1991 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election explained

Election Name:	1991 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election
Country:	India
Type:	legislative
Vote Type:	Popular
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1990 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election
Previous Year:	1990
Election Date:	15 June 1991
Next Election:	1996 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election
Next Year:	1996
Seats For Election:	30 seats in the Puducherry Legislative Assembly
Majority Seats:	16
Turnout:	67.73%
Party1:	Indian National Congress
Leader1:	V. Vaithilingam
Seats1:	15
Seats Before1:	11
Popular Vote1:	32.29%
Seat Change1:	4
Party2:	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Seats2:	6
Seats Before2:	3
Popular Vote2:	18.66%
Seat Change2:	3
CM
Before Election:	President's rule
After Party:	Indian National Congress
After Election:	V. Vaithilingam

Elections to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly were held in June 1991, to elect members of the 30 constituencies in Puducherry (then known as Pondicherry), in India.^[1] The Indian National Congress won the popular vote and the most seats, and V. Vaithilingam was appointed as the Chief Minister of Puducherry.^{[2] [3]} The Indian National Congress was in an alliance with the AIADMK.^[4]

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		63.69%	M. Balasubramaniam		9,175	52.38%	S. Anandavelu		8,060	46.02%	1,115
2		57.22%	M. Elango		4,927	49.97%	P. Shanmugan		4,478	45.42%	449
3		55.95%	A. Gandhiraj		2,381	48.45%	S. P. Sivakumar		2,332	47.46%	49
4		54.96%	C. M. Achraff		3,083	58.80%	G. Perularaja		2,042	38.95%	1,041
5		65.16%	U. C. Arumugan		7,352	57.27%	N. Nathamuthu		5,283	41.15%	2,069
6		58.15%	K. Parasuraman		8,697	59.44%	N. Manimaran		5,613	38.36%	3,084
7		59.08%			7,067	49.05%	N. R. Shanmugam		6,988	48.50%	79
8		67.66%	V. Sababady Kothandraman		8,230	45.45%	M. Manjini		4,295	23.72%	3,935
9		69.40%			5,794	35.59%	S. Ramsing		4,624	28.40%	1,170
10		73.00%	K. Pakkiri Ammal		4,171	37.57%	R. Rajaraman		2,587	23.30%	1,584
11		70.68%			8,095	66.14%	R. Subbaraya Gounder		3,782	30.90%	4,313
12		80.41%	T. Thiagarajan		6,765	51.72%	N. Vengadasamy		4,014	30.69%	2,751
13		73.30%	P. Rajavelu		6,377	48.63%	E. Rajalingam		4,454	33.96%	1,923
14		69.35%	D. Viswanathan		7,453	55.69%	M. Thangavelu		4,939	36.90%	2,514
15		77.87%	N. Rajaram		7,771	52.33%	D. Ramachandran		6,874	46.29%	897
16		73.28%	N. Marimuthu		7,293	63.00%	S. Balaraman		4,162	35.95%	3,131
17		74.99%	P. Anandabaskaran		8,190	54.09%	C. Jayakumar		6,740	44.51%	1,450
18		71.15%	K. Natarajan		8,566	56.82%	M. Rasan Alias Vazhumuni		6,279	41.65%	2,287
19		64.70%			12,545	69.71%	V. Pethaperumal		5,285	29.37%	7,260
20		57.85%	R. Viswanathan		13,134	64.00%	Indira Munusamy		6,517	31.76%	6,617
21		66.15%	P. Kanann		13,475	61.51%	P. Sankaran		8,088	36.92%	5,387
22		76.19%	R. Nalamaharajan		5,051	37.01%	M. Vaithilingam		4,592	33.64%	459
23		57.35%			6,809	59.31%	M. Gnanadesigan		4,389	38.23%	2,420
24		65.69%			6,189	61.10%	S. Savarirajan		3,724	36.76%	2,465
25		75.92%	V. M. C. V. Ganapathy		6,384	49.67%			6,145	47.81%	239
26		72.09%	A. Soundararengan		4,401	41.37%	R. Kamalakkannan		2,994	28.14%	1,407
27		75.75%	M. Chandirakasu		5,955	55.25%	S. A. Marimuthu		4,824	44.75%	1,131
28		70.09%	E. Valsaraj		5,099	62.62%	K. V. Raghavan		2,421	29.73%	2,678
29		70.41%	A. V. Sreedharan		4,922	59.02%	K. M. Raju Master		2,620	31.41%	2,302
30		83.39%	Velaga Rajeshwara Rao		6,331	56.87%	Raksha Harikrishna		4,704	42.26%	1,627

See also

• List of constituencies of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly
• 1991 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: Union Territory of Pondicherry Assembly - General Elections - 1991 . 4 September 2022.
2. Web site: Vaithilingam sworn in as Puducherry Chief Minister . 4 September 2008 . PTI . . This is 58-year old Vaithilingam's second term as Chief Minister. He had earlier headed the Congress government between 1991 and 1996. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121021173333/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-09-04/india/27901371_1_office-and-secrecy-vaithilingam-ministers . 21 October 2012 . 10 September 2022.
3. Web site: Pondicherry Legislative Assembly . 8 September 2022.
4. Web site: Explained: Puducherry, the territory of coalitions and President's Rule . . 26 March 2021 . 8th election: 1991 - The Congress retained its position as the single-largest party, winning 15 seats with a vote share of 30 per cent. The Congress continued its tie-up with the AIADMK, which won six of the 10 seats it contested and had a vote share of 17 per cent. . 4 September 2022.