Constituency
21. Embalam
Community mirrorPuducherry · Puducherry Assembly Election, 2016
PY-EMBALAM
AINRC 79.7%won by 67.4%AIADMK 12.3%
What changed here
DerivedAINRC held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 93.7% to 67.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) finished second with 12.3% — it did not contest here in 2011.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.9% between them, down from 98.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 19.0% to 31.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
31,386
Turnout
31.0%
Valid votes
9,723
Margin
6,552
67.39%
Candidates
9 contested · winner AINRC- 1LAKSHMIKANDHAN, U.AINRC · AINRC7,74579.7%
- 2GOVINDHARASU, K.All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam · AIADMK1,19312.3%
- 3None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3333.4%
- 4STEEBAN, S.Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK1351.4%
- 5RAMADASS, M.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP1071.1%
- 6ELLAMMAL, R.Cpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL820.8%
- 7SANDYLIAN, S.NTK · NTK760.8%
- 8RAMADOSS, K.Janata Dal (United) · JDU430.4%
- 9JAYACHANDIRAN, A.IJK · IJK90.1%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- AINRC
- Winner now
- AINRC
- AINRC–AIADMK swing
- −28.9%
- AINRC share
- 96.3% → 79.7%
- AIADMK share
- 0.0% → 12.3%
- Turnout
- 50.0% → 31.0%