Puducherry Assembly polls: Congress wins 4 seats, AINRC bag one

Early trends showed the AINRC and Congress in a neck-and-neck race

Congress won four seats while ruling AINRC bagged one seat in the elections to the 30-member Puducherry Assembly.

Congress won Kamaraj Nagar (V Vaithithilingam), Nellithope (John Kumar), Yanam (Malladi Krishna Rao), Kamaraj Nagar and Lawspet (V P Sivakolundhu).

AINRC candidate N S J Jayabal alias Ayyanar won in Kadirgamam, defeating Independent S Ramesh by a margin of 3,802 votes.