Constituency
20. Reddiarpalayam
Community mirrorPuducherry Assembly Election, 1996
PY-REDDIARPALAYAM
CPI 65.6%won by 42.8%AIADMK 22.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 32.2% to 42.8%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.3% between them, down from 95.8% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
26,235
Margin
11,240
42.84%
Candidates
10 contested · winner CPI- 1R. VISWANATHANCommunist Party of India · CPI17,20665.6%
- 2NA, MANIMARANAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK5,96622.7%
- 3A.M. KRISHNAMOORTHYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,2944.9%
- 4N.T. SAMPATHKUMARMGRK · MGRK1,0283.9%
- 5K. VENKATACHALAMAIICT · AIICT3261.2%
- 6D. UMASUDANJanahitha Paksha · JP2310.9%
- 7D. RAGAVANIndependent · IND780.3%
- 8E. SAMMANTHAMIndependent · IND610.2%
- 9E. GEORGEIndependent · IND250.1%
- 10K. ERANYAN @ ETHIRAJIndependent · IND200.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–AIADMK swing
- +10.6%
- CPI share
- 64.0% → 65.6%
- AIADMK share
- 31.8% → 22.7%
- Turnout
- — → —