Election
Constituency

20. Reddiarpalayam

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Puducherry Assembly Election, 1990

PY-REDDIARPALAYAM

CPI 50.8%won by 12.2%INC 38.6%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 12.2%.

  • CPI vote shareCPI went from 33.5% to 50.8% of the vote here (+17.3%).
  • 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
21,946
Margin
2,671
12.17%

Candidates

10 contested · winner CPI
  1. 1R. VISWANATHANCommunist Party of India · CPI11,15350.8%
  2. 2V. BALAJIIndian National Congress · INC8,48238.6%
  3. 3G. RAMAMURTHYPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK1,2215.6%
  4. 4M. KRISHNAMURTHYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3261.5%
  5. 5N. MADURAIIndependent · IND2761.3%
  6. 6D. PURUSHOTHAMANIndependent · IND2411.1%
  7. 7P. A. ARULDOSSLkd (B) · LKDB940.4%
  8. 8S. KAMARAJJanata Party · JNP930.4%
  9. 9N. SUBRAMANIANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP370.2%
  10. 10A. RAJA DEIVASINGIndependent · IND230.1%

Since 1985

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
CPIflipped
CPI–INC swing
+35.3%
CPI share
33.5% → 50.8%
INC share
56.6% → 38.6%
Turnout
— → —
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