2001 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election

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Elections to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly were held in 2001, to elect members of the 30 constituencies in Puducherry (then known as Pondicherry), in India.^[1]^[2] The Indian National Congress won the popular vote and the most seats, and P. Shanmugam was appointed as the Chief Minister of Puducherry.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Schedule

Event	Date
Date for Nominations	16 April 2001
Last Date for filing Nominations	23 April 2001
Date for scrutiny of nominations	24 April 2001
Last date for withdrawal of candidatures	26 April 2001
Date of poll	10 May 2001
Date of counting	13 May 2001

Seat allotments

Party/Alliance				Electoral symbol	Leader	Seats contested
rowspan=3 Template:Party color cell	INC+	Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress		P. Shanmugam	21
Template:Party color cell		Tamil Maanila Congress		G. K. Moopanar	7
Template:Party color cell		Communist Party of India		R. Nallakannu	2
rowspan=4 Template:Party color cell	NDA	Template:Party color cell	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam		M. Karunanidhi	15*
Template:Party color cell		Puducherry Makkal Congress		P. Kannan	9
Template:Party color cell		Bharatiya Janata Party		L. K. Advani	5
Template:Party color cell		Janata Dal (United)		Nitish Kumar	1
rowspan=2 Template:Party color cell	AIADMK+	Template:Party color cell	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam		J. Jayalalithaa	20
Template:Party color cell	AIADMK+	Pattali Makkal Katchi		Dr. Ramadoss	10

NOTE:

Including 2 Constituencies where Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi contesting on Rising Sun symbol.

List of Candidates

Constituency		colspan="3" style="background:Template:Party color" \|INC+	colspan="3" style="background:Template:Party color" \|NDA	colspan="3" style="background:Template:Party color" \|AIADMK + PMK
No.	Name	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party	Candidate
1	Muthialpet	Template:Party name with color	G. Palaniraja	Template:Party name with color	Raja Chandrasekaran	Template:Party name with color	A. Kasilingam
2	Cassicade	Template:Party name with color	V. Balaji	Template:Party name with color	K. Lakshminarayanan	Template:Party name with color	R. Malar Mannan
3	Raj Bhavan	Template:Party name with color	A. Gandhiraj	Template:Party name with color	S. P. Sivakumar	Template:Party name with color	M. Pandurangan
4	Bussy	Template:Party name with color	A. Abdul Rachide	Template:Party name with color	Annibal Kennedy	Template:Party name with color	S. Babu Ansardeen
5	Oupalamp	Template:Party name with color	N. Naghamuthu	Template:Party name with color	P. Pandian	Template:Party name with color	A. Anbalagan
6	Orleampeth	Template:Party name with color	C. Pandourangame	Template:Party name with color	R. Siva	Template:Party name with color	G. Chezhian
7	Nellithope	Template:Party name with color	E. Puviarasu	Template:Party name with color	R. V. Janakiraman	Template:Party name with color	Dr. J. Nannan
8	Modeliarpeth	Template:Party name with color	V. Sabapathy alias Kothandaraman	Template:Party name with color	Dr. M. A. S. Subramanian	Template:Party name with color	A. Ravindran
9	Ariankuppam	Template:Party name with color	K. Vinayagamourthy	Template:Party name with color	S. Ilangovan	Template:Party name with color	R. K. R. Anantharaman
10	Embalom (SC)	Template:Party name with color	N. Gangadaran	Template:Party name with color	S. Palanivelu	Template:Party name with color	M. Nagamany
11	Nettapakkam	Template:Party name with color	V. Vaithilingam	Template:Party name with color	V. Muthunarayanan	Template:Party name with color	K. Dhanraju
12	Kuruvinatham	Template:Party name with color	T. Thiagarajan	Template:Party name with color	R. Radhakrishnan	Template:Party name with color	T. Vikkiraman
13	Bahour (SC)	Template:Party name with color	M. Kandasamy	Template:Party name with color	P. Rajavelu	Template:Party name with color	K. Deivanayagam
14	Thirubuvanai (SC)	Template:Party name with color	P. Angalan	Template:Party name with color	D. Angalan	Template:Party name with color	S. Arasi
15	Mannadipeth	Template:Party name with color	N. Rajaram	Template:Party name with color	S. Srinivasan	Template:Party name with color	D. Ramachandran
16	Ossudu (SC)	Template:Party name with color	P. Sundhararaju	Template:Party name with color	A. Elumalai	Template:Party name with color	S. Balaraman
17	Villenour	Template:Party name with color	C. Djeacoumar	Template:Party name with color	J. Narayanasamy	Template:Party name with color	Ramane
18	Ozhukarai	Template:Party name with color	A. Namassivayam	Template:Party name with color	N. Balane B.Sc.	Template:Party name with color	K. Natarajan
19	Thattanchavady	Template:Party name with color	N. Rangaswamy	Template:Party name with color	V. Pethaperumal	Template:Party name with color	N. Ragupathy
20	Reddiarpalayam	Template:Party name with color	R. Viswanathan	Template:Party name with color	A. M. Krishnamurthy	Template:Party name with color	N. G. Pannirselvam
21	Lawspet	Template:Party name with color	M. O. H. F. Shahjahan	Template:Party name with color	N. Kesavan	Template:Party name with color	K. Kalaiselvi
22	Cotchery	Template:Party name with color	R. Nalamagarajan	Template:Party name with color	S. Elangovan	Template:Party name with color	M. Ramadass
23	Karaikal North	Template:Party name with color	S. Ramassamy	Template:Party name with color	A. M. H. Nazeem	Template:Party name with color	A. J. Assana
24	Karaikal South	Template:Party name with color	A. V. Subramanian	Template:Party name with color	V. K. Ganapathy	Template:Party name with color	S. P. Karuppaiya
25	Neravy-Grand Aldee	Template:Party name with color	V. M. C. V. Ganapathy	Template:Party name with color	V. M. C. Sivakumar	Template:Party name with color	V. M. C. Raja alias V. M. C. Sivashanmuganathan
26	Tirunallar	Template:Party name with color	R. Kamalakannan	Template:Party name with color	N. V. R. Arivoli	Template:Party name with color	S. Ambalavanan
27	Neduncadu (SC)	Template:Party name with color	M. Chandirakasu	Template:Party name with color	A. Marimuthu	Template:Party name with color	P. Packirisamy
28	Mahe	Template:Party name with color	E. Valsaraj	Template:Party name with color	East Namath Rajeendran	Template:Party name with color	K. Lakshmanan
29	Palloor	Template:Party name with color	A. V. Sreedharan	Template:Party name with color	C. P. Ganeshan	Template:Party name with color	N. K. Sachindranath
30	Yanam	Template:Party name with color	Elaprolu Chittibabu	Template:Party name with color	Gollapalli Gangadhara Pratap	Template:Party name with color	Giddi Sri Hari Rao

Results

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Results by Pre-Poll alliance

colspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|INC+	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|Contested	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|WON	colspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|[[National Democratic Alliance\|Template:White]]	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|Contested	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|WON	colspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|[[AIADMK-led Alliance\|Template:White]]	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|Contested	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|WON	Others			WON
INC	width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	21	11	DMK	width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	13	7	AIADMK	width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	20	3	IND	2
TMC	width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	7	2	PMC	width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	9	4	PMK	width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	10	0
CPI	width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	2	0	BJP	width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	5	1
				DPI	width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	2	0
				JDU	width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	1	0
Total			13	Total			12	Total			style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|3	Total	2
Change			Template:Decrease 3	Change			Template:Increase 4	Change			style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|Template:Decrease 1	Change	0

Results by Post-Poll alliance

colspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|INC+	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|SEATS	colspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|NDA	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|SEATS	Others		SEATS
INC	width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	11	DMK	width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	7	IND	2
TMC	width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	2	PMC	width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	4
AIADMK	width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	3	BJP	width="3px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	1
Total		16	Total		12	Total	2

Elected members

Winner, runner-up, voter turnout, and victory margin in every constituency
Assembly Constituency		Turnout	Winner					Runner Up					Margin
#k	Names	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Margin
1	Muthialpet	64.67%	A. Kasilingam	Template:Party name with color	6,857	38.02%	Raja Chandrasekaran	Template:Party name with color	4,947	27.43%	1,910
2	Cassicade	68.44%	K. Lakshminarayanan	Template:Party name with color	4,875	51.52%	R. Malar Mannan	Template:Party name with color	3,097	32.73%	1,778
3	Raj Bhavan	65.75%	S. P. Sivakumar	Template:Party name with color	2,408	57.79%	A. Gandhiraj	Template:Party name with color	1,308	31.39%	1,100
4	Bussy	51.02%	Annibal Kennedy	Template:Party name with color	3,087	63.77%	S. Babu Ansardeen	Template:Party name with color	904	18.67%	2,183
5	Oupalam	72.89%	A. Anbalagan	Template:Party name with color	8,416	59.24%	P. Pandian	Template:Party name with color	5,044	35.50%	3,372
6	Orleampeth	70.28%	R. Siva	Template:Party name with color	7,608	49.41%	G. Chezhian	Template:Party name with color	4,223	27.42%	3,385
7	Nellithope	75.41%	R. V. Janakiraman	Template:Party name with color	7,780	51.42%	Dr. J. Nannan	Template:Party name with color	5,839	38.59%	1,941
8	Mudaliarpet	73.23%	Dr. M. A. S. Subramanian	Template:Party name with color	9,119	40.98%	V. Sababady Kothandraman	Template:Party name with color	7,616	34.22%	1,503
9	Ariankuppam	74.12%	T. Jayamoorthy	Template:Party name with color	9,790	45.23%	K. R. Anantharaman	Template:Party name with color	5,628	26.00%	4,162
10	Embalam	74.87%	N. Gangadaran	Template:Party name with color	3,723	25.44%	S. Palanivelu	Template:Party name with color	3,087	21.10%	636
11	Nettapakkam	79.40%	V. Vaithilingam	Template:Party name with color	5,984	39.47%	K. Dhanraju	Template:Party name with color	4,771	31.47%	1,213
12	Kuruvinatham	83.57%	R. Radhakrishnan	Template:Party name with color	8,000	50.58%	T. Thiagarajan	Template:Party name with color	5,979	37.81%	2,021
13	Bahour	79.21%	P. Rajavelu	Template:Party name with color	7,696	48.91%	M. Kandasamy	Template:Party name with color	5,063	32.18%	2,633
14	Thirubuvanai	76.21%	P. Angalane	Template:Party name with color	4,753	28.60%	Durai Arivudainambi	Template:Party name with color	3,949	23.76%	804
15	Mannadipet	79.09%	D. Ramachandran	Template:Party name with color	8,939	55.29%	N. Rajaram	Template:Party name with color	4,237	26.21%	4,702
16	Ossudu	81.22%	Abar Elumalai	Template:Party name with color	5,364	34.65%	S. Balaraman	Template:Party name with color	5,200	33.59%	164
17	Villianur	80.72%	C. Djeacoumar	Template:Party name with color	10,335	50.51%	J. Narayanasamy	Template:Party name with color	6,246	30.52%	4,089
18	Ozhukarai	71.96%	A. Namassivayam	Template:Party name with color	10,164	45.49%	K. Natarajan	Template:Party name with color	6,021	26.95%	4,143
19	Thattanchavady	67.87%	N. Rangaswamy	Template:Party name with color	14,323	58.90%	V. Pethaperumal	Template:Party name with color	8,769	36.06%	5,554
20	Reddiarpalayam	70.12%	A. M. Krishnamurthy	Template:Party name with color	11,446	44.85%	R. Viswanathan	Template:Party name with color	7,985	31.29%	3,461
21	Lawspet	65.51%	M. O. H. F. Shahjahan	Template:Party name with color	12,929	38.51%	N. Kesavan	Template:Party name with color	10,962	32.65%	1,967
22	Cotchery	71.10%	R. Nalamagarajan	Template:Party name with color	7,058	43.50%	M. Ramadass	Template:Party name with color	5,382	33.17%	1,676
23	Karaikal North	61.17%	A. M. H. Nazeem	Template:Party name with color	6,273	46.92%	A. J. Assana	Template:Party name with color	3,969	29.69%	2,304
24	Karaikal South	69.85%	A. V. Subramanian	Template:Party name with color	6,138	51.39%	V. K. Ganapathy	Template:Party name with color	5,229	43.78%	909
25	Neravy T R Pattinam	71.52%	V. M. C. Sivakumar	Template:Party name with color	6,672	46.96%	V. M. C. V. Ganapathy	Template:Party name with color	3,741	26.33%	2,931
26	Thirunallar	74.22%	R. Kamalakkannan	Template:Party name with color	5,390	42.00%	N. V. R. Arivoli	Template:Party name with color	4,615	35.96%	775
27	Nedungadu	76.17%	M. Chandirakasu	Template:Party name with color	5,720	45.35%	A. Marimuthu	Template:Party name with color	4,660	36.95%	1,060
28	Mahe	72.95%	E. Valsaraj	Template:Party name with color	5,666	59.87%	Manoli Muhammad	Template:Party name with color	3,131	33.08%	2,535
29	Palloor	71.01%	A. V. Sreedharan	Template:Party name with color	4,855	49.23%	P. Dineshan	Template:Party name with color	3,392	34.40%	1,463
30	Yanam	83.43%	Malladi Krishna Rao	Template:Party name with color	8,959	57.34%	Gollapalli Gangadhara Pratap	Template:Party name with color	5,981	38.28%	2,978

References

↑ Explained: Puducherry, the territory of coalitions and President's Rule(26 March 2021). Retrieved 4 September 2022.
↑ Union Territory of Pondicherry Assembly - General Elections - 2001. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
↑ Former Puducherry chief minister Shanmugam dead. Newstrackindia.com.
↑ Former Puducherry CM Shanmugam passes away. The Hindu(3 February 2013).
↑ Pondicherry Legislative Assembly. Retrieved 8 September 2022.

External links

Record of all Puducherry Assembly elections. eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 19 May 2022.

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[1] Explained: Puducherry, the territory of coalitions and President's Rule(26 March 2021). Retrieved 4 September 2022.

[2] Union Territory of Pondicherry Assembly - General Elections - 2001. Retrieved 4 September 2022.

[3] Former Puducherry chief minister Shanmugam dead. Newstrackindia.com.

[4] Former Puducherry CM Shanmugam passes away. The Hindu(3 February 2013).

[5] Pondicherry Legislative Assembly. Retrieved 8 September 2022.

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