Constituency
4. Mangalam
Community mirrorPuducherry · Puducherry Assembly Election, 2016
PY-MANGALAM
AINRC 44.6%won by 17.8%DMK 26.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to AINRC (AINRC), which now leads by 17.8%.
- New challengerDravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finished second with 26.8% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.4% between them, down from 96.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.3% to 89.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
34,831
Turnout
89.8%
Valid votes
31,283
Margin
5,563
17.78%
Candidates
15 contested · winner AINRC- 1S.V. SUGUMARANAINRC · AINRC13,95544.6%
- 2S. KUMARAVELDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK8,39226.8%
- 3K. NATARAJANAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK7,12422.8%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3661.2%
- 5N. ELUMALAIMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK3141.0%
- 6M. LATCHOUMY DITE SRIVARAMANGUEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2720.9%
- 7R. BALAMURUGANIndependent · IND1810.6%
- 8SUGUMARANIndependent · IND1780.6%
- 9P. MURUGESANIndependent · IND1050.3%
- 10P. BAKKIYARAJNTK · NTK1040.3%
- 11D. ALANGARAVELUBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1030.3%
- 12P. MURUGANCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL950.3%
- 13J. HARIDASSIndependent · IND420.1%
- 14DR. K.A. MAGADEVANAGIMK · AGIMK330.1%
- 15N. KASINATHANIJK · IJK190.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- AINRCflipped
- AINRC–DMK swing
- −26.2%
- AINRC share
- 44.0% → 44.6%
- DMK share
- 0.0% → 26.8%
- Turnout
- 92.1% → 89.8%