Constituency
9. Ariankuppam
Community mirrorPuducherry Assembly Election, 1996
PY-ARIANKUPPAM
PMK 37.9%won by 5.4%DMK 32.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), which now leads by 5.4%.
- PMK vote sharePMK went from 28.4% to 37.9% of the vote here (+9.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 70.3% of the vote between them, up from 64.0% — 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
19,496
Margin
1,053
5.40%
Candidates
10 contested · winner PMK- 1S. RAMSINGHPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK7,38237.9%
- 2T. JAYAMOORTHYDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK6,32932.5%
- 3S. SREEDHARANAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK3,77019.3%
- 4P. PURUSOTHAMANIndependent · IND1,7549.0%
- 5V. DEAVARAJANIndependent · IND810.4%
- 6P. JAYAIndependent · IND670.3%
- 7R. ASHOKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP570.3%
- 8M. ADHINARAYANANEIndependent · IND230.1%
- 9J. JAYAMOORTHYIndependent · IND220.1%
- 10K. RAMESHIndependent · IND110.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- PMKflipped
- PMK–DMK swing
- +12.6%
- PMK share
- 28.4% → 37.9%
- DMK share
- 35.6% → 32.5%
- Turnout
- — → —