Constituency
336. Pondicherry
Community mirrorPuducherry · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-PONDICHERRY
INC 37.2%won by 5.4%PMK 31.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 32.1% to 37.2% of the vote here (+5.1%).
- New challengerPattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) finished second with 31.7% — it did not contest here in 1998.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,01,990
Turnout
63.3%
Valid votes
4,44,162
Margin
24,188
5.45%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1M O H FarookIndian National Congress · INC1,65,10837.2%
- 2M RamadassPattali Makkal Katchi · PMK1,40,92031.7%
- 3P KannanTMCM · TMCM1,11,73725.2%
- 4KalivaradhanIndependent · IND9,4522.1%
- 5A RamalingamIndependent · IND5,5621.3%
- 6Adv. T Ashok KumarIndependent · IND5,1791.2%
- 7Dr. K PadmarajanIndependent · IND2,7000.6%
- 8S ParamasivamIndependent · IND2,1550.5%
- 9Surendra Kumar GuptaIndependent · IND1,3490.3%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- DMK
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–PMK swing
- −26.7%
- INC share
- 32.1% → 37.2%
- PMK share
- 0.0% → 31.7%
- Turnout
- 61.5% → 63.3%