Constituency
20. Reddiarpalayam
Community mirrorPuducherry Assembly Election, 1985
PY-REDDIARPALAYAM
INC 56.6%won by 23.1%CPI 33.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.1% to 23.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.1% of the vote between them, up from 76.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
13,878
Margin
3,205
23.09%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1V. BALAJIIndian National Congress · INC7,85256.6%
- 2N. RANGANATHANCommunist Party of India · CPI4,64733.5%
- 3P. KANNAYANJanata Party · JNP1,3799.9%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −5.0%
- INC share
- 52.5% → 56.6%
- CPI share
- 24.4% → 33.5%
- Turnout
- — → —