Constituency
29. Palloor
Community mirrorPuducherry Assembly Election, 1985
PY-PALLOOR
INC 54.0%won by 26.2%JNP 27.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.8% to 26.2%.
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 27.9% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.9% between them, down from 90.0% — 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
6,968
Margin
1,823
26.16%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1A.V. SREEDHARANIndian National Congress · INC3,76654.0%
- 2T.K. CHANDRASEKHARANJanata Party · JNP1,94327.9%
- 3C.P. POKKU HAJEIndependent · IND80211.5%
- 4KUNNUMMAL SREEDHARANIndependent · IND3094.4%
- 5P.N.K. SATHEESHANIndependent · IND871.2%
- 6P.C.RAMESHANIndependent · IND260.4%
- 7K.V. RAGHAVANIndependent · IND250.4%
- 8VATTAKANDY RAMACHANDRANIndependent · IND100.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −19.7%
- INC share
- 45.9% → 54.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 27.9%
- Turnout
- — → —