Orleampeth	R. Siva		DMK	8,509	52.67	G. Nehru @ Kuppusamy		IND	6,549	40.54	1,960	12.13
7	Nellithope	Om Sakthi Sekar @ S. Sekar		AIADMK	9,933	51.69	R. V. Janakiraman		DMK	8,490	44.18	1,443	7.51
8	Modeliarpeth	Dr. M. A. S. Subramanian		DMK	10,783	37.26	P. Kannan		PMC	9,379	32.41	1,404	4.85
9	Ariankuppam	R. K. R. Anantharaman		PMK	13,314	51.47	T. Djeamourthy		PMC	11,512	44.50	1,802	6.97
10	Embalom (SC)	R. Rajaraman		DMK	7,208	40.57	L. Periyasamy		IND	6,683	37.62	525	2.96
11	Nettapakkam	V. Vaithilingam		INC	9,166	52.24	V. Muthunarayanan		PMC	7,830	44.63	1,336	7.61
12	Kuruvinatham	R. Radhakrishnan		INC	13,020	74.71	B. Navaneetha Kannan		JD(S)	3,557	20.41	9,463	54.30
13	Bahour (SC)	M. Kandasamy		INC	11,164	60.11	P. Rajavelu		PMC	6,888	37.09	4,276	23.02
14	Thirubuvana (SC)	Angalane		INC	10,534	49.91	Komala S.		MDMK	6,378	30.22	4,156	19.69
15	Mannadipeth	P. Arulmurugan		PMK	8,193	42.43	N. Rajaram		IND	6,386	33.07	1,807	9.36
16	Ossudu (SC)	A. Elumalai		IND	6,417	34.58	P. Soundiraradjou Ponnas		IND	3,755	20.24	2,662	14.35
17	Villenour	J. Narayanasamy		IND	11,950	49.38	C. Djeacoumar		INC	10,441	43.14	1,509	6.24
18	Ozhukarai	A. Namassivayam		INC	14,072	48.14	K. Natarajan		AIADMK	12,824	43.87	1,248	4.27
19	Thattanchavady	N. Rangasamy		INC	27,024	90.23	T. Gunasekaran		AIADMK	2,026	6.76	24,998	83.47
20	Reddiarpalayam	R. Viswanathan		CPI	17,314	50.43	A. M. Krishnamurthy		AIADMK	13,925	40.56	3,389	9.87
21	Lawspet	M. O. H. F. Shahjahan		INC	17,944	43.06	G. Anandhamurugesan		AIADMK	10,986	26.37	6,958	16.70
22	Cotchery	Omalingam V.		AIADMK	10,116	50.25	P. R. N. Thirumurugan		INC	9,094	45.17	1,022	5.08
23	Karaikal	A. M. H. Nazeem		DMK	5,742	45.20	A. J. Assana		DMDK	5,551	43.70	191	1.50
24	Karaikal South	V. K. Ganapathy		PMC	7,970	55.06	A. V. Subramanian		INC	6,231	43.05	1,739	12.01
25	Neravy-Grand Aldee	V. M. C. Sivakkumar		DMK	4,946	31.41	V. M. C. V. Ganapathy		IND	4,762	30.24	184	1.17
26	Tirunallar	P. R. Siva		MDMK	7,237	49.69	Kamalakkannan R.		INC	6,952	47.73	285	1.96
27	Neduncadu (SC)	A. Marimuthu		IND	6,143	43.47	Chandirakasu M.		INC	5,306	37.54	837	5.92
28	Mahe	E. Valsaraj		INC	5,647	55.76	Adv. T. Ashok Kumar		CPI(M)	3,700	36.54	1,947	19.23
29	Palloor	A. V. Sreedharan		INC	5,987	53.37	T. K. Gangadharan		CPI(M)	4,512	40.22	1,475	13.15
30	Yanam	Malladi Krishna Rao		INC	11,763	64.93	Rakshaharikrishna		IND	5,457	30.12	6,306	34.81

See also

• Government of Puducherry
• Puducherry Legislative Assembly
• Pondicherry Representative Assembly
• List of chief ministers of Puducherry
• List of speakers of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly
• List of lieutenant governors of Puducherry
• 2011 Puducherry Legislative Assembly election

References

1. "After 6 years, Pondicherry is back in coalition mode". The Times of India. 11 May 2006. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
2. "N Rangasamy appointed Pondicherry CM". Rediff. 13 May 2006. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
3. "Cong, PMK ink poll pact in Pondy". oneindia. 14 April 2006. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
4. S., Viswanathan (2 June 2006). "Three in a row". Frontline. Retrieved 30 June 2022.{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
5. "Pondicherry Assembly Election Results in 2006". Elections. Retrieved 28 June 2022.