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Indian general election in Puducherry, 2009
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1 seat
Turnout79.81%
  First party Second party
 
Leader M. Karunanidhi J. Jayalalithaa
Party DMK AIADMK
Alliance UPA TF
Seats won 1 0
Seat change Increase1 Decrease1
Popular vote 300,391 208,619
Percentage 49.41% 34.32%

The 2009 Indian general election in Puducherry, occurred for 1 seat in the territory. The seat is part of the Puducherry constituency. The UPA, fielded Narayanswamy, of the Indian National Congress, while the Third Front fielded PMK incumbent candidate M. Ramadass. Due to the high Vanniyar population in Puducherry, many expected that it will be a bitter contest, unlike the previous election, when PMK was part of the UPA. The results reflected the general trend shown in Tamil Nadu, where DMK and its alliance UPA, were able to beat its rival ADMK and its allies which are part of the Third Front. The results here also reflects the poor performance of PMK in this election, losing all 7 seats, it contested in Tamil Nadu, as opposed to winning all of its 6 seats in the last election.

Results of Indian General Elections 2009 Puducherry
INC PMK DMDK
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Full Results

Source: Election Commission of India [1]

2009 Indian general elections: Puducherry[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC V. Narayanasamy 300,391 49.41 N/A
PMK M. Ramadass 208,619 34.32 -15.63
DMDK K. A. U. Asanaa 52,638 8.66 N/A
BJP M. Visweswaran 13,442 2.21 -33.44
Independent M. Chittibabu 5,103 0.84 N/A
Independent V. Lingamurthy 4,179 0.69 N/A
BSP M. Somasundaram 3,697 0.61 +0.06
Independent Sivaraman V. 2,439 0.40 N/A
Independent Kaliamurthy K. 2,074 0.34 N/A
Independent V. Rajendran 1,810 0.30 N/A
Independent Manimaran 1,532 0.25 N/A
Independent V. Saravanan 1,425 0.23 N/A
Independent Veeramuthu A. 1,239 0.20 N/A
CPI(ML)L S. Balasubramaniam 839 0.14 -0.14
Independent G. Subramaniyan 757 0.12 N/A
Independent V. Ramamurthy 662 0.11 -0.21
Independent A. Rajasekar 656 0.11 N/A
Pyramid Party of India Pradeep Aniruddh 627 0.10 N/A
Independent Arunachalam K. 597 0.10 N/A
Kamraj Desiya Congress S. Govindaswamy 570 0.09 N/A
JMM S. Gnanavel 456 0.08 N/A
Independent P. Vijayabaskar 449 0.07 N/A
Independent R. Narayanan 422 0.07 N/A
Independent Murugaiyan K. S. 378 0.06 N/A
Independent Muppadai Mathimaharaja 378 0.06 N/A
Independent I. M. Sekar 375 0.06 N/A
Independent Mohamed Yousuf S. A. 298 0.05 N/A
Margin of victory 91,772 15.09 +0.79
Turnout 607,948 79.74 +3.67
INC gain from PMK Swing
UPA gain from TF Swing

References

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2009.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. pp. 196–197. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2014.

See also

Brisk polling in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry

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