Constituency
13. Bahour
Community mirrorPuducherry Assembly Election, 1985
PY-BAHOUR
JNP 47.5%won by 6.9%INC 40.6%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.7% to 6.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 40.6% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.1% of the vote between them, up from 83.1% — 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
10,339
Margin
710
6.87%
Candidates
4 contested · winner JNP- 1P. UTHIRAVELUJanata Party · JNP4,91147.5%
- 2S. NARAYANASAMYIndian National Congress · INC4,20140.6%
- 3P.MURTHYDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK1,06310.3%
- 4S. THANIGASALAMLKD · LKD1641.6%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- JNP
- JNP–INC swing
- −44.5%
- JNP share
- 51.4% → 47.5%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 40.6%
- Turnout
- — → —