Puducherry assembly election, May 2021

The 14th Puducherry legislative assembly. Polled.

Seats declared

16 needed for a majority

Largest party

AINRC

10 seats · short of a majority

Candidates

324

36 women, 1 elected

Turnout

81.68%

8.37 lakh of 10.2 lakh

The house

30 seats, each dot one assembly constituency

AINRC10
DMK6
BJP6
IND6
INC2

Biggest movements

Seat change against the previous Puducherry assembly election (2016)

INC

-12

BJP

IND

DMK

ADMK

-4

Parties

Ordered by seats won

Party	Won	+/−	Contested	Strike rate	Votes	Share	Share +/−	Deposits lost
AINRC AINRC	10	+1	16	46.9%	2,16,249	25.85%	-2.98	1
DMK Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	6	+4	13	43.8%	1,54,858	18.51%	+9.44	1
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party	6	+6	9	45.0%	1,14,298	13.66%	+11.19	0
IND Independent	6	+5	116	3.2%	1,06,098	12.68%	+4.73	107
INC Indian National Congress	2	-12	14	33.5%	1,31,393	15.71%	-13.24	1
ADMK All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	0	-4	5	28.5%	34,623	4.14%	-13.10	1
NTK NTK	0	0	28	3.6%	28,189	3.37%	+2.87	28
MNM MNM	0	—	22	2.6%	15,835	1.89%	—	22
CPI Communist Party of India	0	0	1	31.9%	7,522	0.90%	-0.20	0
VCK Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi	0	0	1	17.2%	5,633	0.67%	+0.17	0
AMMK Amma Makkal Munnettra Kazagam	0	—	25	0.7%	4,637	0.55%	—	25
DMDK DMDK	0	0	26	0.3%	2,524	0.30%	+0.19	26
BSP Bahujan Samaj Party	0	0	11	0.4%	1,169	0.14%	+0.07	11
IJK IJK	0	0	21	0.2%	996	0.12%	+0.04	21
SDPI Social Democratic Party of India	0	0	4	0.6%	711	0.09%	-0.02	4
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)	0	0	1	1.4%	321	0.04%	-0.35	1
PUDUCHERRY…PUDUCHERRYDEVELOPMENTPARTY	0	—	4	0.2%	199	0.02%	—	4
CPI(ML)(L)CPI(ML)(L)	0	0	1	0.5%	158	0.02%	-0.01	1
MYINDIAPAR…MYINDIAPARTY	0	—	1	0.5%	145	0.02%	—	1
JD(U)JD(U)	0	0	4	0.1%	141	0.02%	+0.01	4
PURATCHIBH…PURATCHIBHARATHAM	0	—	1	0.3%	60	0.01%	—	1

Vote share is the share of valid votes cast in Puducherry at this election. A party’s national share is a different number and is never mixed with this one.

Largest victories of May 2021

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Assembly seat	State	Winner	Runner-up	Margin
INDIRA NAGAR	Puducherry	AINRCV. AROUMOUGAME @ AKD	INCM. Kannan	18,53163.44%
KARAIKAL SOUTH	Puducherry	DMKA.M.H. NAZIM	ADMKK.A.U.ASSANA MARECAR	12,03449.21%
KADIRGAMAM	Puducherry	AINRCK.S.P @ S. RAMESH	INCP. Selvanadane	12,24645.35%
MANAVELY	Puducherry	BJPEMBALAM SELVAM @ R.SELVAM	INCR. K. R. ANANTHARAMAN	8,13227.16%
KAMARAJ NAGAR	Puducherry	BJPA. JOHNKUMAR	INCM.O.H.F. SHAJAHAN	7,22924.31%
NETTAPAKKAM	Puducherry	AINRCP RAJAVELU	INCV VIZEAVENY	6,63823.61%
THATTANCHAVADY	Puducherry	AINRCN. Rangasamy	CPIK. SETHU @ SETHU SELVAM	5,45623.13%
LAWSPET	Puducherry	INCM. VAITHIANATHAN	BJPV. SAMINATHAN	5,70121.72%
NERAVY-T.R.PATTINAM	Puducherry	DMKM.NAGATHIYAGARAJAN	BJPV.M.C.S.MANOHAREN	5,51121.19%
OUPALAM	Puducherry	DMKANNIBAL KENNEDY	ADMKA. ANBALAGAN	4,78020.15%

Closest results of May 2021

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Assembly seat	State	Winner	Runner-up	Margin
KARAIKAL NORTH	Puducherry	AINRCP.R.N. THIRUMURUGAN	INCA.V. SUBRAMANIAN	1350.48%
BAHOUR	Puducherry	DMKR SENTHILKUMAR	AINRCN DHANAVELOU	2110.80%
MAHE	Puducherry	INCRAMESH PARAMBATH	INDN. HARIDASAN MASTER	3001.28%
NELLITHOPE	Puducherry	BJPRICHARDS JOHNKUMAR	DMKV. CARTIGUEYANE	4961.78%
YANAM	Puducherry	INDGOLLAPALLI SRINIVAS ASHOK	AINRCN.RANGASAMY	6551.88%
OZHUKARAI	Puducherry	INDM. Sivasankar	AINRCN.G. PANNIR SELVAM	8192.50%
MUTHIALPET	Puducherry	INDJ. PRAKASH KUMAR	ADMKVAIYAPURI MANIKANDAN	9343.99%
THIRUNALLAR	Puducherry	INDPR. SIVA	BJPS. RAJASEKARAN	1,3805.14%
OUSSUDU	Puducherry	BJPAK SAI J SARAVANAN KUMAR	INCP. KARTHIKEYAN	1,8806.49%
EMBALAM	Puducherry	AINRCU LAKSHMIKANDHAN	INCM CANDASSAMY	2,2407.29%