2006 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election explained

Elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Indian Union Territory of Pondicherry took place in May 2006 to constitute the Twelfth Assembly of Pondicherry. The UPA alliance comprising Congress, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Pattali Makkal Katchi and Communist Party of India has won^[1] and N. Rangasamy of Congress got elected as chief minister.^[2]

Parties and alliances

Source:^{[1] [3] [4]}

Party			Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Indian National Congress	INC		N. Rangasamy	16
	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	DMK		A.M.H. Nazeem	11
	Pattali Makkal Katchi	PMK			2
	Communist Party of India	CPI			1

Party			Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	AIADMK		A. Anbazhagan	16
	Puducherry Munnetra Congress	PMC			10
	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	MDMK			3
	Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi	VCK			1

Results

Source: ^[5]

	Parties	Seats
	Indian National Congress	10
	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	7
		3
	Pattali Makkal Katchi	2
	Puducherry Munnetra Congress	3
	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1
	Communist Party of India	1
	Independents	3

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		80.97%	Nandha T. Saravanan		11,658	54.44%	A. Kasilingam		6,779	31.66%	4,879
2		77.76%	K. Lakshminarayanan		4,942	49.05%	G. Ravichandiran		4,726	46.90%	216
3		76.71%	S. P. Sivakumar		2,590	65.95%	P. K. Devadoss		1,094	27.86%	1,496
4		79.65%	Bussy N. Anand		2,423	54.06%	Annibal Kennedy		1,952	43.55%	471
5		89.08%	A. Anbalagan		9,200	58.05%	U. C. Arumugam		6,131	38.68%	3,069
6		85.49%			8,509	52.61%			6,549	40.49%	1,960
7		84.43%	Omsakthi Sekar		9,933	51.69%			8,490	44.18%	1,443
8		87.85%	Dr. M. A. S. Subramanian		10,783	37.22%	P. Kannan		9,379	32.38%	1,404
9		89.32%	R. K. R. Anantharaman		13,314	51.39%			11,512	44.43%	1,802
10		89.05%	R. Rajaraman		7,208	40.56%	L. Periyasamy		6,683	37.61%	525
11		90.41%			9,166	52.20%	V. Muthunarayanan		7,830	44.60%	1,336
12		90.10%	R. Radhakrishnan		13,020	74.66%	B. Navaneetha Kannan		3,557	20.40%	9,463
13		90.87%	M. Kandasamy		11,164	60.06%	P. Rajavelu		6,888	37.05%	4,276
14		88.92%	Angalane		10,534	49.91%	S. Komala		6,378	30.22%	4,156
15		90.01%	P. Arulmurugan		8,193	42.41%	N. Rajaram		6,386	33.06%	1,807
16		92.18%			6,417	34.58%	P. Soundiraradjou Ponnas		3,755	20.23%	2,662
17		89.10%	J. Narayanasamy		11,950	49.35%	C. Djeacoumar		10,441	43.12%	1,509
18		88.34%			14,072	48.10%	K. Natarajan		12,824	43.83%	1,248
19		84.30%			27,024	90.16%	T. Gunasekaran		2,026	6.76%	24,998
20		77.08%	R. Viswanathan		17,314	50.43%			13,925	40.56%	3,389
21		80.65%			17,944	43.03%	G. Anandhamurugesan		10,986	26.35%	6,958
22		87.29%	V. Omalingam		10,116	50.25%	P. R. N. Thirumurugan		9,094	45.17%	1,022
23		80.25%			5,742	45.20%	A. J. Assana		5,551	43.70%	191
24		86.74%	V. K. Ganapathy		7,970	55.06%			6,231	43.05%	1,739
25		86.57%			4,946	31.41%	V. M. C. V. Ganapathy		4,762	30.24%	184
26		87.85%			7,237	49.69%	R. Kamalakkannan		6,952	47.73%	285
27		88.40%	A. Marimuthu		6,143	43.47%	M. Chandirakasu		5,306	37.54%	837
28		80.00%	E. Valsaraj		5,647	55.74%	T. Ashok Kumar		3,700	36.52%	1,947
29		78.14%	A. V. Sreedharan		5,987	53.35%	T. K. Gangadharan		4,512	40.20%	1,475
30		96.74%			11,763	64.89%	Raksha Harikrishna		5,457	30.10%	6,306

See also

• Government of Puducherry
• Puducherry Legislative Assembly
• Pondicherry Representative Assembly
• List of chief ministers of Puducherry
• List of speakers of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly
• List of lieutenant governors of Puducherry
• 2011 Puducherry Legislative Assembly election

Notes and References

1. News: After 6 years, Pondicherry is back in coalition mode. 11 May 2006. The Times of India. en-IN. 30 June 2022.
2. Web site: N Rangasamy appointed Pondicherry CM. 13 May 2006. Rediff. en-IN. 28 June 2022.
3. Web site: Cong, PMK ink poll pact in Pondy. 14 April 2006. oneindia. en-IN. 30 June 2022.
4. Three in a row . S.. Viswanathan. 2 June 2006. Frontline. 30 June 2022.
5. Web site: Pondicherry Assembly Election Results in 2006. Elections . 28 June 2022.