Constituency
14. Raj Bhavan
Community mirrorPuducherry · Puducherry Assembly Election, 2016
PY-RAJ-BHAVAN
INC 47.2%won by 11.1%AIADMK 36.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 37.0% to 11.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- NOTANOTA drew 2.4% of the vote.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
25,713
Turnout
77.8%
Valid votes
19,997
Margin
2,225
11.13%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1K. LAKSHMINARAYANANIndian National Congress · INC9,44547.2%
- 2P. KANNANAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK7,22036.1%
- 3A. ANNIBAL NEHRUAINRC · AINRC1,5177.6%
- 4N. POUGAJENDYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9294.6%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA4872.4%
- 6R. VELAYUTHAMNTK · NTK1530.8%
- 7B. PANDIARAJANPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK760.4%
- 8K. RAJESWARIMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · MDMK470.2%
- 9S. KAVITHAIJK · IJK390.2%
- 10P. VENKATARAMANANIndependent · IND320.2%
- 11S. PAZHANIRAJIndependent · IND290.1%
- 12B.J. WILSONIndependent · IND230.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–AIADMK swing
- −25.8%
- INC share
- 59.6% → 47.2%
- AIADMK share
- 22.6% → 36.1%
- Turnout
- 77.1% → 77.8%