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	\|[[1967 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Fourth Lok Sabha]]		\|[[1967 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Fourth Lok Sabha]]
	! style="background-color: {{INC~~/meta/color~~}}" \|		! style="background-color: {{party color\|INC}}" \|
	\|Indian National Congress		\|Indian National Congress
	\|-		\|-
	\|1971		\|1971
	\|[[1971 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Fifth Lok Sabha]]		\|[[1971 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Fifth Lok Sabha]]
	! style="background-color: {{INC~~/meta/color~~}}" \|		! style="background-color: {{party color\|INC}}" \|
	\|Indian National Congress		\|Indian National Congress
	\|-		\|-
	\|1977		\|1977
	\|[[1977 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Sixth Lok Sabha]]		\|[[1977 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Sixth Lok Sabha]]
	! style="background-color: {{AIADMK~~/meta/color~~}}" \|		! style="background-color: {{party color\|AIADMK}}" \|
	\|[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]		\|[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
	\|-		\|-
	\|1980		\|1980
	\|[[1980 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Seventh Lok Sabha]]		\|[[1980 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Seventh Lok Sabha]]
	! style="background-color: {{Indian National Congress (Indira)~~/meta/color~~}}" \|		! style="background-color: {{party color\|Indian National Congress (Indira)}}" \|
	\|[[Indian National Congress (Indira)]]		\|[[Indian National Congress (Indira)]]
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	\|1984		\|1984
	\|[[1984 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Eighth Lok Sabha]]		\|[[1984 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Eighth Lok Sabha]]
	! style="background-color: {{INC~~/meta/color~~}}" \|		! style="background-color: {{party color\|INC}}" \|
	\|Indian National Congress		\|Indian National Congress
	\|-		\|-
	\|1989		\|1989
	\|[[1989 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Ninth Lok Sabha]]		\|[[1989 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Ninth Lok Sabha]]
	! style="background-color: {{INC~~/meta/color~~}}" \|		! style="background-color: {{party color\|INC}}" \|
	\|Indian National Congress		\|Indian National Congress
	\|-		\|-
	\|1991		\|1991
	\|[[1991 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Tenth Lok Sabha]]		\|[[1991 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Tenth Lok Sabha]]
	! style="background-color: {{INC~~/meta/color~~}}" \|		! style="background-color: {{party color\|INC}}" \|
	\|Indian National Congress		\|Indian National Congress
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	\|1996		\|1996
	\|[[1996 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Eleventh Lok Sabha]]		\|[[1996 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Eleventh Lok Sabha]]
	! style="background-color: {{INC~~/meta/color~~}}" \|		! style="background-color: {{party color\|INC}}" \|
	\|Indian National Congress		\|Indian National Congress
	\|-		\|-
	\|1998		\|1998
	\|[[1998 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Twelfth Lok Sabha]]		\|[[1998 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Twelfth Lok Sabha]]
	! style="background-color: {{Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam~~/meta/color~~}}" \|		! style="background-color: {{party color\|Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam}}" \|
	\|[[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]		\|[[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
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	\|1999		\|1999
	\|[[1999 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Thirteenth Lok Sabha]]		\|[[1999 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Thirteenth Lok Sabha]]
	! style="background-color: {{INC~~/meta/color~~}}" \|		! style="background-color: {{party color\|INC}}" \|
	\|Indian National Congress		\|Indian National Congress
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	\|2004		\|2004
	\|[[2004 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Fourteenth Lok Sabha]]		\|[[2004 Indian general election in Pondicherry\|Fourteenth Lok Sabha]]
	! style="background-color: {{Pattali Makkal Katchi~~/meta/color~~}}" \|		! style="background-color: {{party color\|Pattali Makkal Katchi}}" \|
	\|[[Pattali Makkal Katchi]]		\|[[Pattali Makkal Katchi]]
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	\|[[2009 Indian general election in Puducherry\|Fifteenth Lok Sabha]]		\|[[2009 Indian general election in Puducherry\|Fifteenth Lok Sabha]]
	! style="background-color: {{INC~~/meta/color~~}}" \|		! style="background-color: {{party color\|INC}}" \|
	\|[[Indian National Congress]]		\|[[Indian National Congress]]
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	\|2014		\|2014
	\|[[2014 Indian general election in Puducherry\|Sixteenth Lok Sabha]]		\|[[2014 Indian general election in Puducherry\|Sixteenth Lok Sabha]]
	! style="background-color: {{All India N.R. Congress~~/meta/color~~}}" \|		! style="background-color: {{party color\|All India N.R. Congress}}" \|
	\|[[All India N.R. Congress]]		\|[[All India N.R. Congress]]
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	\|2019		\|2019
	\|[[2019 Indian general election in Puducherry\|Seventeenth Lok Sabha]]		\|[[2019 Indian general election in Puducherry\|Seventeenth Lok Sabha]]
	! style="background-color: {{INC~~/meta/color~~}}" \|		! style="background-color: {{party color\|INC}}" \|
	\|[[Indian National Congress]]		\|[[Indian National Congress]]
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>Bsskchaitanya: /* Vidhan Sabha elections */

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Vidhan Sabha elections

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{{more citations needed|date=February 2020}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2020}}
[[File:Puducherry Electoral Constituencies Map.svg|thumb|Assembly constituency map]]
'''Elections in [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]]''' are conducted to elect the members of [[Puducherry Legislative Assembly|Puducherry Vidhan Sabha]] and the members of the [[Lok Sabha]]. There are 30 Vidhan Sabha constituencies and 1 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state.<ref>"[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/SR_KeyHighLights/SE_1964/StatReport_PY_64.pdf Statistical Report on General Election, 1964, to the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry]". Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 23 June 2019.</ref><ref>[http://www.elections.in/pondicherry/assembly-constituencies/ Puducherry Vidhan Sabha Election Results]</ref>

==Pondicherry Representative Assembly elections==
After the de facto merger on 1 November 1954 and before the legal integration with the Indian Union on 16 August 1962, general elections were held in 1955 and 1959. So. the first general elections to the Pondicherry Representative Assembly were held in 1955 from July 18 to 23.<ref name="ref2004"/>

{| class=wikitable
!Year
!Election
!Winning party/coalition
!Council of ministers
!President
!Chief commissioner
|-
|1955
|[[1955 Pondicherry Representative Assembly election|First Election]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.100486|title=India, A Reference Annual 1956|page=494|work= Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India|publisher=Publications Division|year=1956}}</ref><ref name="ref2004"/>
|[[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]]
|'''[[Edouard Goubert]]''', Chandrasekhara Chettiar, Mohammed Yusoof,<br> S. Dakshinamoorthy Mudaliar and Thiagraja Naicker
|
|[[Kewal Singh]]
|-
|1959
|[[1959 Pondicherry Representative Assembly election|Second Election]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.100489|title=India A Reference Annual 1962|page=499|work= Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India|publisher=Publications Division|year=1962}}</ref>
|[[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]]
|'''[[V. Venkatasubba Reddiar]]''', [[Edouard Goubert]], C. E. Barathan,<br>Gouroussamy Pillai, [[P. Shanmugam]] and Mohamed Ismail Maricar
|A. S. Gangeyan
|L. R. S. Singh
|}

==Vidhan Sabha elections==
The [[Pondicherry Representative Assembly|Representative Assembly]] was converted into the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry on 1 July 1963 as per Section 54(3) of '''The Union Territories Act, 1963'''<ref name="1963Act">{{cite web|url=https://rajnivas.py.gov.in/rti/governmentunionterritoriesact1963.pdf|title=The Government of Union Territories Act, 1963|publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India|accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref> and its members were deemed to have been elected to the Assembly.<ref name="ref2004"/>{{rp|966}} The elections for the Puducherry Vidhan Sabha held since 1964.
{| class=wikitable
!Year
!Election
!Winning party/coalition
!Chief Minister
!Assembly
|-
|1963
|No election<ref name="ref2004">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DFqbAAAAMAAJ|title=Cabinet Responsibility to Legislature|work= G. C. Malhotra|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat|year=2004|isbn=9788120004009}}</ref>{{rp|977}}
|[[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]]
|[[Edouard Goubert]]
|[[1st Puducherry Assembly|First]]
|-
|1964
|[[1964 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election|First Election]]
|[[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]]
|[[V. Venkatasubha Reddiar]]/[[M. O. H. Farook]]/[[V. Venkatasubha Reddiar]],
|[[2nd Puducherry Assembly|Second]]
|-
|1969
|[[1969 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election|Second Election]]
|[[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
|[[M. O. H. Farook]]
|Third
|-
|1974
|[[1974 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election|Third Election]]
|[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
|[[Subramanyan Ramaswamy]]
|Fourth
|-
|1977
|[[1977 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election|Fourth Election]]
|[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
|[[Subramanyan Ramaswamy]]
|Fifth
|-
|1980
|[[1980 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election|Fifth Election]]
|[[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
|[[M. D. R. Ramachandran]]
|Sixth
|-
|1985
|[[1985 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election|Sixth Election]]
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|[[M. O. H. Farook]]
|Sevent
|-
|1990
|[[1990 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election|Seventh Election]]
|[[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
|[[M. D. R. Ramachandran]]
|Eighth
|-
|1991
|[[1991 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election|Eighth Election]]
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|[[V. Vaithilingam]]
|Ninth
|-
|1996
|[[1996 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election|Ninth Election]]
|[[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]/[[Indian National Congress]]
|[[R. V. Janakiraman]]/[[P. Shanmugam]]
|Tenth
|-
|2001
|[[2001 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election|Tenth Election]]
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|[[P. Shanmugam]]/[[N. Rangaswamy]]
|Eleventh
|-
|2006
|[[2006 Pudcherry Legislative Assembly election|Eleventh Election]]
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|[[N. Rangaswamy]]/[[V. Vaithilingam]]
|Twelfth
|-
|2011
|[[2011 Puducherry Legislative Assembly election|Twelfth Election]]
|[[All India N.R. Congress]]
|[[N. Rangaswamy]]
|Thirteenth
|-
|2016
|[[2016 Puducherry Legislative Assembly election|Thirteenth Election]]
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|[[V. Narayanasamy]]
|[[14th Puducherry Assembly|Fourteenth]]
|-
|}

== Lok Sabha elections ==
The elections for the Lok Sabha seats in Puducherry held since 1977.

{| class=wikitable
!Year
!Lok Sabha Election
!colspan=2|Winning party/coalition
|-
|1967
|[[1967 Indian general election in Pondicherry|Fourth Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}" |
|Indian National Congress
|-
|1971
|[[1971 Indian general election in Pondicherry|Fifth Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}" |
|Indian National Congress
|-
|1977
|[[1977 Indian general election in Pondicherry|Sixth Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{AIADMK/meta/color}}" |
|[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
|-
|1980
|[[1980 Indian general election in Pondicherry|Seventh Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{Indian National Congress (Indira)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress (Indira)]]
|-
|1984
|[[1984 Indian general election in Pondicherry|Eighth Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}" |
|Indian National Congress
|-
|1989
|[[1989 Indian general election in Pondicherry|Ninth Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}" |
|Indian National Congress
|-
|1991
|[[1991 Indian general election in Pondicherry|Tenth Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}" |
|Indian National Congress
|-
|1996
|[[1996 Indian general election in Pondicherry|Eleventh Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}" |
|Indian National Congress
|-
|1998
|[[1998 Indian general election in Pondicherry|Twelfth Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color}}" |
|[[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
|-
|1999
|[[1999 Indian general election in Pondicherry|Thirteenth Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}" |
|Indian National Congress
|-
|2004
|[[2004 Indian general election in Pondicherry|Fourteenth Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{Pattali Makkal Katchi/meta/color}}" |
|[[Pattali Makkal Katchi]]
|-
|2009
|[[2009 Indian general election in Puducherry|Fifteenth Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|2014
|[[2014 Indian general election in Puducherry|Sixteenth Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{All India N.R. Congress/meta/color}}" |
|[[All India N.R. Congress]]
|-
|2019
|[[2019 Indian general election in Puducherry|Seventeenth Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color: {{INC/meta/color}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Puducherry elections}}
{{Indian elections |state=collapsed}}

[[Category:Elections in Puducherry| ]]