Constituency
13. Bahour
Community mirrorPuducherry Assembly Election, 1974
PY-BAHOUR
CPI 38.8%won by 7.3%IND 31.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 7.3%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 47.8% to 38.8% of the vote here (−9.0%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 31.4% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.2% 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
7,034
Margin
516
7.34%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1THANGAVEL CLAMANSOCommunist Party of India · CPI2,72738.8%
- 2P. UTHARAVELUIndependent · IND2,21131.4%
- 3S. NARAYANASWAMYNCO · NCO1,53821.9%
- 4K. KRISHNASWAMYDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK5587.9%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–IND swing
- −40.4%
- CPI share
- 47.8% → 38.8%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 31.4%
- Turnout
- — → —