# 2024 Indian general election in Puducherry

The 2024 Indian general election was held in Puducherry on 19 April 2024 to elect 1 member of the 18th Lok Sabha.

## Election Schedule

| Poll event | Phase |
| Poll event | 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
### Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance

| Party | Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats |
| | Indian National Congress | | | V. Vaithilingam | 1 |

### National Democratic Alliance

| Party | Party | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested |
| | Bharatiya Janata Party | | A. Namassivayam | 1 |

### Others

| Party | Leader | Contesting Seats |
| All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | A. Anbalagan | 1 |
| Bahujan Samaj Party | D Alangaravelu | 1 |
| Naam Tamilar Katchi | R Menaga | 1 |
| Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | P Sankaran | 1 |
| United Republican Party of India | K Prabhu Devan | 1 |

## Candidates

| Constituency | Constituency | | | | | | | | | |
| Constituency | Constituency | INDIA | INDIA | INDIA | NDA | NDA | NDA | Others | Others | Others |
| 1 | Puducherry | | INC | V. Vaithilingam | | BJP | A. Namassivayam | | AIADMK | G. Thamizhvendan |
| 1 | Puducherry | | INC | V. Vaithilingam | | BJP | A. Namassivayam | | BSP | D. Alangaravelu |
| 1 | Puducherry | | INC | V. Vaithilingam | | BJP | A. Namassivayam | | NTK | R. Menaga |

## Surveys and polls
### Opinion polls

| Polling agency | Date published | Margin of Error | | | | Lead |
| Polling agency | Date published | Margin of Error | NDA | INDIA | Others | Lead |
| ABP News-CVoter | March 2024 | ±5% | 0 | 1 | 0 | INDIA |

### Exit polls

| Polling agency | | | | Lead |
| Polling agency | NDA | INDIA | Others | Lead |
| Actual Results | 0 | 1 | 0 | INDIA |

## Results
### Results by party

| Alliance/ Party | Alliance/ Party | Alliance/ Party | Alliance/ Party | Popular vote | Popular vote | Popular vote | Seat | Seat | Seat |
| Alliance/ Party | Alliance/ Party | Alliance/ Party | Alliance/ Party | Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− |
| | INDIA | | INC | 4,26,005 | 52.73% | 2.54 | 1 | 1 | |
| | NDA | | BJP | 2,89,489 | 35.83% | 4.47 | 1 | 0 | |
| | NTK | NTK | NTK | 39,603 | 4.90% | 2.01 | 1 | 0 | |
| | AIADMK | AIADMK | AIADMK | 25,165 | 3.10% | New | 1 | 0 | |
| | Others | Others | Others | 4,595 | 0.57% | 5.73 | 3 | 0 | |
| | IND | IND | IND | 13,320 | 1.64% | 5.73 | 19 | 0 | |
| | NOTA | NOTA | NOTA | 9,763 | 1.20% | 0.34 | | | |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 8,07,940 | 100% | - | 26 | 1 | - |

### Results by constituency

| Constituency | Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Margin |
| Constituency | Constituency | Turnout | Party | Party | Alliance | Alliance | Candidate | Votes | % | Party | Party | Alliance | Alliance | Candidate | Votes | % | Margin |
| 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 | Party | Assembly segments | Position in Assembly (as of 2021 election) |
| | 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 | Total | 30 | 30 |