Located in the Puducherry district, Villianur is constituency number five in the Union Territory of Puducherry.
Electors and voter turnout in previous election
According to the Election Commission's data, in 2016, the constituency had a total of 36,772 registered voters ( 17,848 men, 18,923women and one person belonging to the third gender). A total of 31,545 persons cast their votes at 37 polling stations and the poll percentage stood at 85.79 percent.
Results of previous elections
In 2006, Independent candidate J Narayansamy defeated Congress' C Djeacoumar by a margin of 1,509 votes.
In the 2011 Assembly election, Congress candidate A Namassivayam defeated AINRC's Nadarajan K by garnering 13,105 votes against the latter's 11,564. In 2016, Congress retained the seat with its nominee Namassivayam defeating his closest rival, AINRC's Jayakumar by a by a margin of 8,281 votes (over 26 percent of the total votes polled).
Namassiyavam, who was the PWD minister, resigned from the ministry as well as the Assembly on 25 January, after the ruling Congress suspended him from primary membership on charges of anti-party activities. According to news agency PTI, Namassivayam had allegedly been making moves to shift allegiance to the BJP and kept himself away from party meetings.
Another legislator from the ruling party, Ossudu MLA E Theepainthan also submitted his resignation along with Namassiyavam, bringing down the Congress' strength to 12 in the 30-member Assembly. The Congress also has the support of three DMK members.
Namassiyavam and Theepainthan subsequently switched to the BJP on 28 January.
With inputs from PTI
March 01, 2021 at 07:45PM
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