1985 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election explained

Election Name:	1985 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election
Country:	India
Type:	legislative
Vote Type:	Popular
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1980 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election
Previous Year:	1980
Election Date:	3 May 1985
Next Election:	1990 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election
Next Year:	1990
Seats For Election:	30 seats in the Puducherry Legislative Assembly
Majority Seats:	16
Turnout:	78.39%
Party1:	Indian National Congress
Leader1:	M. O. H. Farook
Seats1:	15
Seats Before1:	10
Seat Change1:	5
Party2:	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Seats2:	6
Seats Before2:	0
Seat Change2:	6
CM
Before Election:	President's rule
After Party:	Indian National Congress
After Election:	M. O. H. Farook

Elections to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly were held in May 1985, 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 M. O. H. Farook was appointed as the Chief Minister of Puducherry.^[3]

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		76.33%	G. Palani Raja		7,820	53.93%	A. Kasilingam		6,281	43.32%	1,539
2		68.84%	P. Kannan		5,273	62.76%	Saraswati Subbiah		1,521	18.10%	3,752
3		65.95%	L. Joseph Mariadoss		2,419	54.77%	Louie Pragassa Kannaiya		1,578	35.73%	841
4		63.57%	C. M. Achraff		2,213	53.17%	S. Babu Ansardeen		1,516	36.42%	697
5		75.51%	P. K. Loganathan		3,898	38.99%	Sitha Vedanayagam		3,040	30.41%	858
6		93.89%	M. A. S. Subramanian		6,635	55.70%	Na. Marimuthu		5,079	42.64%	1,556
7		71.31%			5,526	51.78%	B. Manimaran		4,490	42.07%	1,036
8		77.39%	V. Sababady Kothandraman		6,260	47.06%	M. Manjini		5,874	44.16%	386
9		81.12%			5,505	43.46%			5,127	40.47%	378
10		80.79%	K. Anbalagan		4,509	51.03%	K. Siva Loganathan		4,327	48.97%	182
11		82.73%			6,946	72.94%	P. Ramamurthy		2,577	27.06%	4,369
12		85.84%	R. Ramansthan		4,207	40.67%	K. Parasuraman		3,361	32.49%	846
13		85.20%	P. Uthiravelu		4,911	47.50%	S. Narayanasamy		4,201	40.63%	710
14		78.85%	S. Komala		5,745	54.39%	P. Cattavarayane		4,751	44.98%	994
15		86.26%	D. Ramachandran		6,383	56.48%	A. Krishnasamy		4,918	43.52%	1,465
16		77.31%	V. Nagarathinam		6,176	69.24%	R. Thangavelu Clemanso		2,251	25.24%	3,925
17		80.15%	R. Subbaraya Gounder		5,696	52.34%	M. Venugopal		5,187	47.66%	509
18		82.87%	R. Somasundaram		5,729	53.78%	G. Perumal Raja		4,428	41.57%	1,301
19		74.96%	V. Pethaperumal		6,228	44.66%	T. Murugesan		3,926	28.16%	2,302
20		70.04%	V. Balaji		7,852	56.58%	N. Ranganathan		4,647	33.48%	3,205
21		78.33%			8,804	60.36%	S. Muthu		5,157	35.36%	3,647
22		81.94%	N. Vengadasalam		5,774	55.94%	G. Panjavarnam		4,441	43.02%	1,333
23		66.51%	V. Govindarajan		4,784	49.54%	V. M. Salih Maricar		3,671	38.02%	1,113
24		73.55%			3,808	46.73%	A. M. Kassim		2,393	29.37%	1,415
25		83.30%	V. M. C. Varada Pillai		5,788	53.46%			5,038	46.54%	750
26		81.77%	A. Sonudararengan		4,246	45.19%	R. Kamalakkannan		3,475	36.99%	771
27		79.40%	M. Chandirakasu		5,870	67.60%	M. Kaliaperumal		2,674	30.80%	3,196
28		82.14%	P. K. Sathyanandan		3,695	53.04%	K. V. Raghavan		2,719	39.03%	976
29		81.57%	A. V. Sreedharan		3,766	54.05%	T. K. Chandrashekaran		1,943	27.88%	1,823
30		87.27%			2,884	41.45%	Raksha Harikrishna		2,498	35.91%	386

See also

• List of constituencies of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly
• 1985 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 . 6th election: 1985 - In the 1985 Puducherry Assembly election, the Congress became the single-largest party in the Union territory after two decades. . 4 September 2022.
2. Web site: Union Territory of Pondicherry Assembly - General Elections - 1985 . 4 September 2022.
3. Web site: Thirteenth Lok Sabha Members Bioprofile - M. O. H. Farook. Lok Sabha website. 20 January 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20110703132641/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/former_Biography.aspx?mpsno=121. 3 July 2011. dead.