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
edit| Poll event | Phase |
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| I | |
| 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
edit| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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| Indian National Congress | 
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V. Vaithilingam | 1 | |
| Party | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
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| Bharatiya Janata Party | 
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A. Namassivayam | 1 | |
Others
edit| 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 | 
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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
edit| 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
editOpinion polls
edit| Polling agency | Date published | Margin of Error | Lead | |||
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| NDA | INDIA | Others | ||||
| ABP News-CVoter | March 2024[2] | ±5% | 0 | 1 | 0 | INDIA |
Exit polls
edit| Polling agency | Lead | |||
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| NDA | INDIA | Others | ||
| Actual Results | 0 | 1 | 0 | INDIA |
Results
editResults by party
edit| Alliance/ Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
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| Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
| INDIA | INC | 4,26,005 | 52.73% | 2.54
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1 | 1 | 
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| NDA | BJP | 2,89,489 | 35.83% |  4.47
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1 | 0 |
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| NTK | 39,603 | 4.90% | 2.01
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1 | 0 |
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| AIADMK | 25,165 | 3.10% | New | 1 | 0 |
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| Others | 4,595 | 0.57% | 5.73
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3 | 0 |
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| IND | 13,320 | 1.64% | 19 | 0 |
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| NOTA | 9,763 | 1.20% | 0.34
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| Total | 8,07,940 | 100% | - | 26 | 1 | - | |||
Results by constituency
edit| Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | |||||||||||||
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| Party | Alliance | Candidate | Votes | % | Party | Alliance | Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||||
| 1 | Puducherry | 78.90%
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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
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| 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
editReferences
edit- ^ "2024 Lok Sabha polls: BJP leaders of 12 eastern, northeastern states to meet in Guwahati". Economic Times. 6 July 2023.
- ^ ABP News Bureau (14 March 2024). "ABP-CVoter Opinion Poll: NDA Set To Sweep UTs, I.N.D.I.A Likely To Win Lakshadweep, Puducherry". news.abplive.com. Retrieved 17 March 2024.