Constituency
12. Kalapet
Community mirrorPuducherry · Puducherry Assembly Election, 2016
PY-KALAPET
INC 35.1%won by 2.3%IND 32.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: AINRC (AINRC) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.3%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 32.8% — it polled just 0.9% in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.9% between them, down from 96.7% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
32,009
Turnout
87.6%
Valid votes
28,042
Margin
634
2.26%
Candidates
15 contested · winner INC- 1M.O.H.F. SHAHJAHANIndian National Congress · INC9,83935.1%
- 2P.M.L. KALYANASUNDARAMIndependent · IND9,20532.8%
- 3N. VISWANATHANAINRC · AINRC3,84113.7%
- 4V.C. EZHUMALAI@KASILINGAMAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK3,69413.2%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3771.3%
- 6P. SELVARASSOUPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK2711.0%
- 7S. ARUNACHALAMDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK2190.8%
- 8I.M.S. BALAJIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1840.7%
- 9FAROOKIndependent · IND1180.4%
- 10V. KUMARINTK · NTK890.3%
- 11A. MOHANASUNDARAMIndependent · IND730.3%
- 12DR. M. HARIHARANIndependent · IND420.1%
- 13N. PERIYANNAN @ THANGAVELIndependent · IND360.1%
- 14L. SUBBULAKSHMIIJK · IJK330.1%
- 15SARAVANANAGIMK · AGIMK210.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AINRC
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −31.2%
- INC share
- 34.3% → 35.1%
- IND share
- 0.9% → 32.8%
- Turnout
- 87.7% → 87.6%