INC – DMK Alliance Leads the Tally. TDP to be the Deciding Factor in Forming of Council
Port Blair, March 8: The results of the election to Port Blair Municipal Council were declared today. Accordingly among the 24 wards of the Municipal Council, the Indian National Congress (INC) secured 10 seats, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured 10 seats, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) secured 2 seats, the DMK party secured 1 seat and 1 seat was won by an Independent lady candidate. With INC and DMK alliance, INC stands as the majority but the deciding factor will be the two seats of the TDP to form the Council, while the one Independent seat may also be crucial. The results are as follows:
Ward No 1: S Shahul Hameed from TDP defeated his nearest contender B Hema Rao of BJP by a margin of 827 votes
Ward No 2: R Someswar Rao of BJP defeated his nearest contender Eswar Rao of INC by a margin of 137 votes
Ward No 3: Ramzan Ali of INC defeated his nearest contender Hasan Ali of BJP by a margin of 949 votes
Ward No 4: Abdul Islam of INC defeated his nearest contender Abdul Majeed (Independent) by margin of 821 votes
Ward No 5: Selvi of TDP defeated her nearest contender A Shanmugam of INC by a margin of 292
Ward No 6: Aziz ur Rehman of BJP defeated his nearest contender Senthil Kumar of DMK by margin of 543 votes
Ward No 7: Amar Devi of INC defeated her nearest contender Seema Singh of BJP by a margin of 600 votes
Ward No 8: Laxmi Ganeshan of INC defeated her nearest contender M Rekha of BJP by a margin of 626 votes
Ward No 9: V Ravichandran of DMK defeated his nearest contender Sandeep Singh of TDP by margin of 789 votes
Ward No 10: T Mangayakarasai of INC defeated her nearest contender Sheela Singh of BJP by margin of 175 votes
Ward No 11: Sanjeev Reddy of INC defeats his nearest contender Vinita Malhotra of BJP by a margin of 421 votes
Ward No 12: Vasanta of INC defeated her nearest contender Amal Rani of BJP by a margin of 274 votes
Ward No 13: Sudeep Rai Sharma of INC defeated his nearest contender Ajay Raj Singh of BJP by a margin of 20 votes
Ward No 14: Y Joga Rao of INC defeated his nearest contender Balakrishna of BJP by a margin of 1346 votes
Ward No 15: B Padnaban of BJP defeated his nearest contender V Govindan of DMK by a margin of 438 votes
Ward No 16: R Karunanidhi of BJP defeated his nearest contender Satyanarayana of TDP by margin of 144 votes
Ward No 17: Dharmendra Narayan of BJP defeated his nearest contender A Ganeshan by margin of 172 votes
Ward No 18: Rajesh Pal Govind of BJP defeated his nearest contender Sahadevan of INC by a margin of 1075 votes
Ward No 19: Vetrivelu of INC defeated his nearest contender Venkat Ramanna of BJP by a margin of 1326 votes
Ward No 20: V Pandi Selvi of BJP defeated her nearest contender Rafat Jan of INC by a margin of 404 votes
Ward No 21: A Selva Rani of BJP defeated her nearest contender Pandi Selvi of DMK by a margin of 416 votes
Ward No 22: Rajesh Ram of BJP defeated his nearest contender Jaipal of INC by a margin of 333 votes
Ward No 23: Radhika (Independent) defeated her nearest contender Madhu Lal of BJP by margin of 296 votes
Ward No 24: U Kavitha of BJP defeated her nearest contender Neelawathi of INC by a margin of 212 votes