1964 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election

Indian union territory election June 2020 September 2020 1964 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election India parliamentary 1959 Pondicherry Representative Assembly election 1959 yes 1964 08 23 1969 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election 1969 All 30 seats to the Puducherry Legislative Assembly 16 V Venkatasubha Reddiar 2011 stamp of India.jpg 200 80 100 110 07 Indian National Congress V. Venkatasubba Reddiar Nettapakkam 21 21 22 1 54.3% 15.9% Subbiah.jpg 120 80 100 20 17 People's Front no V.Subbiah Murungapakkam-Nainar Mandapam 13 13 4 9 13.4% 15.9% Chief Minister Edouard Goubert Indian National Congress V. Venkatasubba Reddiar Indian National Congress Elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Indian Union Territory of Pondicherry took place on 23 August 1964 to constitute the Second Assembly of Pondicherry.Rahman, S. A. The Beautiful India. Pondicherry. New Delhi: Reference Press, 2006. pp. 138–139 These were the first Legislative Assembly elections after the formation of the new Union Territory.Das, Manoj. Pondicherry. New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1976. p. 20 The elections marked the end of the rule of Edouard Goubert in Pondicherry. Outgoing Assembly The outgoing Legislative Assembly had 39 members (out of whom 25 belonged to the Indian National Congress, 11 to the People's Front (Makkaḷ Munnaṇi (Tamil:மக்கள் முன்னணி), 1 to the Praja Socialist Party and 2 independents).Current Events Year Book. "Current Events" Publication Dept., 1966. p. 386 Delimitation As per The Union Territories Act, 1963, thirty members would be elected through direct suffrage.Grover, Verinder, and Ranjana Arora. Encyclopaedia of India and Her States. Vol. 10. New Delhi [India]: Deep & Deep, 1996. p. 11Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1964 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF PONDICHERRY https://web.archive.org/web/20130127205343/http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1964/StatReport_PY_64.pdf 27 January 2013 Before the Elections to the Pondicherry Legislative Assembly were held in August 1964, the constituencies were delimited by the Delimitation Commission (as per Delimitation Commission Act, 1962) and the entire territory was divided into 30 single-member constituencies-21 for Pondicherry region, 6 for Karaikal region, 2 for Mahe region and 1 for Yanam region. Out of these 5 seats were reserved for Scheduled Castes, four in Pondicherry region and one in Karaikal region.https://books.google.com/books?id=DFqbAAAAMAAJ Cabinet Responsibility to Legislature G. C. Malhotra Lok Sabha Secretariat 2004 9788120004009965 Contenders A total of 85 candidates contested the election. Three of the candidates were women (Saraswathi Subbiah of the People's Front, P. Angammal and Padmini Chandrasekaran from the Congress Party). Congress Party In the run-up to the election, there was dissent within the local unit of the Indian National Congress over the nomination of candidates. Until these polls Édouard Goubert had maintained control over the local Congress Party apparatus. Goubert had been pro-colonialist who had switched sides just as French power ended in Pondicherry. He had survived politically through political intrigues and maintaining the image that he could keep the communists from seizing power in the Union Territory. Now a group led by V. Venkatasubha Reddiar challenged his hegemony. Reddiar had been the Minister of Planning in the Pondicherry cabinet since 1954, and enjoyed the support by a sector of contractors and bootleggers. K. Kamaraj, the president of the Congress Party in the Madras State, was called on to heal the split.Seminar on State Politics in India, Iqbal Narain, D. B. Mathur, and Sushil Kumar. State Politics in India. Meerut: Meenakshi Prakashan, 1967. pp. 534–535 The Madras State Minister for Industries R. Venkataraman (acting on behalf of the All India Congress Committee) was assigned the task to ensure that the party was reunited for the polls.Report of the General Secretary. Indian National Congress. All India Congress Committee. 1965. p. 59 The AICC wholeheartedly sided with Reddiar. Effectively Goubert's group was marginalised in the process. The Congress Party contested all 30 seat in the election. However, Goubert organised some of his sympathizers to contest as independents. In total there were 38 independent candidates, including Goubert's followers. People's Front Apart from the intra-Congress conflict, the main contender was the communist-led People's Front. The People's Front contested 17 out of the 30 seats. Result The Congress Party candidates obtained 91,338 votes (54.3%), the People's Front 30,495 votes (18.2%) and independents gathered 46,218 votes (27.58%). One candidate, Kamishetty Sri Parasurama Vara Prasada Rao Naidu (Congress), was elected unopposed from the Yanam constituency. 17 out of the 22 Congress candidates elected belonged to the Reddiar group, the remaining five were part of the Goubert group. Another three pro-Goubert independents were elected. Reddiar himself won the Nettapacom seat with 4,965 votes (83.54% of the votes in the constituency). Goubert won the Raj Nivas seat, with 2,722 votes (78.47%) A fourth independent (unaffiliated with Goubert) also emerged victorious. Four People's Front candidates were elected, a result which was seen as a backlash for the communists. Amongst the elected People's Front members was V. Subbiah, who won the Modeliarpeth seat with 3,878 votes (51.80%). The results of 1964 election were summarized belowhttps://books.google.com/books?id=2rpVAAAAYAAJ The Story of Congress Pilgrimage: 1964–1970 A.M.Zaidi 6 Indian Institute of Applied Political Research, New Delhi 1990 978818535552838 File:India Pondicherry Legislative Assembly 1964.svgParties and Coalitions Won Votes Vote % Change Indian National Congress 22note One candidate elected uncontested 91,33854.31 People's Front (India)430,495 31.69 Independent politician446,218 27.5 1 List of winners Winner, runner-up, voter turnout, and victory margin in every constituencyPuducherry 1964 https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3421-puducherry-1964/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190515062755/https://www.eci.gov.in/files/file/3421-puducherry-1964/ Election Commission of India 15 May 2019 Assembly ConstituencyTurnout WinnerRunner UpMargin #k Names% Candidate Party Votes% Candidate Party Votes% 1 Muthialpet 81.41% P. Shanmugam Indian National Congress 1,726 33.06% Thangaprakasam Independent politician 1,429 27.37% 297 2 Kurusukuppam 72.81% Padmini Chandrasekaran Indian National Congress 3,605 53.23% M. Murugesa Mudaliar Independent politician 3,168 46.77% 437 3 Cassicade 71.05% A. S. Kankeyan Indian National Congress 1,799 39.98% Kuppusamy Mudaliar Independent politician 1,182 26.27% 617 4 Raj Bhavan 65.47% Édouard Goubert Indian National Congress 2,722 78.47% S. Pakiam Independent politician 662 19.08% 2,060 5 Bussy 65.11% C. M. Achraff Independent politician 2,367 62.72% Paul Ambroise Indian National Congress 789 20.91% 1,578 6 Oupalam 70.78% G. Perumal Raja Independent politician 3,098 55.47% D. Munisamy Indian National Congress 2,487 44.53% 611 7 Nellithope 72.56% N. Ranganathan Indian People's Front 3,627 50.11% R. T. Purushothaman Indian National Congress 3,611 49.89% 16 8 Mudaliarpet 82.77% V. Subbiah Indian People's Front 3,878 51.80% K. Srinivasan Indian National Congress 3,609 48.20% 269 9 Ariankuppam 78.18% P. Rathinavelu Indian National Congress 3,376 48.82% V. Thulasingam Indian People's Front 3,135 45.34% 241 10 Kuruvinatham 87.87% K. R. Subramaniya Padayachi Independent politician 3,167 47.91% R. L. Purushothaman Indian National Congress 1,760 26.62% 1,407 11 Bahour 79.68% Thangavel Clamanso Indian People's Front 2,612 49.81% A. Siva Indian National Congress 2,405 45.86% 207 12 Nettapakkam 88.20% V. Venkatasubba Reddiar Indian National Congress 4,965 83.54% S. Ramaputhiran Independent politician 978 16.46% 3,987 13 Thirubuvanai 77.95% R. Kulandai Independent politician 3,698 61.93% S. Thangavely Independent politician 2,273 38.07% 1,425 14 Mannadipet 84.37% Manickavasaga Reddiar Indian National Congress 3,369 51.40% M. Venugopal Indian People's Front 1,347 20.55% 2,022 15 Ossudu 68.19% N. Harikrishnan Indian National Congress 3,027 55.07% S. Perumal Indian People's Front 2,470 44.93% 557 16 Villianur 81.30% Thillai Kanakarasu Indian National Congress 4,025 57.70% M. Abdul Rahiman Indian People's Front 2,518 36.10% 1,507 17 Embalam 79.00% P. Angammal Indian National Congress 4,924 79.83% S. Andavan Indian People's Front 1,244 20.17% 3,680 18 Oulgaret 79.46% N. Damodaran Independent politician 1,144 18.64% S. Govindasamy Indian National Congress 2,511 40.92% -1,367 19 Kalapet 79.37% Jeevarathina Udayar Indian National Congress 4,078 58.58% P. Narayanasamy Indian People's Front 1,555 22.34% 2,523 20 Poudousaram 72.93% N. Gurusamy Indian People's Front 2,698 46.86% G. Rajamanickam Indian National Congress 2,426 42.14% 272 21 Cotchery 83.69% G. Nagarajan Indian National Congress 4,313 70.34% S. Sokalingame Independent politician 1,614 26.32% 2,699 22 Karaikal North 80.80% Farook Maricar Indian National Congress 4,211 56.39% M. Sembulingam Independent politician 2,033 27.23% 2,178 23 Karaikal South 79.16% Mohamed Ibrahim Maricar Independent politician 2,491 50.70% Ramassamy Pillai Indian National Congress 2,422 49.30% 69 24 Neravy T R Pattinam 86.47% Nagamuttou Pillai Indian National Congress 3,222 56.80% Ramassamy Independent politician 2,163 38.13% 1,059 25 Grand’ Aldee 86.96% V. M. C. Varada Pillai Indian National Congress 3,544 70.58% Pandarinathan Independent politician 1,477 29.42% 2,067 26 Thirunallar 85.64% Subarayalu Indian National Congress 4,000 68.92% Sathiamourthy Independent politician 1,772 30.53% 2,228 27 Nedungadu 86.15% P. Shanmugam Indian National Congress 3,697 65.60% Maric Paul Andre Alias Paul Independent politician 1,939 34.40% 1,758 28 Mahe 90.18% Valavil Kesavan Indian National Congress 2,283 50.14% I. K. Kumaran Independent politician 2,270 49.86% 13 29 Palloor 92.18% Vanmeri Nadeyi Purushothaman Indian National Congress 2,436 64.62% Poothara Narayanan Independent politician 1,334 35.38% 1,102 30 Yanam - Kamisetty Parasuram Naidu Indian National Congress Elected Unopposed Election of CM A meeting of the members of Pondicherry Congress Legislature Party to elect its new Leader was held on 31 August 1964. R. Venkatraman, then Minister of Industries, Madras was presentin the meeting as Observer of the AICC. VenkataSubba Reddiar elected was unanimously elected Leader.37 New assembly and cabinet After the election the Congress Party formed a four-member cabinet led by Reddiar. Likewise Reddiar was elected, unanimously, as the leader of the Congress Legislature Party in the new assembly. See also India Politics Puducherry Legislative Assembly 1955 Pondicherry Representative Assembly election 1959 Pondicherry Representative Assembly election Second Assembly of Pondicherry References Notes note Pondicherry Category:State Assembly elections in Puducherry Category:1960s in Pondicherry