Constituency
14. Raj Bhavan
Community mirrorPuducherry · Puducherry Assembly Election, 2026
PY-RAJ-BHAVAN
DMK 39.0%won by 1.5%BJP 37.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: AINRC (AINRC) lost it to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which now leads by 1.5%.
- DMK vote shareDMK went from 32.7% to 39.0% of the vote here (+6.3%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 37.5% — it did not contest here in 2021.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.5% between them, down from 84.6% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
18,716
Margin
287
1.53%
Candidates
8 contested · winner DMK- 1VIGNESH KANNANDravida Munnetra Kazhagam · DMK7,30439.0%
- 2V. P. RAMALINGAMEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,01737.5%
- 3V.J. CHANDRANTamilaga Vettri Kazhagam · TVK2,36112.6%
- 4R KUMARANIndian National Congress · INC1,5388.2%
- 5S. KARPAGAVALLINTK · NTK2131.1%
- 6NOTANOTA · NOTA2091.1%
- 7RAMALINGAMIndependent · IND420.2%
- 8P. KODESWARANTMTK · TMTK320.2%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- AINRC
- Winner now
- DMKflipped
- DMK–BJP swing
- −31.2%
- DMK share
- 32.7% → 39.0%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 37.5%
- Turnout
- 72.7% → —