Puducherry Lok Sabha constituency

Puducherry Lok Sabha constituency covers the entire Union Territory of Puducherry. Pondicherry became a union territory after the implementation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India in 1962 and changed its name to Puducherry in 2006. This constituency first held elections in 1967 and its first member of parliament (MP) was Thirumudi N. Sethuraman of the Indian National Congress.

History of the constituency

Sethuraman represented the Indian National Congress (Organisation) in the 1971 election, which he lost to Mohan Kumaramangalam of the INC. The next election in 1977 was won by Aravinda Bala Pajanor of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK). P. Shanmugam of the INC won the 1980 election and was re-elected in 1984 and 1989. M. O. H. Farook also of the INC served two terms from 1991 to 1998. In the 1998 election, S. Arumugham of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) was elected as MP. Farook was re-elected in 1999 to serve a third term as MP. The next election in 2004 was won by M. Ramadass of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK). V. Narayanasamy of the INC was elected in 2009 and was defeated in the next election in 2014 by R. Radhakrishnan of the All India N.R. Congress. Radhakrishnan's victory was the first time that the Lok Sabha seat was won by a member of a Puducherry regional party. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections Indian National Congress candidate V. Vaithilingam defeated All India N.R. Congress candidate Dr. Narayanasamy Kesavan by a record margin of 1,97,025 votes, this margin is the highest in the electoral history of Puducherry Parliamentary Constituency. Indian National Congress is the most successful party in this constituency by winning 10 out of 14 elections, in the other 4 elections, 2 times in 1977 and 2004 Indian National Congress party's alliance partners All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) won respectively.

Prior to independence, the colony sent a member to the French National Assembly.

Assembly segments

The constituency presently comprises all the thirty segments of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly.

Constituency number	Name	MLA	Party		Party Leading (in 2024)
Puducherry District
1	Mannadipet	A. Namassivayam
2	Thirubuvanai	P Angalane
3	Ossudu	A. K. Sai J. Saravanan Kumar
4	Mangalam	C. Djeacoumar
5	Villianur	R. Siva
6	Ozhukarai	M.Sivasankar
7	Kadirkamam	S. Ramesh
8	Indira Nagar	V. Aroumougam A. K. D.
9	Thattanchavady	N. Rangaswamy
10	Kamaraj Nagar	A. Johnkumar
11	Lawspet	M. Vaithianathan
12	Kalapet	P. M. L. Kalyanasundaram
13	Muthialpet	J. Prakash Kumar
14	Raj Bhavan	K. Lakshminarayanan
15	Oupalam	Anibal Kennedy
16	Orleampeth	G. Nehru
17	Nellithope	Richards Johnkumar
18	Mudaliarpet	L. Sambath
19	Ariankuppam	R. Baskar
20	Manavely	Embalam R. Selvam
21	Embalam	U Lakshmikandhan
22	Nettapakkam	P. Rajavelu
23	Bahour	R Senthilkumar
Karaikal District
24	Nedungadu	Chandira Priyanga
25	Thirunallar	P.R Siva
26	Karaikal North	P. R. N. Thirumurugan
27	Karaikal South	A. M. H. Nazeem
28	Neravy T R Pattinam	M Nagathiyagarajan
Mahe District
29	Mahe	Ramesh Parambath
Yanam District
30	Yanam	Gollapalli Srinivas Ashok

Members of Parliament

Election	Member	Party
1967	Thirumudi N. Sethuraman	Template:Full party name with color
1971	Mohan Kumaramangalam
1977	Aravinda Bala Pajanor	Template:Full party name with color
1980	P. Shanmugam	Template:Full party name with color
1984
1989
1991	M. O. H. Farook
1996
1998	S. Arumugham	Template:Full party name with color
1999	M. O. H. Farook	Template:Full party name with color
2004	M. Ramadass	Template:Full party name with color
2009	V. Narayanasamy	Template:Full party name with color
2014	R. Radhakrishnan	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	All India N.R. Congress
2019	V. Vaithilingam	Template:Full party name with color
2024

Election results

Vote share of winning candidates
2024			52.73%
2019			56.27%
2014			34.57%
2009			49.41%
2004			49.95%
1999			37.17%
1998			41.11%
1996			39.97%
1991			53.07%
1989			50.47%
1984			58.86%
1980			66.45%
1977			53.32%
1971			66.27%
1967			39.83%

General Elections 2024

2024 Indian general election : Puducherry

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		V. Vaithilingam	Template:Replace	52.73
		A. Namassivayam	289,489	35.83
		R. Meneka	39,603	4.90
		G. Thamizhvendhan	25,165	3.11
		None of the above	9,763	1.21
Margin of victory			136,516	16.90
Turnout			807,940	78.92
Registered electors			1,023,699
	hold		Swing

General election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Puducherry

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		V. Vaithilingam	Template:Replace	56.27
		K. Narayanasamy	2,47,956	31.36
		Mohammad Subramanian	38,068	4.81
		N. Sharmila Beham	22,857	2.89
		N. Tamizh Marane	4,791	0.61
		M. Krishnamurthy	3,579	0.45
		A. G .Pathimaraj	2,689	0.34
		Ims. Balaji Naikar	2,546	0.32
	AIMK	K. Arunachalam	2,201	0.28
		D. Ramesh	1,653	0.21
	PDDP	S. Baskaran	1,319	0.17
		U. Muthu	1,285	0.16
		S. Thangavelu	1,002	0.13
		Krishna Rajan Don	1,000	0.12
		S. Mothilal	905	0.11
		Tiravitamankai	870	0.11
	ACDP	S. Thirugnanam	674	0.09
		V. Ramamurthi	642	0.08
		K. Ramadass	543	0.07
		None of the above	12,199	1.54
Margin of victory			1,97,025	24.91
Turnout			7,90,895	81.25
	gain from		Swing	+29.92

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Puducherry

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		R. Radhakrishnan	Template:Replace	34.57
		V. Narayanasamy	1,94,972	26.35
		M. V. Omalingam	1,32,657	17.93
		A. M. H. Nazeem	60,580	8.19
		R. K. R. Anantharaman	22,754	3.07
		R. Viswanathan	12,709	1.72
		V. Rangarajan	8,307	1.12
		Sanjivganthi S.	5,896	0.80
		P. Asaravel	3,472	0.47
		M. Ramadass	2,494	0.34
		S. Krishnamoorthy	2,060	0.28
		S. Ezhilarasan	1,777	0.24
		G. Shanmugam	1,726	0.23
		Ramamurthi	1,442	0.19
		M. Chittibabu	1,340	0.18
		S. Sudarsanan	1,270	0.17
		K. Ramadass	1,236	0.17
		J. Dhandapani	1,144	0.15
		K. Manjini	767	0.10
		Kaliayamurthy	747	0.10
		V. Vijaya	746	0.10
		P. Bakkiaraj	610	0.08
		R. Valavan	497	0.07
		I. Senthil Kumar	477	0.06
		G. Sutha	467	0.06
		Puvala Nageswara Rao	465	0.06
		G. Palani	438	0.06
		Marie Uthrianathan	366	0.05
		S. Chitrakala	309	0.04
		P. Dhanarasu	198	0.03
		None of the above	22,268	3.06
Margin of victory			60,854	8.22
Turnout			740,017	82.10
	gain from		Swing

General election 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Puducherry

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		V. Narayanasamy	Template:Replace	49.41
		M. Ramadass	208,619	34.32
		K. A. U. Asanaa	52,638	8.66
		M. Visweswaran	13,442	2.21
		M. Chittibabu	5,103	0.84
		V. Lingamurthy	4,179	0.69
		M. Somasundaram	3,697	0.61
		Sivaraman V.	2,439	0.40
		Kaliamurthy K.	2,074	0.34
		V. Rajendran	1,810	0.30
		Manimaran	1,532	0.25
		V. Saravanan	1,425	0.23
		Veeramuthu A.	1,239	0.20
		S. Balasubramaniam	839	0.14
		G. Subramaniyan	757	0.12
		V. Ramamurthy	662	0.11
		A. Rajasekar	656	0.11
		Pradeep Aniruddh	627	0.10
		Arunachalam K.	597	0.10
	Kamraj Desiya Congress	S. Govindaswamy	570	0.09
		S. Gnanavel	456	0.08
		P. Vijayabaskar	449	0.07
		R. Narayanan	422	0.07
		Murugaiyan K. S.	378	0.06
		Muppadai Mathimaharaja	378	0.06
		I. M. Sekar	375	0.06
		Mohamed Yousuf S. A.	298	0.05
Margin of victory			91,772	15.09
Turnout			607,948	79.74
	gain from		Swing

General election 2004

2004 Indian general elections: Pondicherry

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		M. Ramadass	Template:Replace	49.95
		Lalitha Kumaramangalam	172,472	35.65
		K. Nambiyar	27,546	5.69
		P. R. N. Thirumurugan	10,930	2.26
		Z. M. Taher	5,175	1.07
		Thanga Devadas	4,085	0.84
		S. Syad Faruk	3,172	0.66
		M. Rangadas	2,891	0.60
		Thanga Kalaimaran	2,665	0.55
		P. Anburaj	1,684	0.35
		S. Ponnurangam	1,601	0.33
		V. Ramamurthy	1,571	0.32
		S. Balasubramanian	1,359	0.28
		G. Sundaramoorthy	1,328	0.27
		N. Sabith	1,158	0.24
		N. Senthilmurugan	977	0.20
		E. Kuppan	906	0.19
		J. Ramadass	894	0.18
		S. Elangovan	673	0.14
		G. Krishnaraj	556	0.11
		R. Natarajan	520	0.11
Margin of victory			69,181	14.30
Turnout			483,816	76.07
	gain from		Swing	+18.22

General election 1999

1999 Indian general election: Pondicherry

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		M. O. H. Farook	Template:Replace	37.17
		M. Ramadass	140,920	31.73
		P. Kannan	111,737	25.16
		Kalivardhan	9,452	2.13
		A. Ramalingam	5,562	1.25
		T. Ashok Kumar	5,179	1.17
		K. Padmarajan	2,700	0.61
		S. Paramasivam	2,155	0.49
		Surendra Kumar Gupta	1,349	0.30
Margin of victory			24,188	5.44
Turnout			444,174	63.27
	gain from		Swing

General election 1998

1998 Indian general election: Pondicherry

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		S. Arumugham	Template:Replace	41.11
		P. Shanmugam	131,348	32.12
		Lucky R. Perumal	102,622	25.10
		S. K. C. Guedjendirane	2,589	0.63
		T. Sanjeevi	1,397	0.34
		D. Deenadhayalan	1,222	0.30
	Ajeya Bharat Party	Balasami	736	0.18
		R. Sadhasivam	709	0.17
		G. Sarangam	173	0.04
Margin of victory			36,774	8.99
Turnout			417,786	62.86
	gain from		Swing

General election 1996

1996 Indian general election: Pondicherry

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		M. O. H. Farook	Template:Replace	39.97
		S. Arumugham	183,702	39.91
		S. Thiyagarajan	20,351	4.42
		Bavany Madura Cavy	19,792	4.30
		R. Balasubramanian	13,397	2.91
		K. Manivannan	8,801	1.91
		M. P. Mathimaharaja	7,425	1.61
		S. K. C. Guedjendirane	4,005	0.87
		D. Deenadayalan	3,819	0.83
		G. Thiruvengadam	1,922	0.42
		C. R. Tirougnana Sambandam	1,866	0.41
		L. Vengataraman	1,823	0.40
		Eswara Rao Geddam	1,795	0.39
		S. Dayalane	1,513	0.33
		T. Sivasubramanian	1,394	0.30
		T. Saravanan	1,392	0.30
		G. Elumalai	806	0.18
		V. Nadarajan	794	0.17
		S. Kamaraj	791	0.17
		K. Padmarajan	497	0.11
		P. Vijayakumar	451	0.10
Margin of victory			284	0.06
Turnout			477,437	75.35
	hold		Swing

General election 1991

1991 Indian general election: Pondicherry

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		M. O. H. Farook	Template:Replace	53.07
		P. K. Lognathan	140,313	35.81
		Bavani Maduracavi	13,375	3.41
		J. R. Ramasami	7,728	1.97
		A. V. Ramakrishnan	5,223	1.33
		K. Chandresekharan	3,802	0.97
		M. Arumai Selvam	3,499	0.89
	Tharasu Makkal Mandaram	D. Joseph Raj	3,421	0.87
		Awadh Kishore Bhaiya	2,323	0.59
	Pondicherry Mannila Makkal Munnani	S. Ramassamy	2,259	0.58
		P. K. Magappan	944	0.24
	Bharatiya Krishi Udyog Sangh	G. Thiruvengadam	548	0.14
		Amaan Khan	426	0.11
Margin of victory			67,609	17.26
Turnout			401,741	67.71
	hold		Swing

General election 1989

1989 Indian general election: Pondicherry

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		P. Shanmugam	Template:Replace	50.47
		N. Manimaran	157,250	41.65
		Bavany Maduracayy	25,021	6.63
	Lok Dal (Bahugana)	C. Balamuthuval	965	0.26
	Tharasu Makkal Mandaram	P. D. Panneer Salvan	943	0.25
		R. Aranganathan	723	0.19
		M. Kandeeban	538	0.14
		G. Thiruvengadam	503	0.13
		M. Manimaran	440	0.12
		Davulury Nageswara Rao	345	0.09
		Kanakmull Jain	298	0.08
Margin of victory			33,312	8.82
Turnout			383,306	66.71
	hold		Swing

General election 1984

1984 Indian general election: Pondicherry

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		P. Shanmugam	Template:Replace	58.86
		C. P. Thirunavukkarasu	97,672	36.07
		S. Ramassamy	6,190	2.29
		A. L. N. Kumarassamy	1,925	0.71
		S. Sukumaran	1,794	0.66
		N. Ramu	1,261	0.47
		P. Rajasegaran	873	0.32
		N. Gajendra Baskara	664	0.25
		V. T. R. Veerappa Gounder	604	0.22
		Angappan alias Rousseau Angappan	422	0.16
Margin of victory			61,704	22.79
Turnout			275,654	72.28
	gain from		Swing

General election 1980

1980 Indian general election: Pondicherry

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		P. Shanmugam	Template:Replace	66.45
		M. R. Lakshminarayanan	66,025	26.66
		P. Devaraj	17,067	6.89
Margin of victory			98,564	39.79
Turnout			256,539	80.36
	gain from		Swing

General election 1977

1977 Indian general election: Pondicherry

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		A. Bala Pajanor	Template:Replace	53.32
		Ansari Duraisamy	96,101	44.44
		Ramu alias Subramanian N.	3,921	1.81
		Gadjindra Baskar	920	0.43
Margin of victory			19,201	8.88
Turnout			219,560	73.63
	gain from		Swing

General election 1971

1971 Indian general election: Pondicherry

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Mohan Kumaramangalam	Template:Replace	66.27
		Thirumudi N. Sethuraman	47,550	27.96
		A. Balasubramanian	6,745	3.97
		D. Krishnasamy	3,079	1.81
Margin of victory			65,164	38.31
Turnout			172,992	70.10
	hold		Swing	+26.44

General election 1967

1967 Indian general election: Pondicherry

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Thirumudi N. Sethuraman	Template:Replace	39.83
		S. Sadagopan	52,861	33.27
	Peoples Front	K. Subbiah	42,725	26.89
Margin of victory			10,425	6.56
Turnout			162,193	74.85
	win (new seat)

See also

• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha
• Puducherry Legislative Assembly
• List of chief ministers of Puducherry
• List of Rajya Sabha members from Puducherry

References

• Puducherry Lok Sabha Election 2019 Results Website