Puducherry Lok Sabha Constituency: Full list of candidates, polling dates

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Puducherry Lok Sabha constituency is the only constituency in the Union Territory of Puducherry.

Puducherry registered 81.21 percent voter turnout in 2019, a loss of 0.77 percent. The total number of electors in the constituency is 973161 while the total voter turnout is 790328. While in 2014, the constituency registered 81.98 percent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 900874 while the total voter's turnout was 738502.

As per the implementation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India in 1962, Pondicherry became a Union Territory.

The Puducherry Lok Sabha constituency is not reserved for Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes candidates.

According to the 2011 Census, the total population here is 12,47,953. The literacy rate is also high, which is 85.85%.

Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Puducherry Lok Sabha Constituency.

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	Dr. NARAYANASAMY KESAVAN	All India N.R. Congress
2	A.G.PATHIMARAJ	Bahujan Samaj Party
3	Ve. VAITHILINGAM	Indian National Congress
4	K.ARUNACHALAM	Agila India Makkal Kazhagam
5	Dr.M.A.S. SUBRAMANIAN	Makkal Needhi Maiam
6	S. THIRUGNANAM	Anti Corruption Dynamic Party
7	BASKARAN.S	Puducherry Development Party
8	MUTHU.U	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
9	S.MOTHILAL	Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)
10	N.SHARMILA BEGUM	Naam Tamilar Katchi
11	K. RAMADOSS	Independent
12	KRISHNAMURTHY.M	Independent
13	THANGAVELU.S	Independent
14	N. TAMIZH MARANE	Independent
15	TIRAVITAMANKAI@LOURDHUMARY	Independent
16	IMS. BALAJI	Independent
17	RAMESH.D	Independent
18	V. RAMAMURTHI	Independent

The electors in the Puducherry Lok Sabha Constituency cast their votes on April 18 in the second phase of 2019 Lok Sabha election. 

The result will be out on May 23. 

R Radhakrishnan of the All India NR Congress (AINRC) is the sitting member of Parliament from the Puducherry Lok Sabha constituency.

In the 2014 Lok Saha polls, R Radhakrishnan was elected from this seat. The AINRC candidate defeated V Narayanasamy from Indian National Congress (INC) by a margin of 60,854 votes.

The candidates from All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Pattali Makkal Katchi(PMK), Communist Party of India (CPI) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) also competed for this seat in the 2014 Lok Sabha election.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the primary electoral contest for the seat is between the AINRC, AIADMK, DMK, CPI, All India Trinamool Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress. 

Lok Sabha election 2019 took place in seven phases across the country – on April 11, April 18, April 23, April 29, May 6, May 12 and May 19. The results would be declared on May 23.