Constituency
2. Cassicade
Community mirrorPuducherry Assembly Election, 1985
PY-CASSICADE
INC 62.8%won by 44.7%CPI 18.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 29.2% to 44.7%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 18.1% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.9% of the vote between them, up from 74.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
8,402
Margin
3,752
44.66%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1P. KANNANIndian National Congress · INC5,27362.8%
- 2SARASWATHI SUBBIAHCommunist Party of India · CPI1,52118.1%
- 3G. SAMBATHJanata Party · JNP1,09013.0%
- 4S. SUKUMARANICS · ICS5186.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −7.0%
- INC share
- 51.6% → 62.8%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 18.1%
- Turnout
- — → —