Puducherry Election 2021 Winning Candidates Full List: AINR Congress-BJP wins 16 seats; check winners, losers, constituency performance

The All India NR Congress on Sunday emerged as the largest party in the Union Territory of Puducherry with the party poised to win 16 of the 30 seats with help from partner BJP. The Congress-led Secular Democratic Alliance (SDA), which had lost the majority in the UT right before the elections seemed set to win at least eight constituencies while six Independent candidates won the election. As the results for 29 out of 30 assembly seats were declared, the AINRC bagged ten, BJP six, DMK five and Congress two, as per result trends available on the EC website. At 11.45 pm, counting of votes for one seat Neravy-TR Pattinama was underway where DMK’s M Nagathiyagarajan is ahead of BJP’s VMCS Manoharen by 5,511 votes.

A Namassivayam of BJP emerged victorious from the Mannadipet constituency after defeating his DMK rival A Krishnan. Namassivayam, who shifted his allegiance to the saffron party in January this year after quitting the Congress, contested the 6 April poll from the Mannadipet seat as BJP nominee. The former minister polled 14,939 votes while his rival secured 12,189 votes. A greenhorn in poll battle, U Lakshmikandhan of the AINRC wrested the Embalam (reserved) segment from Congress by defeating its candidate and former welfare minister M Kandasamy. Meanwhile, the AIADMK drew a blank in the Puducherry election. Among the surprise winners were six Independent candidates. Here’s the list of winners and losers constituency-wise:

With inputs from PTI