The legislative assembly election in the Indian union territory of Puducherry was held on 16 May 2016 to elect members of the 30 constituencies in the non-contiguous territory to constitute Fourteenth Puducherry Legislative Assembly.

Background

By the requirement, the election must be held at an interval of five years or whenever it is dissolved by the President. The previous election was conducted on 13 April 2011 and its term would have naturally expired on 2 June 2016. The election was organised and conducted by the

Election Commission of India The Election Commission of India (ECI) is a constitutional body. It was established by the Constitution of India to conduct and regulate elections in the country. Article 324 of the Constitution provides that the power of superintendence, dir ...

(ECI). The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British ...

were in an alliance and contested 9 and 21 seats respectively. Ruling AINRC, BJP & ADMK will contest separately. The polling booths in three Assembly constituencies in Puducherry (out of total 30 segments) were equipped with Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines along with EVMs.

Voting

The election was held on 16 May 2016 in a single phase and 84.11% voting was recorded. The votes were counted on 19 May and results were declared on same day.

Result

!colspan=10, , - valign="top" !Colspan=2, Parties and Coalitions ! Votes ! Vote % ! Vote swing ! Contested ! Won ! Change , - , style="background-color:", ,

, 2,44,886 , 30.60 , 5.54 , 21 , 15 , 8 , - , style="background-color:", ,

All India N.R. Congress All India N.R. Congress (abbr. AINRC) is a regional political party formed by the Chief Minister of Puducherry, N. Rangaswamy in the Indian union territory of Puducherry. He announced the party formation on 7 February 2011 in the party's he ...

, 2,25,082 , 28.1 , 3.65 , 30 , 8 , 7 , - , style="background-color:", ,

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; AIADMK) is an Indian regional political party with great influence in the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is a Dravidian party founded by the former chief ...

, 134,597 , 16.8 , 3.05 , 30 , 4 , 1 , - , style="background-color:", , Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam , 70,836 , 8.9 , 1.78 , 9 , 2 , , - , style="background-color:", ,

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the List of ruling p ...

, 19,303 , 2.4 , 1.08 , 30 , 0 , , - , style="background-color:", , Independents , 62,884 , 7.9 , – , , 1 , , - , style="background-color:", ,

None of the above "None of the above" (NOTA), or none for short, also known as "against all" or a "scratch" vote, is a ballot option in some jurisdictions or organizations, designed to allow the voter to indicate disapproval of the candidates in a voting syst ...

, 13,240 , 1.7 , – , – , – , – , - , colspan=2, Total , 8,00,343 , , , , 30 , , - , - ! colspan="9" , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" , Valid votes , 8,00,343 , 99.86 , colspan="4" rowspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" , Invalid votes , 1,099 , 0.14 , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" , Votes cast / turnout , 8,01,442 , 85.08 , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" , Abstentions , 1,43,490 , 14.92 , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" , Registered voters , 9,41,935 , colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9", , - , align=left colspan=8, Source
International Business Times

Results by constituency

References

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