Constituency
8. Modeliarpeth
Community mirrorPuducherry Assembly Election, 1996
PY-MODELIARPETH
CPI 49.7%won by 13.5%INC 36.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 13.5%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 23.7% to 49.7% of the vote here (+26.0%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.8% of the vote between them, up from 69.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
22,902
Margin
3,102
13.54%
Candidates
11 contested · winner CPI- 1M. MANJINICommunist Party of India · CPI11,38049.7%
- 2V. KOTHANDARAMAN SABABATHYIndian National Congress · INC8,27836.1%
- 3G. THIRUVARASANPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK2,50610.9%
- 4S. SIVARAMAN, B.SC.Independent · IND2631.1%
- 5P. JAYAKUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1530.7%
- 6K. SUBRAMANIAN @ K.S. MANICpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1230.5%
- 7JACOBIndependent · IND790.3%
- 8RAMALINGAM, B.A.Independent · IND560.2%
- 9K. SHANKAR @ DHANAKODIIndependent · IND320.1%
- 10M. SUNDARAPANDIANIndependent · IND170.1%
- 11G. SAKKARAVARTHYIndependent · IND150.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +9.7%
- CPI share
- 23.7% → 49.7%
- INC share
- 19.9% → 36.1%
- Turnout
- — → —