Constituency
336. Pondicherry
Community mirrorPuducherry · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-PONDICHERRY
PMK 49.9%won by 14.3%BJP 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), which now leads by 14.3%.
- PMK vote sharePMK went from 31.7% to 49.9% of the vote here (+18.2%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 35.6% — it did not contest here in 1999.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.6% of the vote between them, up from 68.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 12.7% to 76.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,36,667
Turnout
76.0%
Valid votes
4,83,816
Margin
69,181
14.30%
Candidates
21 contested · winner PMK- 1RAMADASS. M.Pattali Makkal Katchi · PMK2,41,65349.9%
- 2LALITHA KUMARAMANGALAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,72,47235.6%
- 3K. NAMBIYARJanata Dal (United) · JDU27,5465.7%
- 4P. R. N. THIRUMURUGANIndependent · IND10,9302.3%
- 5Z. M. TAHERIndependent · IND5,1751.1%
- 6THANGA DEVADASIndependent · IND4,0850.8%
- 7S. SYAD FARUKIndependent · IND3,1720.7%
- 8M. RANGADASIndependent · IND2,8910.6%
- 9THANGA KALAIMARANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,6650.6%
- 10P. ANBURAJIndependent · IND1,6840.3%
- 11S. PONNURANGAMJanahitha Paksha · JP1,6010.3%
- 12V. RAMAMURTHYIndependent · IND1,5710.3%
- 13S. BALASUBRAMANIANCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,3590.3%
- 14G. SUNDARAMOORTHYRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD1,3280.3%
- 15N. SABITHIndependent · IND1,1580.2%
- 16N. SENTHILMURUGANIndependent · IND9770.2%
- 17E. KUPPANIndependent · IND9060.2%
- 18J. RAMADASSIndependent · IND8940.2%
- 19S. ELANGOVANIndependent · IND6730.1%
- 20G. KRISHNARAJIndependent · IND5560.1%
- 21R. NATARAJANIndependent · IND5200.1%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PMKflipped
- PMK–BJP swing
- −17.4%
- PMK share
- 31.7% → 49.9%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- 63.3% → 76.0%