Constituency
29. Palloor
Community mirrorPuducherry Assembly Election, 1996
PY-PALLOOR
INC 45.4%won by 14.1%JD 31.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.6% to 14.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.7% between them, down from 90.4% — 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
9,367
Margin
1,324
14.13%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1A.V. SREEDHARANIndian National Congress · INC4,25345.4%
- 2PANANGATIL KHADERJanata Dal · JD2,92931.3%
- 3P.K. SATHYANANDANIndependent · IND1,13112.1%
- 4C.P. GANESHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,02911.0%
- 5K.P. MOOSA HAJIIndependent · IND250.3%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JD swing
- −13.5%
- INC share
- 59.0% → 45.4%
- JD share
- 31.4% → 31.3%
- Turnout
- — → —