2009 Indian general election in Puducherry

Indian general election in Puducherry, 2009

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1 seat
Turnout	79.81% ( 3.74)
First party Second party   Leader V. Vaithilingam J. Jayalalithaa Party INC AIADMK Alliance UPA+DPA TF Seats won 1 0 Seat change Popular vote 300,391 208,619 Percentage 49.41% 34.32%

The 2009 Indian general election in Puducherry, occurred for 1 seat in the territory. The seat is part of the Puducherry constituency. The UPA, fielded Narayanswamy, of the Indian National Congress, while the Third Front fielded PMK incumbent candidate M. Ramadass. Due to the high Vanniyar population in Puducherry, many expected that it will be a bitter contest, unlike the previous election, when PMK was part of the UPA. The results reflected the general trend shown in Tamil Nadu, where DMK and its alliance UPA, were able to beat its rival ADMK and its allies which are part of the Third Front. The results here also reflects the poor performance of PMK in this election, losing all 7 seats, it contested in Tamil Nadu, as opposed to winning all of its 6 seats in the last election.

Candidates

Constituency
		UPA			UNPA			Others
1	Puducherry		INC	V. Narayanasamy		PMK	M. Ramadass		DMDK	K. A. U. Asanaa
									BJP	M. Visweswaran

Full Results

Source: Election Commission of India ^[1]

2009 Indian general elections: Puducherry ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	V. Narayanasamy	300,391	49.41	N/A
	PMK	M. Ramadass	208,619	34.32	−15.63
	DMDK	K. A. U. Asanaa	52,638	8.66	N/A
	BJP	M. Visweswaran	13,442	2.21	−33.44
	Independent	M. Chittibabu	5,103	0.84	N/A
	Independent	V. Lingamurthy	4,179	0.69	N/A
	BSP	M. Somasundaram	3,697	0.61	+0.06
	Independent	Sivaraman V.	2,439	0.40	N/A
	Independent	Kaliamurthy K.	2,074	0.34	N/A
	Independent	V. Rajendran	1,810	0.30	N/A
	Independent	Manimaran	1,532	0.25	N/A
	Independent	V. Saravanan	1,425	0.23	N/A
	Independent	Veeramuthu A.	1,239	0.20	N/A
	CPI(ML)L	S. Balasubramaniam	839	0.14	−0.14
	Independent	G. Subramaniyan	757	0.12	N/A
	Independent	V. Ramamurthy	662	0.11	−0.21
	Independent	A. Rajasekar	656	0.11	N/A
	Pyramid Party of India	Pradeep Aniruddh	627	0.10	N/A
	Independent	Arunachalam K.	597	0.10	N/A
	Kamraj Desiya Congress	S. Govindaswamy	570	0.09	N/A
	JMM	S. Gnanavel	456	0.08	N/A
	Independent	P. Vijayabaskar	449	0.07	N/A
	Independent	R. Narayanan	422	0.07	N/A
	Independent	Murugaiyan K. S.	378	0.06	N/A
	Independent	Muppadai Mathimaharaja	378	0.06	N/A
	Independent	I. M. Sekar	375	0.06	N/A
	Independent	Mohamed Yousuf S. A.	298	0.05	N/A
Margin of victory			91,772	15.09	+0.79
Turnout			607,948	79.74	+3.67
	INC gain from PMK		Swing
	UPA gain from TF		Swing

References

1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2009.
2. "Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. pp. 196–197. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2014.

See also

Brisk polling in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry