Constituency
10. Embalom
Community mirrorPuducherry Assembly Election, 1974
PY-EMBALOM
INC 47.1%won by 17.2%DMK 29.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.4% to 17.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.1% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
6,663
Margin
1,146
17.20%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1G. MURUGESANIndian National Congress · INC3,14047.1%
- 2SIVALOGANATHANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK1,99429.9%
- 3P. S. PERUMALCommunist Party of India · CPI1,52922.9%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–DMK swing
- +5.8%
- INC share
- 55.7% → 47.1%
- DMK share
- 44.3% → 29.9%
- Turnout
- — → —