Constituency
4. Bussy
Community mirrorPuducherry Assembly Election, 1996
PY-BUSSY
INC 46.3%won by 17.4%CPI 28.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.9% to 17.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 28.9% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.1% between them, down from 97.7% — 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
4,773
Margin
830
17.39%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1C.M. ACHRAFFIndian National Congress · INC2,20846.3%
- 2ABDUL RACHIDECommunist Party of India · CPI1,37828.9%
- 3R. RAVINDIRANJanata Dal · JD95420.0%
- 4M. ARUMAISELVAMIndependent · IND1182.5%
- 5RAJALAKSHMI, PABharatiya Janata Party · BJP461.0%
- 6B. IRUDAYA RAJ @ B. IDAYAVENDHANEIndependent · IND250.5%
- 7D. VEERAPPANIndependent · IND210.4%
- 8KAREEMIndependent · IND120.3%
- 9H. RAJA MOHAMMEDIndependent · IND60.1%
- 10S. INDIRAIndependent · IND50.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −41.4%
- INC share
- 58.8% → 46.3%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 28.9%
- Turnout
- — → —