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Elections in Puducherry are conducted to elect the members of Puducherry Vidhan Sabha and the members of the Lok Sabha. There are 30 Vidhan Sabha constituencies and 1 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state.^[1]^[2]

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.^[3]

Year	Election	Winning party/coalition	Council of ministers	President	Chief commissioner
1955	First Election^[4]^[3]	Congress Party	Edouard Goubert, Chandrasekhara Chettiar, Mohammed Yusoof, S. Dakshinamoorthy Mudaliar and Thiagraja Naicker		Kewal Singh
1959	Second Election^[5]	Congress Party	V. Venkatasubba Reddiar, Edouard Goubert, C. E. Barathan, Gouroussamy Pillai, P. Shanmugam and Mohamed Ismail Maricar	A. S. Gangeyan	L. R. S. Singh

Vidhan Sabha elections

The 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^[6] and its members were deemed to have been elected to the Assembly.^[3]^:966 The elections for the Puducherry Vidhan Sabha held since 1964.

Year	Election	Winning party/coalition	Chief Minister	Assembly
1963	No election^[3]^:977	Congress Party	Edouard Goubert	First
1964	First Election	Congress Party	V. Venkatasubha Reddiar/M. O. H. Farook/V. Venkatasubha Reddiar,	Second
1969	Second Election	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	M. O. H. Farook	Third
1974	Third Election	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Subramanyan Ramaswamy	Fourth
1977	Fourth Election	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Subramanyan Ramaswamy	Fifth
1980	Fifth Election	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	M. D. R. Ramachandran	Sixth
1985	Sixth Election	Indian National Congress	M. O. H. Farook	Sevent
1990	Seventh Election	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	M. D. R. Ramachandran	Eighth
1991	Eighth Election	Indian National Congress	V. Vaithilingam	Ninth
1996	Ninth Election	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/Indian National Congress	R. V. Janakiraman/P. Shanmugam	Tenth
2001	Tenth Election	Indian National Congress	P. Shanmugam/N. Rangaswamy	Eleventh
2006	Eleventh Election	Indian National Congress	N. Rangaswamy/V. Vaithilingam	Twelfth
2011	Twelfth Election	All India N.R. Congress	N. Rangaswamy	Thirteenth
2016	Thirteenth Election	Indian National Congress	V. Narayanasamy	Fourteenth

Lok Sabha elections

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

Year	Lok Sabha Election
1967	Fourth Lok Sabha	Indian National Congress
1971	Fifth Lok Sabha	Indian National Congress
1977	Sixth Lok Sabha	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1980	Seventh Lok Sabha	Indian National Congress (Indira)
1984	Eighth Lok Sabha	Indian National Congress
1989	Ninth Lok Sabha	Indian National Congress
1991	Tenth Lok Sabha	Indian National Congress
1996	Eleventh Lok Sabha	Indian National Congress
1998	Twelfth Lok Sabha	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1999	Thirteenth Lok Sabha	Indian National Congress
2004	Fourteenth Lok Sabha	Pattali Makkal Katchi
2009	Fifteenth Lok Sabha	Indian National Congress
2014	Sixteenth Lok Sabha	All India N.R. Congress
2019	Seventeenth Lok Sabha	Indian National Congress

References

↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1964, to the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry". Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 23 June 2019.
↑ Puducherry Vidhan Sabha Election Results
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 Cabinet Responsibility to Legislature. Lok Sabha Secretariat. 2004. ISBN 9788120004009. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
↑ "India, A Reference Annual 1956". Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. Publications Division. 1956. p. 494.
↑ "India A Reference Annual 1962". Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. Publications Division. 1962. p. 499.
↑ "The Government of Union Territories Act, 1963" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Retrieved 8 June 2020.

[1] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1964, to the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry". Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 23 June 2019.

[2] Puducherry Vidhan Sabha Election Results

[ref2004-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 Cabinet Responsibility to Legislature. Lok Sabha Secretariat. 2004. ISBN 9788120004009. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

[4] "India, A Reference Annual 1956". Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. Publications Division. 1956. p. 494.

[5] "India A Reference Annual 1962". Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. Publications Division. 1962. p. 499.

[1963Act-6] "The Government of Union Territories Act, 1963" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Retrieved 8 June 2020.

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v t e Elections in Puducherry
General elections	1967 1971 1977 1980 1984 1989 1991 1996 1998 1999 2004 2009 2014 2019
Legislative Assembly	1946 1951 1955 1959 1964 1969 1974 1977 1980 1985 1990 1991 1996 2001 2006 2011 2016 2021
Local elections	... 2011 2021
See also: Elections in India

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