Constituency
322. Pondicherry
Community mirrorPuducherry · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-PONDICHERRY
INCI 66.5%won by 39.8%JNP 26.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Anna Dravidar Kazhagam (ADK) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 39.8%.
- INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 66.5% of the vote here (+66.5%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 26.7% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.1% to 77.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,19,237
Turnout
77.6%
Valid votes
2,47,681
Margin
98,564
39.79%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INCI- 1P. SHANMUGAMINCI · INCI1,64,58966.5%
- 2M.R. LAKSHMINARAYANANJanata Party · JNP66,02526.7%
- 3P. DEVARAJJNPS · JNPS17,0676.9%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- ADK
- Winner now
- INCIflipped
- INCI–JNP swing
- +39.8%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 66.5%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 26.7%
- Turnout
- 72.5% → 77.6%