Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Pondicherry #1GEN
Won
M.D.H. Farook
INC Indian National CongressMargin
67,609 16.8 pp
votes
over P.K. Lognathan (DMK)
The contest
Electors5,93,305
Votes polled4,01,741
Turnout67.7%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors3.07 L51.7% of electorate
Female electors2.87 L48.3% of electorate
Sex ratio
935females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M.D.H. Farook | INC | 2,07,922 | 51.80% | |
| 2 | P.K. Lognathan | DMK | 1,40,313 | 34.90% | |
| 3 | Bavani Maduracavi (W) | PMK | 13,375 | 3.30% | |
| 4 | J.R. Ramasami | BJP | 7,728 | 1.90% | |
| 5 | A.V. Ramakrishnan | IND | 5,223 | 1.30% | |
| 6 | K. Chandresekharan | JP | 3,802 | 0.90% | |
| 7 | M. Arumai Selvam | IND | 3,499 | 0.90% | |
| 8 | D. Joseph Raj | TMM | 3,421 | 0.90% | |
| 9 | Awadh Kishore Bhaiya | DP | 2,323 | 0.60% | |
| 10 | S. Ramassamy | PMMM | 2,259 | 0.60% | |
| 11 | P.K. Magappan | IND | 944 | 0.20% | |
| 12 | G. Thiruvengadam | BKUS | 548 | 0.10% | |
| 13 | Amaan Khan | IND | 426 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 9,958, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 391,783 · NOTA n/a · published 401,741 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1991
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- 2026-09-12