Puducherry Lok Sabha constituency
Puducherry | |
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Lok Sabha constituency | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | South India |
Union Territory | Puducherry |
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 |
Established | 1967 |
Total electors | 973,161 |
Reservation | None |
Member of Parliament | |
17th Lok Sabha | |
Incumbent | |
Party | Indian National Congress |
Elected year | 2019 |
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.
History of the constituency
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. 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 segments
The constituency presently comprises all the thirty segments of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly.
Members of Parliament
Election results
General election 1967
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 1971
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | Mohan Kumaramangalam | 112,714 | 66.27 | +26.44 | |
INC(O) | 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 1977
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AIADMK | A. Bala Pajanor | 115,302 | 53.32 | N/A | |
INC(O) | 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 1980
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC(I) | P. Shanmugam | 164,589 | 66.45 | N/A | |
JP | M. R. Lakshminarayanan | 66,025 | 26.66 | N/A | |
JP(S) | P. Devaraj | 17,067 | 6.89 | N/A | |
Margin of victory | 98,564 | 39.79 | +30.91 | ||
Turnout | 256,539 | 80.36 | +6.73 | ||
INC(I) gain from AIADMK | Swing |
General election 1984
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 | |
IC(S) | 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 INC(I) | Swing |
General election 1989
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 1991
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 | |
Doordarshi Party | 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 1996
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 | |
IC(S) | 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 1998
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 | |
IC(S) | 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 1999
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | M. O. H. Farook | 165,108 | 37.17 | +5.05 | |
PMK | M. Ramadass | 140,920 | 31.73 | N/A | |
TMC(M) | 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 2004
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
PMK | M. Ramadass | 241,653 | 49.95 | +18.22 | |
BJP | Lalitha Kumaramangalam | 172,472 | 35.65 | N/A | |
Janata Dal (United) | 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 2009
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 |
General election 2014
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AINRC | R. Radhakrishnan | 255,826 | 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 | 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 | Marie Uthrianathan | 366 | 0.05 | N/A | |
Janata Dal (United) | 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 | ||
AINRC gain from INC | Swing |
General election 2019
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | V. Vaithilingam | 444,981 | 56.27 | +29.92 | |
AINRC | K. Narayanasamy | 2,47,956 | 31.36 | -3.21 | |
MNM | Mohammad Subramanian | 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 AINRC | Swing | +29.92 |