Elections in Puducherry

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Elections in Puducherry are conducted to elect the members of Puducherry Vidhan Sabha and the members of the Lok Sabha. There are 30 Vidhan Sabha constituencies and 1 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state.[1][2]

Pondicherry Representative Assembly elections[]

After the de facto merger on 1 November 1954 and before the legal integration with the Indian Union on 16 August 1962, general elections were held in 1955 and 1959. So. the first general elections to the Pondicherry Representative Assembly were held in 1955 from July 18 to 23.[3]

Year Election Winning party/coalition Council of ministers President Chief commissioner
1955 First Election[4][3] Congress Party Edouard Goubert, Chandrasekhara Chettiar, Mohammed Yusoof,
S. Dakshinamoorthy Mudaliar and Thiagraja Naicker 		Kewal Singh
1959 Second Election[5] Congress Party V. Venkatasubba Reddiar, Edouard Goubert, C. E. Barathan,
Gouroussamy Pillai, P. Shanmugam and Mohamed Ismail Maricar 		A. S. Gangeyan L. R. S. Singh

Vidhan Sabha elections[]

The Representative Assembly was converted into the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry on 1 July 1963 as per Section 54(3) of The Union Territories Act, 1963[6] and its members were deemed to have been elected to the Assembly.[3]: 966  The elections for the Puducherry Vidhan Sabha held since 1964.

Year Election Winning party/coalition Chief Minister Assembly
1963 No election[3]: 977  Congress Party Edouard Goubert First
1964 First Election Congress Party V. Venkatasubha Reddiar/M. O. H. Farook/V. Venkatasubha Reddiar, Second
1969 Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam M. O. H. Farook Third
1974 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Subramanyan Ramaswamy Fourth
1977 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Subramanyan Ramaswamy Fifth
1980 Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam M. D. R. Ramachandran Sixth
1985 Indian National Congress M. O. H. Farook Sevent
1990 Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam M. D. R. Ramachandran Eighth
1991 Indian National Congress V. Vaithilingam Ninth
1996 Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/Indian National Congress R. V. Janakiraman/P. Shanmugam Tenth
2001 Indian National Congress P. Shanmugam/N. Rangaswamy Eleventh
2006 Indian National Congress N. Rangaswamy/V. Vaithilingam Twelfth
2011 Twelfth Election All India N.R. Congress N. Rangaswamy Thirteenth
2016 Thirteenth Election Indian National Congress V. Narayanasamy Fourteenth

Lok Sabha elections[]

The elections for the Lok Sabha seats in Puducherry held since 1977.

Year Lok Sabha Election Winning party/coalition
1967 Indian National Congress
1971 Indian National Congress
1977 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1980 Indian National Congress (Indira)
1984 Indian National Congress
1989 Indian National Congress
1991 Indian National Congress
1996 Indian National Congress
1998 Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
1999 Indian National Congress
2004 Pattali Makkal Katchi
2009 Fifteenth Lok Sabha Indian National Congress
2014 All India N.R. Congress
2019 Seventeenth Lok Sabha Indian National Congress

References[]

  1. ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1964, to the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry". Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 23 June 2019.
  2. ^ Puducherry Vidhan Sabha Election Results
  3. ^ a b c d Cabinet Responsibility to Legislature. G. C. Malhotra. Lok Sabha Secretariat. 2004. ISBN 9788120004009.
  4. ^ "India, A Reference Annual 1956". Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. Publications Division. 1956. p. 494.
  5. ^ "India A Reference Annual 1962". Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. Publications Division. 1962. p. 499.
  6. ^ "The Government of Union Territories Act, 1963" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
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