2016 Puducherry Legislative Assembly election

The legislative assembly election in the Indian union territory of Puducherry was held on 16 May 2016 to elect members of the 30 constituencies in the non-contiguous territory to constitute Fourteenth Puducherry Legislative Assembly.^[2]

2016 Puducherry Legislative Assembly election

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All 30 seats in the Puducherry Legislative Assembly 16 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	85.08%( 1.11%)
Majority party Minority party   Leader A. Namassivayam N. Rangaswamy Party INC AINRC Alliance UPA+DPA Independent Leader's seat Villianur[1] Indira Nagar[1] Last election 7 seats, 25.06% 15 seats, 31.75% Seats won 15 8 Seat change 8 7 Popular vote 244,886 225,082 Percentage 30.6% 28.1% Swing 5.54% 3.65%   Third party Fourth party   AIADMK Leader A. Anbazhagan R. Siva Party AIADMK DMK Alliance - DPA+UPA Leader's seat Oupalam Orleampeth Last election 5 seats, 13.65% 2 seats, 10.68% Seats won 4 2 Seat change 1 Popular vote 134,597 70,836 Percentage 16.8% 8.9% Swing 3.05% 1.78%
Chief Minister before election N. Rangaswamy AINRC Elected Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy INC

Background

By the requirement, the election must be held at an interval of five years or whenever it is dissolved by the President. The previous election was conducted on 13 April 2011 and its term would have naturally expired on 2 June 2016. The election was organised and conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI).

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the Indian National Congress were in an alliance and contested 9 and 21 seats respectively. Ruling AINRC, BJP & ADMK will contest separately.

The polling booths in three Assembly constituencies in Puducherry (out of total 30 segments) were equipped with Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines along with EVMs.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

Assembly constituencies of Puducherry having VVPAT facility with EVMs[8]
Oupalam
Orleampeth
Karaikal South

Parties and alliances

  United Progressive Alliance

Party			Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Indian National Congress	INC		A. Namassivayam	21
	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	DMK		R. Siva	9

  All India N. R. Congress

Party			Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	All India N.R. Congress	AINRC		N. Rangasamy	30

  All India Anna DMK

Party			Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	AIADMK		A. Anbalagan	30

Voting

The election was held on 16 May 2016 in a single phase and 84.11% voting was recorded.^[9] The votes were counted on 19 May and results were declared on same day.^[2]

Result

Parties and Coalitions		Votes	Vote %	Vote swing	Contested	Won	Change
	Indian National Congress	2,44,886	30.60	5.54	21	15	8
	All India N.R. Congress	2,25,082	28.1	3.65	30	8	7
	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	134,597	16.8	3.05	30	4	1
	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	70,836	8.9	1.78	9	2
	Bharatiya Janata Party	19,303	2.4	1.08	30	0
	Independents	62,884	7.9	–		1
	None of the above	13,240	1.7	–	–	–	–
Total		8,00,343				30
Valid votes		8,00,343	99.86
Invalid votes		1,099	0.14
Votes cast / turnout		8,01,442	85.08
Abstentions		1,43,490	14.92
Registered voters		9,41,935
Source: International Business Times

Results by constituency

Results

Assembly Constituency		Winner				Runner Up				Margin
#	Name	Candidate	Party		Votes	Candidate	Party		Votes
Puducherry District
1	Mannadipet	T. P. R. Selvame		AINRC	7679	A. Krishnan		DMK	7260	419
2	Thirubuvanai (SC)	B. Kobiga		AINRC	12143	P. Angalane		INC	10711	1432
3	Ossudu (SC)	E. Theeppainthan		INC	8675	A. K. Saravanan Kumar		BJP	6345	2330
4	Mangalam	S. V. Sugumaran		AINRC	13955	S. Kumaravel		DMK	8392	5563
5	Villianur	A. Namassivayam		INC	18009	Jayakumar		AINRC	9728	8281
6	Ozhukarai	M. N. R. Balan		INC	14703	N.G. Pannirselvam		AINRC	7596	7107
7	Kadirkamam	N. S. J. Jayabal		AINRC	11690	S. Ramesh		IND	7888	3802
8	Indira Nagar	N. Rangaswamy		AINRC	15463	V. Aroumougam A.K.D.		INC	12059	3404
9	Thattanchavady	Ashok Anand		AINRC	12754	K. Sethu		CPI	5296	7458
10	Kamaraj Nagar	V. Vaithilingam		INC	11618	P. Ganesan		ADMK	6512	5106
11	Lawspet	V.P. Sivakolundhu		INC	12144	M. Vaithianathan		IND	5695	6449
12	Kalapet	M. O. H. F. Shahjahan		INC	9839	P.M.L. Kalyanasundaram		IND	9205	634
13	Muthialpet	Vaiyapuri Manikandan		ADMK	9257	J. Pregash Kumar		AINRC	7093	2164
14	Raj Bhavan	K. Lakshminarayan		INC	9445	P. Kannan		ADMK	7220	2225
15	Oupalam	A. Anbalagan		ADMK	9411	Annibal Kennedy		DMK	8503	908
16	Orleampeth	R. Siva		DMK	11110	G.Nehru		AINRC	8130	2980
17	Nellithope	A. Johnkumar		INC	18506	Omsakthi Sekar		ADMK	6365	12141
18	Mudaliarpet	A. Baskar		ADMK	14321	V. Balan		AINRC	8934	5387
19	Ariankuppam	T. Djeamourthy		INC	14029	M.A.S.Subramanian		ADMK	7458	6571
20	Manavely	R. K. R. Anantharaman		INC	9326	G. Suresh		AINRC	6611	2715
21	Embalam (SC)	M. Kandaswamy		INC	18945	U. Lakshmikandhan		AINRC	7745	11200
22	Nettapakkam (SC)	V. Vizeaveny		INC	10577	P. Rajavelu		AINRC	9109	1468
23	Bahour	N. Danavelou		INC	11278	T. Thiagarajan		AINRC	8471	2807
Karaikal District
24	Nedungadu (SC)	Chandirapriyanga		AINRC	8789	A. Marimottou		INC	7695	1094
25	Thirunallar	R. Kamalakannan		INC	13138	P. R. Siva		AINRC	10263	2875
26	Karaikal North	P. R. N. Thirumurugan		AINRC	13139	M.V.Omalingam		ADMK	9841	3298
27	Karaikal South	K. A. U. Asana		ADMK	11104	A.M.H. Nazeem		DMK	11084	20
28	Neravy T R Pattinam	Anandan Geetha		DMK	14993	V.M.C. Sivakumar		ADMK	8057	6936
Mahe District
29	Mahe	V. Ramachandran		IND	10797	E. Valsaraj		INC	8658	2139
Yanam District
30	Yanam	Malladi Krishna Rao		INC	20801	Tirikoty Bairava Swamy		AINRC	12047	8754

See also

• Elections in India
• 2016 elections in India