2001 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election explained

Elections to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly were held in 1969, to elect members of the 30 constituencies in Puducherry (then known as Pondicherry), in India.^{[1] [2]} The Indian National Congress won the popular vote and the most seats, and P. Shanmugam was appointed as the Chief Minister of Puducherry.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Elected members

• Winner, runner-up, voter turnout, and victory margin in every constituency

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Assembly Constituency	Turnout	Winner					Runner Up					Margin
k	Names	%	Candidate	Party		data-sort-type=number	Votes	%	Candidate	Party			data-sort-type=number	Votes	%
1		64.67%	A. Kasilingam		6,857	38.02%	Raja Chandrasekaran		4,947	27.43%	1,910
2		68.44%	K. Lakshminarayanan		4,875	51.52%	R. Malar Mannan		3,097	32.73%	1,778
3		65.75%	S. P. Sivakumar		2,408	57.79%	A. Gandhiraj		1,308	31.39%	1,100
4		51.02%	Annibal Kennedy		3,087	63.77%	S. Babu Ansardeen		904	18.67%	2,183
5		72.89%	A. Anbalagan		8,416	59.24%	P. Pandian		5,044	35.50%	3,372
6		70.28%			7,608	49.41%	G. Chezhian		4,223	27.42%	3,385
7		75.41%			7,780	51.42%	Dr. J. Nannan		5,839	38.59%	1,941
8		73.23%	Dr. M. A. S. Subramanian		9,119	40.98%	V. Sababady Kothandraman		7,616	34.22%	1,503
9		74.12%	T. Jayamoorthy		9,790	45.23%	K. R. Anantharaman		5,628	26.00%	4,162
10		74.87%	N. Gangadaran		3,723	25.44%	S. Palanivelu		3,087	21.10%	636
11		79.40%			5,984	39.47%	K. Dhanraju		4,771	31.47%	1,213
12		83.57%	R. Radhakrishnan		8,000	50.58%	T. Thiagarajan		5,979	37.81%	2,021
13		79.21%	P. Rajavelu		7,696	48.91%	M. Kandasamy		5,063	32.18%	2,633
14		76.21%			4,753	28.60%	Durai Arivudainambi		3,949	23.76%	804
15		79.09%	D. Ramachandran		8,939	55.29%	N. Rajaram		4,237	26.21%	4,702
16		81.22%			5,364	34.65%	S. Balaraman		5,200	33.59%	164
17		80.72%	C. Djeacoumar		10,335	50.51%	J. Narayanasamy		6,246	30.52%	4,089
18		71.96%			10,164	45.49%	K. Natarajan		6,021	26.95%	4,143
19		67.87%			14,323	58.90%	V. Pethaperumal		8,769	36.06%	5,554
20		70.12%			11,446	44.85%	R. Viswanathan		7,985	31.29%	3,461
21		65.51%			12,929	38.51%	N. Kesavan		10,962	32.65%	1,967
22		71.10%	R. Nalamagarajan		7,058	43.50%	M. Ramadass		5,382	33.17%	1,676
23		61.17%			6,273	46.92%	A. J. Assana		3,969	29.69%	2,304
24		69.85%			6,138	51.39%	V. K. Ganapathy		5,229	43.78%	909
25		71.52%			6,672	46.96%	V. M. C. V. Ganapathy		3,741	26.33%	2,931
26		74.22%	R. Kamalakkannan		5,390	42.00%	N. V. R. Arivoli		4,615	35.96%	775
27		76.17%	M. Chandirakasu		5,720	45.35%	A. Marimuthu		4,660	36.95%	1,060
28		72.95%	E. Valsaraj		5,666	59.87%	Manoli Muhammad		3,131	33.08%	2,535
29		71.01%	A. V. Sreedharan		4,855	49.23%	P. Dineshan		3,392	34.40%	1,463
30		83.43%			8,959	57.34%	Gollapalli Gangadhara Pratap		5,981	38.28%	2,978

See also

• List of constituencies of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly
• 2001 elections in India

External links

• Web site: Record of all Puducherry Assembly elections . eci.gov.in . . 19 May 2022.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Explained: Puducherry, the territory of coalitions and President's Rule . . 26 March 2021 . 10th election: 2001 - The Congress was the single-largest party in the 2001 Puducherry election, winning 11 seats, with a vote share of 22.78 per cent. Its pre-poll ally, the Tamil Maanila Congress, won two seats. The Congress and Tamil Maanila Congress formed the government, with outside support of the AIADMK, which had won three seats. . 4 September 2022.
2. Web site: Union Territory of Pondicherry Assembly - General Elections - 2001 . 4 September 2022.
3. Web site: Former Puducherry chief minister Shanmugam dead . Newstrackindia.com . 2 February 2013.
4. News: Former Puducherry CM Shanmugam passes away . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130205070516/http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/former-puducherry-cm-shanmugam-passes-away/article4373211.ece . 5 February 2013 . . 3 February 2013.
5. Web site: Pondicherry Legislative Assembly . 8 September 2022.