Constituency
11. Lawspet
Community mirrorPuducherry · Puducherry Assembly Election, 2021
PY-LAWSPET
INC 55.6%won by 21.7%BJP 33.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.9% to 21.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.5% of the vote between them, up from 68.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.7% to 79.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
33,225
Turnout
79.0%
Valid votes
26,245
Margin
5,701
21.72%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1M. VAITHIANATHANIndian National Congress · INC14,59255.6%
- 2V. SAMINATHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,89133.9%
- 3NIRMAL SINGHNTK · NTK1,1684.5%
- 4D. SATHIYAMOORTHYMNM · MNM8253.1%
- 5None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA4231.6%
- 6A. BOOPALANDesiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam · DMDK730.3%
- 7N. CAMATCHYAnaithu Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam · AMMK710.3%
- 8P. SENTHIL KUMARIndependent · IND690.3%
- 9C. PANDIANIndependent · IND600.2%
- 10P.V. GOPI KANNANIJK · IJK330.1%
- 11ANNA DURAI. MIndependent · IND200.1%
- 12KARUNAKARANIndependent · IND200.1%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −19.4%
- INC share
- 46.9% → 55.6%
- BJP share
- 5.8% → 33.9%
- Turnout
- 83.7% → 79.0%