Puducherry (Lok Sabha constituency)
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[2] and changed its name to Puducherry in 2006.[3] This constituency first held elections in 1967 and its first member of parliament (MP) was Thirumudi N. Sethuraman of the Indian National Congress (INC).
Puducherry | |
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Lok Sabha Constituency | |
![]() Location of Puducherry (marked in red) in India | |
Incumbent | V. Vaithilingam |
Parliamentary Party | Indian National Congress |
Elected Year | 2019 |
Constituency Details | |
Established | 1967 |
Reservation | None |
Union Territory | Puducherry |
Total Electors | 973,161[1] |
Assembly Constituencies | 30: Mannadipet, Thirubuvanai, Ossudu, Mangalam, Villianur, Ozhukarai, Kadirkamam, Indira Nagar, Thattanchavady, Kamaraj Nagar, Lawspet, Kalapet, Muthialpet, Raj Bhavan, Oupalam, Orleampeth, Nellithope, Mudaliarpet, Ariankuppam, Manavely, Embalam, Nettapakkam, Bahour, Nedungadu, Thirunallar, Karaikal North, Karaikal South, Neravy T R Pattinam, Mahe and Yanam |
History of the constituencyEdit
Sethuraman represented the Indian National Congress (Organisation) in the 1971 election, which he lost to Mohan Kumaramangalam of the INC. The next election in 1977 was won by Aravinda Bala Pajanor of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK). P. Shanmugam of the INC won the 1980 election and was re-elected in 1984 and 1989. M. O. H. Farook also of the INC served two terms from 1991 to 1998. In the 1998 election, S. Arumugham of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) was elected as MP. Farook was re-elected in 1999 to serve a third term as MP. The next election in 2004 was won by M. Ramadass of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK). V. Narayanasamy of the INC was elected in 2009 and was defeated in the next election in 2014 by R. Radhakrishnan of the All India N.R. Congress. Radhakrishnan's victory was the first time that the Lok Sabha seat was won by a member of a Puducherry regional party.[4] In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections Indian National Congress candidate V. Vaithilingam defeated All India N.R. Congress candidate Dr. Narayanasamy Kesavan by a record margin of 1,97,025 votes, this margin is the highest in the electoral history of Puducherry Parliamentary Constituency. Indian National Congress is the most successful party in this constituency by winning 10 out of 14 elections, in the other 4 elections, 2 times in 1977 and 2004 Indian National Congress party's alliance partners All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) won respectively.
Prior to independence, the colony sent a member to the French National Assembly.
Assembly segmentsEdit
The constituency presently comprises all the thirty segments of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly.[5]
Members of ParliamentEdit
Election resultsEdit
General election 1967Edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Thirumudi N. Sethuraman | 63,286 | 39.83 | ||
Independent | S. Sadagopan | 52,861 | 33.27 | ||
Peoples Front | K. Subbiah | 42,725 | 26.89 | ||
Margin of victory | 10,425 | 6.56 | |||
Turnout | 162,193 | 74.85 | |||
INC win (new seat) |
General election 1971Edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Mohan Kumaramangalam | 112,714 | 66.27 | +26.44 | |
style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress (Organisation)/meta/color; width: 5px;" | | [[Indian National Congress (Organisation)|Template:Indian National Congress (Organisation)/meta/shortname]] | Thirumudi N. Sethuraman | 47,550 | 27.96 | N/A |
Independent | A. Balasubramanian | 6,745 | 3.97 | N/A | |
Independent | D. Krishnasamy | 3,079 | 1.81 | N/A | |
Margin of victory | 65,164 | 38.31 | +31.75 | ||
Turnout | 172,992 | 70.10 | -4.75 | ||
INC hold | Swing | +26.44 |
General election 1977Edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AIADMK | Aravinda Bala Pajanor | 115,302 | 53.32 | N/A | |
style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress (Organisation)/meta/color; width: 5px;" | | [[Indian National Congress (Organisation)|Template:Indian National Congress (Organisation)/meta/shortname]] | Ansari Duraisamy | 96,101 | 44.44 | +16.48 |
Independent | Ramu alias Subramanian N. | 3,921 | 1.81 | N/A | |
Independent | Gadjindra Baskar | 920 | 0.43 | N/A | |
Margin of victory | 19,201 | 8.88 | -29.43 | ||
Turnout | 219,560 | 73.63 | +3.53 | ||
AIADMK gain from INC | Swing |
General election 1980Edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
[[Indian National Congress (Indira)|Template:Indian National Congress (Indira)/meta/shortname]] | P. Shanmugam | 164,589 | 66.45 | N/A | |
JP | M. R. Lakshminarayanan | 66,025 | 26.66 | N/A | |
[[Janata Party (Secular)|Template:Janata Party (Secular)/meta/shortname]] | P. Devaraj | 17,067 | 6.89 | N/A | |
Margin of victory | 98,564 | 39.79 | +30.91 | ||
Turnout | 256,539 | 80.36 | +6.73 | ||
Indian National Congress (Indira) gain from AIADMK | Swing |
General election 1984Edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | P. Shanmugam | 159,376 | 58.86 | -7.59 | |
DMK | C. P. Thirunavukkarasu | 97,672 | 36.07 | N/A | |
Independent | S. Ramassamy | 6,190 | 2.29 | N/A | |
Independent | A. L. N. Kumarassamy | 1,925 | 0.71 | N/A | |
style="background-color: Template:Indian Congress (Socialist)/meta/color; width: 5px;" | | [[Indian Congress (Socialist)|Template:Indian Congress (Socialist)/meta/shortname]] | S. Sukumaran | 1,794 | 0.66 | N/A |
Independent | N. Ramu | 1,261 | 0.47 | N/A | |
Independent | P. Rajasegaran | 873 | 0.32 | N/A | |
Independent | N. Gajendra Baskara | 664 | 0.25 | N/A | |
Independent | V. T. R. Veerappa Gounder | 604 | 0.22 | N/A | |
Independent | Angappan alias Rousseau Angappan | 422 | 0.16 | N/A | |
Margin of victory | 61,704 | 22.79 | -17.00 | ||
Turnout | 275,654 | 72.28 | -8.08 | ||
INC gain from Indian National Congress (Indira) | Swing |
General election 1989Edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | P. Shanmugam | 190,562 | 50.47 | -8.39 | |
DMK | N. Manimaran | 157,250 | 41.65 | +5.58 | |
PMK | Bavany Maduracayy | 25,021 | 6.63 | N/A | |
Lok Dal (Bahugana) | C. Balamuthuval | 965 | 0.26 | N/A | |
Tharasu Makkal Mandaram | P. D. Panneer Salvan | 943 | 0.25 | N/A | |
Independent | R. Aranganathan | 723 | 0.19 | N/A | |
Independent | M. Kandeeban | 538 | 0.14 | N/A | |
Independent | G. Thiruvengadam | 503 | 0.13 | N/A | |
Independent | M. Manimaran | 440 | 0.12 | N/A | |
Independent | Davulury Nageswara Rao | 345 | 0.09 | N/A | |
Independent | Kanakmull Jain | 298 | 0.08 | N/A | |
Margin of victory | 33,312 | 8.82 | -13.97 | ||
Turnout | 383,306 | 66.71 | -5.57 | ||
INC hold | Swing |
General election 1991Edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | M. O. H. Farook | 207,922 | 53.07 | +2.60 | |
DMK | P. K. Lognathan | 140,313 | 35.81 | -5.84 | |
PMK | Bavani Maduracavi | 13,375 | 3.41 | -3.22 | |
BJP | J. R. Ramasami | 7,728 | 1.97 | N/A | |
Independent | A. V. Ramakrishnan | 5,223 | 1.33 | N/A | |
JP | K. Chandresekharan | 3,802 | 0.97 | N/A | |
Independent | M. Arumai Selvam | 3,499 | 0.89 | N/A | |
Tharasu Makkal Mandaram | D. Joseph Raj | 3,421 | 0.87 | +0.62 | |
style="background-color: Template:Doordarshi Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" | | [[Doordarshi Party|Template:Doordarshi Party/meta/shortname]] | Awadh Kishore Bhaiya | 2,323 | 0.59 | N/A |
Pondicherry Mannila Makkal Munnani | S. Ramassamy | 2,259 | 0.58 | N/A | |
Independent | P. K. Magappan | 944 | 0.24 | N/A | |
Bharatiya Krishi Udyog Sangh | G. Thiruvengadam | 548 | 0.14 | N/A | |
Independent | Amaan Khan | 426 | 0.11 | N/A | |
Margin of victory | 67,609 | 17.26 | +8.44 | ||
Turnout | 401,741 | 67.71 | +1.00 | ||
INC hold | Swing |
General election 1996Edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | M. O. H. Farook | 183,986 | 39.97 | -13.10 | |
DMK | S. Arumugham | 183,702 | 39.91 | +4.10 | |
BJP | S. Thiyagarajan | 20,351 | 4.42 | +2.45 | |
PMK | Bavany Madura Cavy | 19,792 | 4.30 | +0.89 | |
MDMK | R. Balasubramanian | 13,397 | 2.91 | N/A | |
Independent | K. Manivannan | 8,801 | 1.91 | N/A | |
Independent | M. P. Mathimaharaja | 7,425 | 1.61 | N/A | |
BSP | S. K. C. Guedjendirane | 4,005 | 0.87 | N/A | |
style="background-color: Template:Indian Congress (Socialist)/meta/color; width: 5px;" | | [[Indian Congress (Socialist)|Template:Indian Congress (Socialist)/meta/shortname]] | D. Deenadayalan | 3,819 | 0.83 | N/A |
Independent | G. Thiruvengadam | 1,922 | 0.42 | N/A | |
Independent | C. R. Tirougnana Sambandam | 1,866 | 0.41 | N/A | |
JP | L. Vengataraman | 1,823 | 0.40 | -0.57 | |
Independent | Eswara Rao Geddam | 1,795 | 0.39 | N/A | |
Independent | S. Dayalane | 1,513 | 0.33 | N/A | |
Independent | T. Sivasubramanian | 1,394 | 0.30 | N/A | |
Independent | T. Saravanan | 1,392 | 0.30 | N/A | |
Independent | G. Elumalai | 806 | 0.18 | N/A | |
Independent | V. Nadarajan | 794 | 0.17 | N/A | |
Independent | S. Kamaraj | 791 | 0.17 | N/A | |
Independent | K. Padmarajan | 497 | 0.11 | N/A | |
Independent | P. Vijayakumar | 451 | 0.10 | N/A | |
Margin of victory | 284 | 0.06 | -17.20 | ||
Turnout | 477,437 | 75.35 | +7.64 | ||
INC hold | Swing |
General election 1998Edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
DMK | S. Arumugham | 168,122 | 41.11 | +1.20 | |
INC | P. Shanmugam | 131,348 | 32.12 | -7.85 | |
AIADMK | Lucky R. Perumal | 102,622 | 25.10 | N/A | |
BSP | S. K. C. Guedjendirane | 2,589 | 0.63 | -0.24 | |
RJD | T. Sanjeevi | 1,397 | 0.34 | N/A | |
style="background-color: Template:Indian Congress (Socialist)/meta/color; width: 5px;" | | [[Indian Congress (Socialist)|Template:Indian Congress (Socialist)/meta/shortname]] | D. Deenadhayalan | 1,222 | 0.30 | -0.53 |
Ajeya Bharat Party | Balasami | 736 | 0.18 | N/A | |
Independent | R. Sadhasivam | 709 | 0.17 | N/A | |
Independent | G. Sarangam | 173 | 0.04 | N/A | |
Margin of victory | 36,774 | 8.99 | +8.93 | ||
Turnout | 417,786 | 62.86 | -12.49 | ||
DMK gain from INC | Swing |
General election 1999Edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | M. O. H. Farook | 165,108 | 37.17 | +5.05 | |
PMK | M. Ramadass | 140,920 | 31.73 | N/A | |
TMC | P. Kannan | 111,737 | 25.16 | N/A | |
Independent | Kalivardhan | 9,452 | 2.13 | N/A | |
Independent | A. Ramalingam | 5,562 | 1.25 | N/A | |
Independent | T. Ashok Kumar | 5,179 | 1.17 | N/A | |
Independent | K. Padmarajan | 2,700 | 0.61 | N/A | |
Independent | S. Paramasivam | 2,155 | 0.49 | N/A | |
Independent | Surendra Kumar Gupta | 1,349 | 0.30 | N/A | |
Margin of victory | 24,188 | 5.44 | -3.55 | ||
Turnout | 444,174 | 63.27 | +0.41 | ||
INC gain from DMK | Swing |
General election 2004Edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
PMK | M. Ramadass | 241,653 | 49.95 | +18.22 | |
BJP | Lalitha Kumaramangalam | 172,472 | 35.65 | N/A | |
JD(U) | K. Nambiyar | 27,546 | 5.69 | N/A | |
Independent | P. R. N. Thirumurugan | 10,930 | 2.26 | N/A | |
Independent | Z. M. Taher | 5,175 | 1.07 | N/A | |
Independent | Thanga Devadas | 4,085 | 0.84 | N/A | |
Independent | S. Syad Faruk | 3,172 | 0.66 | N/A | |
Independent | M. Rangadas | 2,891 | 0.60 | N/A | |
BSP | Thanga Kalaimaran | 2,665 | 0.55 | N/A | |
Independent | P. Anburaj | 1,684 | 0.35 | N/A | |
JP | S. Ponnurangam | 1,601 | 0.33 | N/A | |
Independent | V. Ramamurthy | 1,571 | 0.32 | N/A | |
CPI(ML)L | S. Balasubramanian | 1,359 | 0.28 | N/A | |
RJD | G. Sundaramoorthy | 1,328 | 0.27 | N/A | |
Independent | N. Sabith | 1,158 | 0.24 | N/A | |
Independent | N. Senthilmurugan | 977 | 0.20 | N/A | |
Independent | E. Kuppan | 906 | 0.19 | N/A | |
Independent | J. Ramadass | 894 | 0.18 | N/A | |
Independent | S. Elangovan | 673 | 0.14 | N/A | |
Independent | G. Krishnaraj | 556 | 0.11 | N/A | |
Independent | R. Natarajan | 520 | 0.11 | N/A | |
Margin of victory | 69,181 | 14.30 | +8.86 | ||
Turnout | 483,816 | 76.07 | +12.80 | ||
PMK gain from INC | Swing | +18.22 |
General election 2009Edit
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|Template:Pyramid Party of India/meta/shortname]] | 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 |
General election 2014Edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
[[All India N.R. Congress|Template:All India N.R. Congress/meta/shortname]] | R. Radhakrishnan | 2,55,826 | 34.57 | N/A | |
INC | V. Narayanasamy | 1,94,972 | 26.35 | -23.06 | |
AIADMK | M. V. Omalingam | 1,32,657 | 17.93 | N/A | |
DMK | A. M. H. Nazeem | 60,580 | 8.19 | N/A | |
PMK | R. K. R. Anantharaman | 22,754 | 3.07 | -31.25 | |
CPI | R. Viswanathan (CPI politician) | 12,709 | 1.72 | N/A | |
AAP | V. Rangarajan | 8,307 | 1.12 | N/A | |
Independent | Sanjivganthi S. | 5,896 | 0.80 | N/A | |
Independent | P. Asaravel | 3,472 | 0.47 | N/A | |
Independent | M. Ramadass | 2,494 | 0.34 | N/A | |
BSP | S. Krishnamoorthy | 2,060 | 0.28 | -0.33 | |
Independent | S. Ezhilarasan | 1,777 | 0.24 | N/A | |
Independent | G. Shanmugam | 1,726 | 0.23 | N/A | |
Independent | Ramamurthi | 1,442 | 0.19 | N/A | |
Independent | M. Chittibabu | 1,340 | 0.18 | -0.66 | |
Independent | S. Sudarsanan | 1,270 | 0.17 | N/A | |
Independent | K. Ramadass | 1,236 | 0.17 | N/A | |
Independent | J. Dhandapani | 1,144 | 0.15 | N/A | |
Independent | K. Manjini | 767 | 0.10 | N/A | |
Independent | Kaliayamurthy | 747 | 0.10 | -0.24 | |
Independent | V. Vijaya | 746 | 0.10 | N/A | |
Independent | P. Bakkiaraj | 610 | 0.08 | N/A | |
Independent | R. Valavan | 497 | 0.07 | N/A | |
Independent | I. Senthil Kumar | 477 | 0.06 | N/A | |
Independent | G. Sutha | 467 | 0.06 | N/A | |
Independent | Puvala Nageswara Rao | 465 | 0.06 | N/A | |
CPI(ML)L | G. Palani | 438 | 0.06 | -0.08 | |
[[Samata Party|Template:Samata Party/meta/shortname]] | Marie Uthrianathan | 366 | 0.05 | N/A | |
JD(U) | S. Chitrakala | 309 | 0.04 | N/A | |
Independent | P. Dhanarasu | 198 | 0.03 | N/A | |
NOTA | None of the above | 22,268 | 3.06 | N/A | |
Margin of victory | 60,854 | 8.22 | -6.87 | ||
Turnout | 740,017 | 82.10 | +2.36 | ||
All India N.R. Congress gain from INC | Swing |
General election 2019Edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | V. Vaithilingam | 4,44,981 | 56.27 | +29.92 | |
[[All India N.R. Congress|Template:All India N.R. Congress/meta/shortname]] | K. Narayanasamy | 2,47,956 | 31.36 | -3.21 | |
MNM | M. A. S. Subramaniam | 38,068 | 4.81 | +4.81 | |
NTK | N. Sharmila Beham | 22,857 | 2.89 | N/A | |
Independent | N. Tamizh Marane | 4,791 | 0.61 | N/A | |
Independent | M. Krishnamurthy | 3,579 | 0.45 | N/A | |
BSP | A. G .Pathimaraj | 2,689 | 0.34 | +0.06 | |
Independent | Ims. Balaji Naikar | 2,546 | 0.32 | N/A | |
AIMK | K. Arunachalam | 2,201 | 0.28 | N/A | |
Independent | D. Ramesh | 1,653 | 0.21 | N/A | |
PDDP | S. Baskaran | 1,319 | 0.17 | N/A | |
SUCI(C) | U. Muthu | 1,285 | 0.16 | N/A | |
Independent | S. Thangavelu | 1,002 | 0.13 | N/A | |
CPI(ML)L | S. Mothilal | 905 | 0.11 | +0.05 | |
Independent | Tiravitamankai @ Lourdhumary | 870 | 0.11 | N/A | |
ACDP | S. Thirugnanam | 674 | 0.09 | N/A | |
Independent | V. Ramamurthi | 642 | 0.08 | N/A | |
Independent | K. Ramadass | 543 | 0.07 | N/A | |
NOTA | None of the above | 12,199 | 1.54 | N/A | |
Margin of victory | 1,97,025 | 24.91 | |||
Turnout | 7,90,895 | 81.25 | |||
INC gain from All India N.R. Congress | Swing | +29.92 |
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
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