Constituency
20. Reddiarpalayam
Community mirrorPuducherry Assembly Election, 2006
PY-REDDIARPALAYAM
CPI 50.4%won by 9.9%AIADMK 40.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 9.9%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 31.3% to 50.4% of the vote here (+19.1%).
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 40.6% — it did not contest here in 2001.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.0% of the vote between them, up from 76.1% — 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
34,330
Margin
3,389
9.87%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPI- 1R.VISWANATHANCommunist Party of India · CPI17,31450.4%
- 2A.M. KRISHNAMURTHYAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK13,92540.6%
- 3R.B. ASHOKBABUDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK1,7485.1%
- 4M. ELANGOVANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7502.2%
- 5GOVERNOR SHANMUGAMIndependent · IND1910.6%
- 6B. RENUGAIndependent · IND1700.5%
- 7M.D. UMASUDANLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP980.3%
- 8K. MURUGAIYANIndependent · IND730.2%
- 9J. RAMESHAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB610.2%
Since 2001
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–AIADMK swing
- −21.4%
- CPI share
- 31.3% → 50.4%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 40.6%
- Turnout
- — → —