# 2006 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election

Elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Indian Union Territory of Pondicherry took place in May 2006 to constitute the Twelfth Assembly of Pondicherry. The UPA alliance comprising Congress, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Pattali Makkal Katchi and Communist Party of India has won and N. Rangasamy of Congress got elected as chief minister.

## Parties and alliances

Source:

### Secular Progressive Alliance+United Progressive Alliance

| Party | Party | Leader | Contesting Seats |
| Indian National Congress | INC | N. Rangasamy | 16 |
| Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | DMK | A.M.H. Nazeem | 11 |
| Pattali Makkal Katchi | PMK | | 2 |
| Communist Party of India | CPI | | 1 |

### All India Anna DMK-led Alliance

| Party | Party | Leader | Contesting Seats |
| All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | AIADMK | A. Anbazhagan | 16 |
| Puducherry Munnetra Congress | PMC | P. Kannan | 10 |
| Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | MDMK | | 3 |
| Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi | VCK | | 1 |

## Results

Source:
Seats :
| Indian National Congress | 10 |
| Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 7 |
| All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 3 |
| Pattali Makkal Katchi | 2 |
| Puducherry Munnetra Congress | 3 |
| Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 1 |
| Communist Party of India | 1 |
| Independents | 3 |

## Elected members

Winner, runner-up, voter turnout, and victory margin in every constituency :
| Assembly Constituency | Assembly Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Margin |
| #k | Names | % | Candidate | Party | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Party | Votes | % | Margin |
| 1 | Muthialpet | 80.97% | Nandha T. Saravanan | | DMK | 11,658 | 54.44% | A. Kasilingam | | AIADMK | 6,779 | 31.66% | 4,879 |
| 2 | Cassicade | 77.76% | K. Lakshminarayanan | | PMC | 4,942 | 49.05% | G. Ravichandiran | | INC | 4,726 | 46.90% | 216 |
| 3 | Raj Bhavan | 76.71% | S. P. Sivakumar | | DMK | 2,590 | 65.95% | P. K. Devadoss | | PMC | 1,094 | 27.86% | 1,496 |
| 4 | Bussy | 79.65% | Bussy N. Anand | | PMC | 2,423 | 54.06% | Annibal Kennedy | | DMK | 1,952 | 43.55% | 471 |
| 5 | Oupalam | 89.08% | A. Anbalagan | | AIADMK | 9,200 | 58.05% | U. C. Arumugam | | DMK | 6,131 | 38.68% | 3,069 |
| 6 | Orleampeth | 85.49% | R. Siva | | DMK | 8,509 | 52.61% | G. Nehru Kuppusamy | | Independent | 6,549 | 40.49% | 1,960 |
| 7 | Nellithope | 84.43% | Omsakthi Sekar | | AIADMK | 9,933 | 51.69% | R. V. Janakiraman | | DMK | 8,490 | 44.18% | 1,443 |
| 8 | Mudaliarpet | 87.85% | Dr. M. A. S. Subramanian | | DMK | 10,783 | 37.22% | P. Kannan | | PMC | 9,379 | 32.38% | 1,404 |
| 9 | Ariankuppam | 89.32% | R. K. R. Anantharaman | | PMK | 13,314 | 51.39% | T. Jayamoorthy | | PMC | 11,512 | 44.43% | 1,802 |
| 10 | Embalam | 89.05% | R. Rajaraman | | DMK | 7,208 | 40.56% | L. Periyasamy | | Independent | 6,683 | 37.61% | 525 |
| 11 | Nettapakkam | 90.41% | V. Vaithilingam | | INC | 9,166 | 52.20% | V. Muthunarayanan | | PMC | 7,830 | 44.60% | 1,336 |
| 12 | Kuruvinatham | 90.10% | R. Radhakrishnan | | INC | 13,020 | 74.66% | B. Navaneetha Kannan | | JD(S) | 3,557 | 20.40% | 9,463 |
| 13 | Bahour | 90.87% | M. Kandasamy | | INC | 11,164 | 60.06% | P. Rajavelu | | PMC | 6,888 | 37.05% | 4,276 |
| 14 | Thirubuvanai | 88.92% | Angalane | | INC | 10,534 | 49.91% | S. Komala | | MDMK | 6,378 | 30.22% | 4,156 |
| 15 | Mannadipet | 90.01% | P. Arulmurugan | | PMK | 8,193 | 42.41% | N. Rajaram | | Independent | 6,386 | 33.06% | 1,807 |
| 16 | Ossudu | 92.18% | Abar Elumalai | | Independent | 6,417 | 34.58% | P. Soundiraradjou Ponnas | | Independent | 3,755 | 20.23% | 2,662 |
| 17 | Villianur | 89.10% | J. Narayanasamy | | Independent | 11,950 | 49.35% | C. Djeacoumar | | INC | 10,441 | 43.12% | 1,509 |
| 18 | Ozhukarai | 88.34% | A. Namassivayam | | INC | 14,072 | 48.10% | K. Natarajan | | AIADMK | 12,824 | 43.83% | 1,248 |
| 19 | Thattanchavady | 84.30% | N. Rangaswamy | | INC | 27,024 | 90.16% | T. Gunasekaran | | AIADMK | 2,026 | 6.76% | 24,998 |
| 20 | Reddiarpalayam | 77.08% | R. Viswanathan | | CPI | 17,314 | 50.43% | A. M. Krishnamurthy | | AIADMK | 13,925 | 40.56% | 3,389 |
| 21 | Lawspet | 80.65% | M. O. H. F. Shahjahan | | INC | 17,944 | 43.03% | G. Anandhamurugesan | | AIADMK | 10,986 | 26.35% | 6,958 |
| 22 | Cotchery | 87.29% | V. Omalingam | | AIADMK | 10,116 | 50.25% | P. R. N. Thirumurugan | | INC | 9,094 | 45.17% | 1,022 |
| 23 | Karaikal North | 80.25% | A. M. H. Nazeem | | DMK | 5,742 | 45.20% | A. J. Assana | | DMDK | 5,551 | 43.70% | 191 |
| 24 | Karaikal South | 86.74% | V. K. Ganapathy | | PMC | 7,970 | 55.06% | A. V. Subramanian | | INC | 6,231 | 43.05% | 1,739 |
| 25 | Neravy T R Pattinam | 86.57% | V. M. C. Sivakumar | | DMK | 4,946 | 31.41% | V. M. C. V. Ganapathy | | Independent | 4,762 | 30.24% | 184 |
| 26 | Thirunallar | 87.85% | P. R. Siva | | MDMK | 7,237 | 49.69% | R. Kamalakkannan | | INC | 6,952 | 47.73% | 285 |
| 27 | Nedungadu | 88.40% | A. Marimuthu | | Independent | 6,143 | 43.47% | M. Chandirakasu | | INC | 5,306 | 37.54% | 837 |
| 28 | Mahe | 80.00% | E. Valsaraj | | INC | 5,647 | 55.74% | T. Ashok Kumar | | CPI(M) | 3,700 | 36.52% | 1,947 |
| 29 | Palloor | 78.14% | A. V. Sreedharan | | INC | 5,987 | 53.35% | T. K. Gangadharan | | CPI(M) | 4,512 | 40.20% | 1,475 |
| 30 | Yanam | 96.74% | Malladi Krishna Rao | | INC | 11,763 | 64.89% | Raksha Harikrishna | | Independent | 5,457 | 30.10% | 6,306 |