Constituency
23. Karaikal
Community mirrorPuducherry Assembly Election, 1977
PY-KARAIKAL
IND 42.8%won by 21.0%JNP 21.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 21.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1974 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 0.0% to 42.8% of the vote here (+42.8%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 21.9% — it did not contest here in 1974.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.7% between them, down from 79.4% — 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
9,326
Margin
1,955
20.96%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INDSince 1974
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1974 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- AIADMK
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–JNP swing
- +21.0%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 42.8%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 21.9%
- Turnout
- — → —