| Election Name: | 1990 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election |
| Country: | India |
| Type: | legislative |
| Vote Type: | Popular |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1985 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election |
| Previous Year: | 1985 |
| Election Date: | 27 February 1990 |
| Next Election: | 1991 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
| Seats For Election: | 30 seats in the Puducherry Legislative Assembly |
| Majority Seats: | 16 |
| Turnout: | 72.38% |
| Party1: | Indian National Congress |
| Leader1: | M. O. H. Farook |
| Seats1: | 11 |
| Seats Before1: | 15 |
| Popular Vote1: | 25.04% |
| Seat Change1: | 4 |
| Party2: | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| Leader2: | M. D. R. Ramachandran |
| Seats2: | 9 |
| Seats Before2: | 5 |
| Popular Vote2: | 24.07% |
| Seat Change2: | 4 |
| CM | |
| Before Party: | Indian National Congress |
| Before Election: | M. O. H. Farook |
| After Party: | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| After Election: | M. D. R. Ramachandran |
Elections to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly were held in February 1990, 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, but M. D. R. Ramachandran of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, was appointed as the Chief Minister of Puducherry.[3] His party had an alliance with the CPI, and the Janata Dal.[4]
| Assembly Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Names | % | Candidate | Party | data-sort-type=number | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | data-sort-type=number | Votes | % | ||
| 1 | 67.23% | G. Palani Raja | 10,571 | 55.74% | R. Kalipaerumal Alias Perumal | 8,394 | 44.26% | 2,177 | ||||||
| 2 | 66.29% | P. Kannan | 6,040 | 52.52% | S. Anandavelu | 5,095 | 44.30% | 945 | ||||||
| 3 | 62.08% | S. P. Sivakumar | 2,528 | 47.58% | L. Joseph Mariadoss | 2,377 | 44.74% | 151 | ||||||
| 4 | 58.96% | C. M. Achraff | 2,692 | 48.30% | S. Babu Ansardeen | 2,463 | 44.20% | 229 | ||||||
| 5 | 69.17% | N. Naghamuthu | 7,378 | 53.96% | P. K. Loganathan | 5,956 | 43.56% | 1,422 | ||||||
| 6 | 63.14% | N. Manimaran | 8,076 | 50.47% | M. Pandurangan | 7,569 | 47.30% | 507 | ||||||
| 7 | 64.95% | 6,601 | 41.58% | B. Manimaran | 6,071 | 38.24% | 530 | |||||||
| 8 | 71.69% | M. Manjini | 8,905 | 45.39% | V. Sababady Kothandraman | 8,049 | 41.02% | 856 | ||||||
| 9 | 72.85% | A. Bakthkavachalam | 5,950 | 33.88% | Gopalusamy Alias G. D. Chandran | 5,265 | 29.98% | 685 | ||||||
| 10 | 78.97% | K. Deivanayagam | 4,669 | 36.96% | K. Sivaloganathan | 3,563 | 28.20% | 1,106 | ||||||
| 11 | 77.31% | 7,332 | 55.34% | N. Devadass | 3,193 | 24.10% | 4,139 | |||||||
| 12 | 84.54% | R. Ramanathan | 6,072 | 43.99% | P. Purushothaman | 4,307 | 31.21% | 1,765 | ||||||
| 13 | 78.72% | P. Rajavelu | 8,223 | 57.79% | M. Rajagopalan | 5,179 | 36.40% | 3,044 | ||||||
| 14 | 74.01% | D. Viswanathan | 6,743 | 46.43% | N. Veerappan | 5,219 | 35.94% | 1,524 | ||||||
| 15 | 79.70% | D. Ramachandran | 7,802 | 51.00% | R. Somasundaram | 6,210 | 40.59% | 1,592 | ||||||
| 16 | 78.93% | N. Marimuthu | 5,242 | 40.77% | P. Sundararasu | 3,514 | 27.33% | 1,728 | ||||||
| 17 | 76.74% | P. Anandabaskaran | 8,442 | 54.30% | M. Venugopal | 4,706 | 30.27% | 3,736 | ||||||
| 18 | 76.53% | M. Rasan Alias Vazhumuni | 8,749 | 54.08% | M. Padmanabhan | 6,956 | 43.00% | 1,793 | ||||||
| 19 | 66.83% | V. Pethaperumal | 9,503 | 51.31% | 8,521 | 46.00% | 982 | |||||||
| 20 | 63.09% | R. Viswanathan | 11,153 | 50.82% | V. Balaji | 8,482 | 38.65% | 2,671 | ||||||
| 21 | 72.02% | 12,637 | 53.00% | P. Sankaran | 9,738 | 40.84% | 2,899 | |||||||
| 22 | 79.85% | M. Vaithilingam | 5,189 | 35.99% | G. Panjavarnam | 5,049 | 35.02% | 140 | ||||||
| 23 | 64.00% | S. M. Thavasu | 5,394 | 41.51% | G. Rangayen | 3,783 | 29.11% | 1,611 | ||||||
| 24 | 68.72% | 6,012 | 56.32% | S. Savarirajan | 4,228 | 39.61% | 1,784 | |||||||
| 25 | 80.93% | V. Ganapathy | 7,102 | 51.72% | 6,258 | 45.57% | 844 | |||||||
| 26 | 76.92% | R. Kamalakkannan | 4,124 | 35.70% | A. Soundararengan | 3,698 | 32.01% | 426 | ||||||
| 27 | 77.12% | M. Chandirakasu | 6,174 | 55.68% | R. Kuppusamy | 2,591 | 23.37% | 3,583 | ||||||
| 28 | 78.91% | E. Valsaraj | 5,142 | 56.05% | Mukkath Jayan | 3,304 | 36.01% | 1,838 | ||||||
| 29 | 76.72% | A. V. Sreedharan | 5,288 | 58.44% | K. Gangadharan | 2,576 | 28.47% | 2,712 | ||||||
| 30 | 85.72% | Raksha Harikrishna | 4,632 | 42.99% | Velaga Rajeshwara Rao | 3,027 | 28.09% | 1,605 | ||||||