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2021 Puducherry Legislative Assembly election
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All 30 seats in the Puducherry Legislative Assembly
16 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader V. Narayanasamy N. Rangaswamy
Party INC AINRC
Alliance UPA NDA
Leader since 2016 2011
Leader's seat Not Contesting Thattanchavady Yanam
Last election 15 8
Seats before 9[a] 7[b]
Chief Minister before election

President's rule
Nonpartisan

Elected Chief Minister

TBD

The fifteenth legislative assembly election is to be held on 6 April 2021 to elect members from 30 constituencies of the Legislative Assembly in the union territory of Puducherry in India.[1][2]

Background

In the previous elections in 2016, the election brought a change of power as the All India N.R. Congress (AINRC), which had formed the government under N. Rangaswamy, lost its majority to the Indian National Congress (INC), led by V. Narayanasamy.

In the previous elections in 2016 Indian National Congress (INC) emerged as Single Largest Party[3] with 15 seats, with the support of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) the government was formed.[4]

Campaigning

Issues

Campaign controversies

Party campaigns

Party manifestos

Campaign finance

Schedule

Event Date
Date for Nominations 12 March 2021
Last Date for filing Nominations 19 March 2021
Date for scrutiny of nominations 20 March 2021
Last date for withdrawal of candidatures 22 March 2021
Date of poll 6 April 2021
Date of counting 2 May 2021
Date before which the election shall be completed 24 May 2021

Parties and alliances

Constituency sharing of UPA allies for the 2021 Puducherry Legislative Assembly election

  United Progressive Alliance

Party Symbol Leader Contesting Seats
bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color"| Indian National Congress INC V. Narayanasamy 14
bgcolor="Template:Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color"| Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam DMK M.K.Stalin 13
bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of India/meta/color"| Communist Party of India CPI A. M. Saleem 1
bgcolor="Template:Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi/meta/color"| Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi VCK Thol. Thirumavalavan 1
Independent IND Whistle Gollapalli Srinivas Ashok 1
Constituency sharing of NDA allies for the 2021 Puducherry Legislative Assembly election

  National Democratic Alliance

Party Symbol Leader Contesting Seats
bgcolor="Template:All India N.R. Congress/meta/color"| All India N.R. Congress AINRC Jug N. Rangaswamy 16
bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color"| Bharatiya Janata Party BJP A. Namassivayam 9
bgcolor="Template:All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color"| All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam AIADMK A. Anbazhagan 5

  AMMK+

Party Symbol Leader Contesting Seats
bgcolor="Template:Amma Makkal Munnettra Kazagam/meta/color"| Amma Makkal Munnettra Kazagam AMMK Pressure Cooker T. T. V. Dhinakaran 25
bgcolor="Template:Social Democratic Party of India/meta/color"| Social Democratic Party of India SDPI V. M. S. Mohamed Mubarak 4

  Parties not in any coalition

Party Symbol Leader Contesting Seats
bgcolor="Template:Naam Tamilar Katchi/meta/color"| Naam Tamilar Katchi NTK Seeman 28
bgcolor="Template:Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam/meta/color"| Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam DMDK Vijayakanth 26
bgcolor="Template:Makkal Needhi Maiam/meta/color" | Makkal Needhi Maiam MNM Kamal Hassan 22
bgcolor="Template:Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi/meta/color" | Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi IJK File:Indian Election Symbol Auto Rickshaw.png T. R. Paarivendhar 21
bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color"| Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M) 1

Candidates

List Of Candidates[5]
Assembly Constituency colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color"|UPA colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" |NDA colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Makkal Needhi Maiam/meta/color" |MNM colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Amma Makkal Munnettra Kazagam/meta/color" |AMMK colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam/meta/color" |DMDK colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Naam Tamilar Katchi/meta/color" |NTK
# Name Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate
Puducherry District
1 Mannadipet DMK A. Krishnan BJP A. Namassivayam MNM P. Gopalakrishnan AMMK C. Dhanavelu DMDK S. Manikandan NTK Chitra
2 Thirubuvanai DMK A. Mugilan AINRC B.Gobika MNM D. Ramesh AMMK K. Silambarasan DMDK T. Vinayagamoorthy NTK Ranjith
3 Ossudu (SC) INC Karthikeyan BJP J. Saravana Kumar MNM K. Sankar AMMK Muthalu Venkatesan DMDK R. Babou NTK Geetha Priya
4 Mangalam DMK Sankumaravel AINRC C. Jayakumar MNM M. Subramani AMMK M. Ganapathi DMDK S. Patchaiappan NTK Bharath Kalai
5 Villianur DMK R. Siva AINRC S.V.Sugumaran MNM A. Banumathi AMMK K. Kumaravel DMDK A. Fazil NTK Praveena
6 Ozhukarai VCK D.Angalane AINRC G.Pannirselvam MNM R. Palanivelan AMMK R.K. Raja (A) Ezhumalai DMDK Gilbert NTK Priya
7 Kadirkamam INC P. Selvanathan AINRC S.Ramesh MNM K. Sadhanandam AMMK Selva Ganesan DMDK S. Motcharajan NTK Subhasri
8 Indira Nagar INC M. Kannan AINRC V. Arumugam A.K.D. MNM P. Sakthivel AMMK D. Mohan DMDK K. Ezhumalai NTK Devika
9 Thattanchavady bgcolor=Template:Communist Party of India/meta/color | CPI K. Sethu Selvam AINRC N. Rangaswamy MNM R. Rajendran AMMK Vimala Sri DMDK S. T. Narassingam NTK Ramesh
10 Kamaraj Nagar INC M. O. H. F. Shahjahan BJP A. Johnkumar AMMK Munnuswamy DMDK N.Nadarajan NTK Sharmila Begum
11 Lawspet INC M. Vaithianathan BJP V. Saminathan MNM D. Sathya Moorthi AMMK L. Kamachi DMDK A. Boopalan NTK Nirmal Singh
12 Kalapet DMK S. Muthuvel BJP P. M. L. Kalyanasundaram MNM Gr. Chandra Mohan AMMK P. Kaliamurthy DMDK S. Hariharan NTK Kamaraj
13 Muthialpet INC S. Senthil Kumaran AIADMK Vaiyapuri Manikandan MNM K. Saravanan AMMK K.Murugan DMDK A. Arunagiri NTK FarithaBegum
14 Raj Bhavan DMK S.P. Sivakumar AINRC K. Lakshminarayanan MNM S. Parvatha Vardhini AMMK G. Satishkumar NTK Anthony Sharmila
15 Oupalam DMK V. Anipaul Kennedy AIADMK A. Anbalagan MNM P. Santhosh Kumar AMMK Baskar DMDK V. Sasikumar NTK Devi Priya
16 Orleampeth DMK S. Gopal AIADMK Omsakthi Sekar MNM S. Sakthivel AMMK A. Siraj (A) Kanimuhammed DMDK R. Cadiressan NTK Karunanidhi
17 Nellithope DMK V. Karthikeyan BJP Vivilian Richards Johnkumar MNM P.Murugesan SDPI R.Anifa DMDK A. Poovaragavan NTK Sasikumar
18 Mudaliarpet DMK L. Sampath AIADMK A. Baskar MNM M. Ari Krishnan AMMK M. Manikandan NTK Velavan
19 Ariankuppam INC T. Jayamurthy AINRC R.Datchanamourtty MNM V. Rudhra Kumar SDPI A.Mohamad Kassim DMDK Lourdusamy NTK Sundaravadivelu
20 Manavely INC R. K. R. Anantharaman BJP Embalam R. Selvam MNM Sundarambal AMMK R. Veerapudhiran DMDK V. Thirunavukarasu NTK Elangovan
21 Embalam INC M. kandassamy AINRC U.LakshmiKandhan MNM N. Somanath AMMK E. Balashankar NTK Kumaran
22 Nettapakkam INC V. Vijayaveny AINRC P.Rajavelu MNM B. Gnana Volli AMMK Selvam NTK Gowri
23 Bahour DMK R. R. Senthil AINRC N.Danavelu MNM Susai AMMK Velmurugan NTK Gnanaprakash
Karaikal District
24 Nedungadu INC A. Marimuthu AINRC S.ChandraPriyanga MNM Aravindraj AMMK Rajendran NTK Nivedha
25 Thirunallar INC R. Kamalakannan BJP G. N. S. Rajasekaran MNM Picharaj AMMK Dharbaranyam NTK Sikkandar Badsha
26 Karaikal North INC A. V. Subramanian AINRC P.R.N Thirumurugan MNM K. Suresh SDPI M. Thameem Kani NTK Anushya
27 Karaikal South DMK A.M.H. Nazeem AIADMK K. A. U. Asana bgcolor="Template:Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi/meta/color"| IJK A. Nepoliean AMMK S. Mohamed Seedique NTK Maari Anthuvan
28 Neravy T R Pattinam DMK M. Nagathiyagarajan BJP V. M. C. S. Manokaran MNM Muhammed Haja Bathrudeen AMMK C. Dhandapani NTK Muhammed Yusuf
Mahe District
29 Mahe INC Ramesh Parambath AINRC V. P. Abdul Rahman MNM Jalal SDPI
Yanam District
30 Yanam IND Gollapalli Srinivas Ashok AINRC N. Rangaswamy AMMK Peddapatti Rajeshbabu

Opinion Polls

Date published Polling agency style="background:Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" | style="background:Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" | style="background:Template:AITC/meta/color" | Lead
NDA UPA Others
15 March 2021 ABP News - CVoter[6] 16-20 10-14 0 style="background:Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color;" |2-10
8 March 2021 Times Now - CVoter[7] 18 12 0 style="background:Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color;" |6

Result

Results by Party and Alliance

colspan="2" style="background:Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color ; color:white;"|NDA style="background:Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color ; color:white;"|SEATS colspan="2" style="background:Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color; color:white;"|UPA style="background:Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color; color:white;"|SEATS colspan="2" style="background:Template:Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color; color:white;"|AMMK+ style="background:Template:Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color; color:white;"|SEATS colspan="2" style="background:Template:Makkal Needhi Maiam/meta/color; color:white;"|MNM+ style="background:Template:Makkal Needhi Maiam/meta/color; color:white;"|SEATS Others SEATS
AINRC width="3px" style="background-color: Template:All India N.R. Congress/meta/color"| TBD INC width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color"| TBD AMMK width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Amma Makkal Munnettra Kazagam/meta/color"| TBD MNM width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Makkal Needhi Maiam/meta/color"| TBD IND TBD
BJP width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color"| TBD DMK width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color"| TBD SDPI width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Social Democratic Party of India/meta/color"| TBD IJK width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi/meta/color"| TBD NTK width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Naam Tamilar Katchi/meta/color"| TBD
AIADMK width="3px" style="background-color: Template:All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color"| TBD CPI TBD PMK width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Pattali Makkal Katchi/meta/color"| TBD
VCK width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi/meta/color"| TBD CPI(M) TBD
DMDK width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam/meta/color"| TBD
Total TBD Total TBD Total TBD Total TBD Total TBD
Change TBD Change TBD Change TBD Change TBD Change TBD

Results by constituency

Results
Assembly Constituency Turnout
(%) 		Winner Runner Up Margin
# Name Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes %
Puducherry District
1 Mannadipet TBD TBD
2 Thirubuvanai TBD TBD
3 Ossudu TBD TBD
4 Mangalam TBD TBD
5 Villianur TBD TBD
6 Ozhukarai TBD TBD
7 Kadirkamam TBD TBD
8 Indira Nagar TBD TBD
9 Thattanchavady TBD TBD
10 Kamaraj Nagar TBD TBD
11 Lawspet TBD TBD
12 Kalapet TBD TBD
13 Muthialpet TBD TBD
14 Raj Bhavan TBD TBD
15 Oupalam TBD TBD
16 Orleampeth TBD TBD
17 Nellithope TBD TBD
18 Mudaliarpet TBD TBD
19 Ariankuppam TBD TBD
20 Manavely TBD TBD
21 Embalam TBD TBD
22 Nettapakkam TBD TBD
23 Bahour TBD TBD
Karaikal District
24 Nedungadu TBD TBD
25 Thirunallar TBD TBD
26 Karaikal North TBD TBD
27 Karaikal South TBD TBD
28 Neravy T R Pattinam TBD TBD
Mahe District
29 Mahe TBD TBD
Yanam District
30 Yanam TBD TBD

Government Formation

See also

References

  1. ^ "Puducherry CM Narayanasamy brokers truce between DMK, Congress". The New Indian Express. 19 January 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
  2. ^ "BJP alliance to sweep Puducherry assembly polls: Asianet-C fore pre-poll survey". Hindustan Times. 16 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Congress emerges as the single largest party in Puducherry - Times of India". The Times of India.
  4. ^ "Congress-DMK front regains power in Pondy - Times of India". The Times of India.
  5. ^ "CANDIDATE AFFIDAVIT MANAGEMENT". Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  6. ^ "ABP CVoter Opinion Poll 2021: Voters' Mood Not In Favour Of Congress-Led Alliance In Puducherry, NDA Likely To Form Govt".
  7. ^ "Puducherry pre-poll survey 2021: 'Congress likely to lose its grip; NDA projected to form govt'". www.timesnownews.com.

Notes

  1. ^ Includes 1 Congress MLA who defected from the party
  2. ^ includes by–election results, NR Congress lost 1 seats and DMK gained 1 seat

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