2024 Indian general election in Puducherry
Election to constitute the 18th Lok Sabha in 2024 for Puducherry From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2024 Indian general election was held in Puducherry on 19 April 2024 to elect 1 member of the 18th Lok Sabha.[1]
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1 Puducherry seat in the Lok Sabha | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 78.80% (2.45%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Election Schedule
| Poll event | Phase |
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| Notification Date | 20 March |
| Last Date for filing nomination | 27 March |
| Scrutiny of nomination | 28 March |
| Last Date for withdrawal of nomination | 30 March |
| Date of poll | 19 April |
| Date of counting of votes/Result | 4 June 2024 |
| No. of constituencies | 1 |
Parties and Alliances
Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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| Indian National Congress |  |
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V. Vaithilingam | 1 | |
National Democratic Alliance
| Party | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
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| Bharatiya Janata Party |  |
A. Namassivayam | 1 | |
Others
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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| All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |  |
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A. Anbalagan | 1 | |
| Bahujan Samaj Party |  |
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D Alangaravelu | 1 | |
| Naam Tamilar Katchi |  |
R Menaga | 1 | ||
| Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) |  |
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P Sankaran | 1 | |
| United Republican Party of India | K Prabhu Devan | 1 | |||
Candidates
| Constituency | ||||||||||
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| INDIA | NDA | Others | ||||||||
| 1 | Puducherry | INC | V. Vaithilingam | BJP | A. Namassivayam | AIADMK | G. Thamizhvendan | |||
| BSP | D. Alangaravelu | |||||||||
| NTK | R. Menaga | |||||||||
Surveys and polls
Opinion polls
Exit polls
Results
Results by party
Results by constituency
| Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | |||||||||||||
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| Party | Alliance | Candidate | Votes | % | Party | Alliance | Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||||
| 1 | Puducherry | 78.90% |
INC | INDIA | V. Vaithilingam | 4,26,005 | 52.73% | BJP | NDA | A. Namassivayam | 2,89,489 | 35.83% | 1,36,516 | ||||
Assembly segments wise lead of Parties
| Party | Assembly segments | Position in Assembly (as of 2021 election) | |
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| All India NR Congress | Not Contested | 10 | |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 2 | 6 | |
| Indian National Congress | 28 | 2 | |
| Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | Not Contested | 6 | |
| Others | 0 | 6 | |
| Total | 30 | ||
See also
References
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