2001 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election explained

Election Name:	2001 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election
Country:	India
Type:	legislative
Vote Type:	Popular
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1996 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election
Previous Year:	1996
Next Election:	2006 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election
Next Year:	2006
Seats For Election:	30 seats in the Puducherry Legislative Assembly
Majority Seats:	16
Turnout:	70.10%
Party1:	Indian National Congress
Leader1:	P. Shanmugam
Seats1:	11
Seats Before1:	9
Seat Change1:	2
Party2:	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Leader2:	R. V. Janakiraman
Seats2:	7
Seats Before2:	7
Seat Change2:	0
CM
Before Party:	Indian National Congress
Before Election:	P. Shanmugam
After Party:	Indian National Congress
After Election:	P. Shanmugam

Elections to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly were held in 1969, 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 P. Shanmugam was appointed as the Chief Minister of Puducherry.^{[3] [4] [5]}

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		64.67%	A. Kasilingam		6,857	38.02%	Raja Chandrasekaran		4,947	27.43%	1,910
2		68.44%	K. Lakshminarayanan		4,875	51.52%	R. Malar Mannan		3,097	32.73%	1,778
3		65.75%	S. P. Sivakumar		2,408	57.79%	A. Gandhiraj		1,308	31.39%	1,100
4		51.02%	Annibal Kennedy		3,087	63.77%	S. Babu Ansardeen		904	18.67%	2,183
5		72.89%	A. Anbalagan		8,416	59.24%	P. Pandian		5,044	35.50%	3,372
6		70.28%			7,608	49.41%	G. Chezhian		4,223	27.42%	3,385
7		75.41%			7,780	51.42%	Dr. J. Nannan		5,839	38.59%	1,941
8		73.23%	Dr. M. A. S. Subramanian		9,119	40.98%	V. Sababady Kothandraman		7,616	34.22%	1,503
9		74.12%	T. Jayamoorthy		9,790	45.23%	K. R. Anantharaman		5,628	26.00%	4,162
10		74.87%	N. Gangadaran		3,723	25.44%	S. Palanivelu		3,087	21.10%	636
11		79.40%			5,984	39.47%	K. Dhanraju		4,771	31.47%	1,213
12		83.57%	R. Radhakrishnan		8,000	50.58%	T. Thiagarajan		5,979	37.81%	2,021
13		79.21%	P. Rajavelu		7,696	48.91%	M. Kandasamy		5,063	32.18%	2,633
14		76.21%			4,753	28.60%	Durai Arivudainambi		3,949	23.76%	804
15		79.09%	D. Ramachandran		8,939	55.29%	N. Rajaram		4,237	26.21%	4,702
16		81.22%			5,364	34.65%	S. Balaraman		5,200	33.59%	164
17		80.72%	C. Djeacoumar		10,335	50.51%	J. Narayanasamy		6,246	30.52%	4,089
18		71.96%			10,164	45.49%	K. Natarajan		6,021	26.95%	4,143
19		67.87%			14,323	58.90%	V. Pethaperumal		8,769	36.06%	5,554
20		70.12%			11,446	44.85%	R. Viswanathan		7,985	31.29%	3,461
21		65.51%			12,929	38.51%	N. Kesavan		10,962	32.65%	1,967
22		71.10%	R. Nalamagarajan		7,058	43.50%	M. Ramadass		5,382	33.17%	1,676
23		61.17%			6,273	46.92%	A. J. Assana		3,969	29.69%	2,304
24		69.85%			6,138	51.39%	V. K. Ganapathy		5,229	43.78%	909
25		71.52%			6,672	46.96%	V. M. C. V. Ganapathy		3,741	26.33%	2,931
26		74.22%	R. Kamalakkannan		5,390	42.00%	N. V. R. Arivoli		4,615	35.96%	775
27		76.17%	M. Chandirakasu		5,720	45.35%	A. Marimuthu		4,660	36.95%	1,060
28		72.95%	E. Valsaraj		5,666	59.87%	Manoli Muhammad		3,131	33.08%	2,535
29		71.01%	A. V. Sreedharan		4,855	49.23%	P. Dineshan		3,392	34.40%	1,463
30		83.43%			8,959	57.34%	Gollapalli Gangadhara Pratap		5,981	38.28%	2,978

See also

• List of constituencies of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly
• 2001 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 . 10th election: 2001 - The Congress was the single-largest party in the 2001 Puducherry election, winning 11 seats, with a vote share of 22.78 per cent. Its pre-poll ally, the Tamil Maanila Congress, won two seats. The Congress and Tamil Maanila Congress formed the government, with outside support of the AIADMK, which had won three seats. . 4 September 2022.
2. Web site: Union Territory of Pondicherry Assembly - General Elections - 2001 . 4 September 2022.
3. Web site: Former Puducherry chief minister Shanmugam dead . Newstrackindia.com . 2 February 2013.
4. News: Former Puducherry CM Shanmugam passes away . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130205070516/http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/former-puducherry-cm-shanmugam-passes-away/article4373211.ece . 5 February 2013 . . 3 February 2013.
5. Web site: Pondicherry Legislative Assembly . 8 September 2022.