Constituency
3. Raj Bhavan
Community mirrorPuducherry Assembly Election, 1996
PY-RAJ-BHAVAN
DMK 58.5%won by 33.4%INC 25.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 33.4%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 47.5% to 58.5% of the vote here (+11.1%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.7% between them, down from 95.9% — 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
4,607
Margin
1,538
33.38%
Candidates
9 contested · winner DMK- 1S.P. SIVAKUMARDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK2,69758.5%
- 2A. GANDHIRASUIndian National Congress · INC1,15925.2%
- 3LOUIE PRAGASSA KANNAIYAIndependent · IND55912.1%
- 4M. VISWESWARANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1052.3%
- 5G. RAJMOHAN YADAVIndependent · IND390.8%
- 6D. RAMAJAYAMAIICT · AIICT280.6%
- 7G. KRISHNARAJUIndependent · IND80.2%
- 8A. SAMY AROKIASAMYIndependent · IND80.2%
- 9V. AMIRTHALINGAM @ BABUJanahitha Paksha · JP40.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–INC swing
- +34.4%
- DMK share
- 47.5% → 58.5%
- INC share
- 48.5% → 25.2%
- Turnout
- — → —