 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All 30 seats to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly 16 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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]
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
Source: [5]
| Assembly Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #k | Names | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |||
| 1 | Muthialpet | 80.97% | Nandha T. Saravanan | DMK | 11,658 | 54.44% | A. Kasilingam | AIADMK | 6,779 | 31.66% | 4,879 | ||
| 2 | Cassicade | 77.76% | K. Lakshminarayanan | PMC | 4,942 | 49.05% | G. Ravichandiran | INC | 4,726 | 46.90% | 216 | ||
| 3 | Raj Bhavan | 76.71% | S. P. Sivakumar | DMK | 2,590 | 65.95% | P. K. Devadoss | PMC | 1,094 | 27.86% | 1,496 | ||
| 4 | Bussy | 79.65% | Bussy N. Anand | PMC | 2,423 | 54.06% | Annibal Kennedy | DMK | 1,952 | 43.55% | 471 | ||
| 5 | Oupalam | 89.08% | A. Anbalagan | AIADMK | 9,200 | 58.05% | U. C. Arumugam | DMK | 6,131 | 38.68% | 3,069 | ||
| 6 | Orleampeth | 85.49% | R. Siva | DMK | 8,509 | 52.61% | G. Nehru Kuppusamy | Independent | 6,549 | 40.49% | 1,960 | ||
| 7 | Nellithope | 84.43% | Omsakthi Sekar | AIADMK | 9,933 | 51.69% | R. V. Janakiraman | DMK | 8,490 | 44.18% | 1,443 | ||
| 8 | Mudaliarpet | 87.85% | Dr. M. A. S. Subramanian | DMK | 10,783 | 37.22% | P. Kannan | PMC | 9,379 | 32.38% | 1,404 | ||
| 9 | Ariankuppam | 89.32% | R. K. R. Anantharaman | PMK | 13,314 | 51.39% | T. Jayamoorthy | PMC | 11,512 | 44.43% | 1,802 | ||
| 10 | Embalam | 89.05% | R. Rajaraman | DMK | 7,208 | 40.56% | L. Periyasamy | Independent | 6,683 | 37.61% | 525 | ||
| 11 | Nettapakkam | 90.41% | V. Vaithilingam | INC | 9,166 | 52.20% | V. Muthunarayanan | PMC | 7,830 | 44.60% | 1,336 | ||
| 12 | Kuruvinatham | 90.10% | R. Radhakrishnan | INC | 13,020 | 74.66% | B. Navaneetha Kannan | JD(S) | 3,557 | 20.40% | 9,463 | ||
| 13 | Bahour | 90.87% | M. Kandasamy | INC | 11,164 | 60.06% | P. Rajavelu | PMC | 6,888 | 37.05% | 4,276 | ||
| 14 | Thirubuvanai | 88.92% | Angalane | INC | 10,534 | 49.91% | S. Komala | MDMK | 6,378 | 30.22% | 4,156 | ||
| 15 | Mannadipet | 90.01% | P. Arulmurugan | PMK | 8,193 | 42.41% | N. Rajaram | Independent | 6,386 | 33.06% | 1,807 | ||
| 16 | Ossudu | 92.18% | Abar Elumalai | Independent | 6,417 | 34.58% | P. Soundiraradjou Ponnas | Independent | 3,755 | 20.23% | 2,662 | ||
| 17 | Villianur | 89.10% | J. Narayanasamy | Independent | 11,950 | 49.35% | C. Djeacoumar | INC | 10,441 | 43.12% | 1,509 | ||
| 18 | Ozhukarai | 88.34% | A. Namassivayam | INC | 14,072 | 48.10% | K. Natarajan | AIADMK | 12,824 | 43.83% | 1,248 | ||
| 19 | Thattanchavady | 84.30% | N. Rangaswamy | INC | 27,024 | 90.16% | T. Gunasekaran | AIADMK | 2,026 | 6.76% | 24,998 | ||
| 20 | Reddiarpalayam | 77.08% | R. Viswanathan | CPI | 17,314 | 50.43% | A. M. Krishnamurthy | AIADMK | 13,925 | 40.56% | 3,389 | ||
| 21 | Lawspet | 80.65% | M. O. H. F. Shahjahan | INC | 17,944 | 43.03% | G. Anandhamurugesan | AIADMK | 10,986 | 26.35% | 6,958 | ||
| 22 | Cotchery | 87.29% | V. Omalingam | AIADMK | 10,116 | 50.25% | P. R. N. Thirumurugan | INC | 9,094 | 45.17% | 1,022 | ||
| 23 | Karaikal North | 80.25% | A. M. H. Nazeem | DMK | 5,742 | 45.20% | A. J. Assana | DMDK | 5,551 | 43.70% | 191 | ||
| 24 | Karaikal South | 86.74% | V. K. Ganapathy | PMC | 7,970 | 55.06% | A. V. Subramanian | INC | 6,231 | 43.05% | 1,739 | ||
| 25 | Neravy T R Pattinam | 86.57% | V. M. C. Sivakumar | DMK | 4,946 | 31.41% | V. M. C. V. Ganapathy | Independent | 4,762 | 30.24% | 184 | ||
| 26 | Thirunallar | 87.85% | P. R. Siva | MDMK | 7,237 | 49.69% | R. Kamalakkannan | INC | 6,952 | 47.73% | 285 | ||
| 27 | Nedungadu | 88.40% | A. Marimuthu | Independent | 6,143 | 43.47% | M. Chandirakasu | INC | 5,306 | 37.54% | 837 | ||
| 28 | Mahe | 80.00% | E. Valsaraj | INC | 5,647 | 55.74% | T. Ashok Kumar | CPI(M) | 3,700 | 36.52% | 1,947 | ||
| 29 | Palloor | 78.14% | A. V. Sreedharan | INC | 5,987 | 53.35% | T. K. Gangadharan | CPI(M) | 4,512 | 40.20% | 1,475 | ||
| 30 | Yanam | 96.74% | Malladi Krishna Rao | INC | 11,763 | 64.89% | Raksha Harikrishna | Independent | 5,457 | 30.10% | 6,306 | ||
Natesan Krishnasamy Rangasamy is an Indian politician who is the Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Puducherry. He previously served as the chief minister from 2001 to 2006 and from 2006 to 2008 as a member of the Indian National Congress and then from 2011 to 2016 as a member of his own party, the All India N.R. Congress. He holds the record of becoming Chief Minister within three months after creating his own party and also holds the record of becoming chief minister of Puducherry for the fourth time.
Puducherry Lok Sabha constituency covers the entire Union Territory of Puducherry. Pondicherry became a union territory after the implementation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India in 1962 and changed its name to Puducherry in 2006. This constituency first held elections in 1967 and its first member of parliament (MP) was Thirumudi N. Sethuraman of the Indian National Congress.
V. Vaithilingam is an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress, who currently represents Puducherry in the Lok Sabha. He held the position as 11th Chief Minister of Pondicherry from 1991 to 1996 and 16th Chief Minister of Puducherry again from 2008 to 2011. He is a senior legislator serving eight consecutive terms.
The Puducherry Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian union territory (UT) of Puducherry, which comprises four districts: Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahé and Yanam. Out of eight union territories of India, only three have legislatures and they are Delhi, Puducherry and Jammu and Kashmir. After delimitation shortly after its formation, the Puducherry legislative assembly has 33 seats, of which 5 are reserved for candidates from scheduled castes and 3 members are nominated by the Government of India. 30 out of 33 Members are elected directly by the people on the basis of universal adult franchise and the remaining three are nominated by the central government. These nominated members enjoy same powers as elected members of the assembly.
Velu Narayanasamy is an Indian politician who served as the 10th Chief Minister of Puducherry from 2016 to 2021. He is a member of Indian National Congress political party.
The All India N.R. Congress is a regional political party formed by the Chief Minister of Puducherry, N. Rangaswamy in the Indian union territory of Puducherry. He announced the party formation on 7 February 2011 in the party's head office in Pondicherry as a breakaway from the Indian National Congress. Currently it is part of the National Democratic Alliance led by the BJP currently the ruling party of India.
A legislative assembly election was held in the Indian union territory of Puducherry 13 April 2011 to elect members from thirty constituencies in the non-contiguous territory. This election was meant to constitute the Thirteenth Assembly of Pondicherry.
The Fourteenth Assembly of Pondicherry succeeded the 13th Assembly of Pondicherry and was constituted after the victory of Indian National Congress (INC) and allies in the 2016 assembly election held on 16 May 2016.
The Fifteenth Assembly of Pondicherry succeeded the 14th Assembly of Pondicherry and was constituted after the victory of National Democratic Alliance in the 2021 assembly election that was held on April 6, 2021.
Elections to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly were held in February 1974, to elect members of the 30 constituencies in Puducherry, in India. The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam won the most seats, and its leader, S. Ramassamy was appointed as the Chief Minister of Puducherry.
Elections to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly were held in October 1977, to elect members of the 30 constituencies in Puducherry, in India. The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam won the popular vote and the most seats, and S. Ramassamy was appointed as the Chief Minister of Puducherry for his second term.
Elections to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly were held in March 1980, to elect members of the 30 constituencies in Puducherry, in India. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam won the popular vote and the most seats, and M. D. R. Ramachandran was appointed as the Chief Minister of Puducherry.
Elections to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly were held in May 1985, to elect members of the 30 constituencies in Puducherry, in India. The Indian National Congress won the popular vote and the most seats, and M. O. H. Farook was appointed as the Chief Minister of Puducherry.
Elections to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly were held in February 1990, to elect members of the 30 constituencies in Puducherry, in India. The Indian National Congress won the popular vote, and the most seats, but M. D. R. Ramachandran of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, was appointed as the Chief Minister of Puducherry. His party had an alliance with the CPI, and the Janata Dal.
Elections to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly were held in June 1991, to elect members of the 30 constituencies in Puducherry, in India. The Indian National Congress won the popular vote and the most seats, and V. Vaithilingam was appointed as the Chief Minister of Puducherry. The Indian National Congress was in an alliance with the AIADMK.
Elections to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly were held in April 1996, to elect members of the 30 constituencies in Puducherry, in India. The Indian National Congress won the most seats, but the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam won the popular vote, and R. V. Janakiraman was appointed as the Chief Minister of Puducherry.
Elections to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly were held in 1969, to elect members of the 30 constituencies in Puducherry, in India. The Indian National Congress won the popular vote and the most seats, and P. Shanmugam was appointed as the Chief Minister of Puducherry.
{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)