Elections in Puducherry
Elections in Puducherry are conducted to elect the members of Puducherry Vidhan Sabha and the members of the Lok Sabha. There are 30 Vidhan Sabha constituencies and 1 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state.
Pondicherry Representative Assembly elections
After the de-factor merger on 1 November 1954 and before the legal integration with the Indian Union on 16 August 1962, general elections were held in 1955 and 1959. So. the first general elections to the Pondicherry Representative Assembly were held in 1955 from July 18 to 23.| Year | Election | Winning party/coalition | Council of ministers | President | Chief commissioner |
| 1955 | First Election | Congress Party | Edouard Goubert, Chandrasekhara Chettiar, Mohammed Yusoof, S. Dakshinamoorthy Mudaliar and Thiagraja Naicker | Kewal Singh | |
| 1959 | Second Election | Congress Party | V. Venkatasubba Reddiar, Edouard Goubert, C. E. Barathan, Gouroussamy Pillai, P. Shanmugam and Mohamed Ismail Maricar | A. S. Gangeyan | L. R. S. Singh |
Vidhan Sabha elections
The Representative Assembly was converted into the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry on 1 July 1963 as per Section 54 of The Union Territories Act, 1963 and its members were deemed to have been elected to the Assembly. The elections for the Puducherry Vidhan Sabha held since 1964.| Year | Election | Winning party/coalition | Chief Minister | Assembly |
| 1993 | No election | Congress Party | Edouard Goubert | First |
| 1964 | First Election | Congress Party | V. Venkatasubha Reddiar/M. O. H. Farook/V. Venkatasubha Reddiar, | Second |
| 1969 | Second Election | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | M. O. H. Farook | Third |
| 1974 | Third Election | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | Subramanyan Ramaswamy | Fourth |
| 1977 | Fourth Election | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | Subramanyan Ramaswamy | Fifth |
| 1980 | Fifth Election | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | M. D. R. Ramachandran | Sixth |
| 1985 | Sixth Election | Indian National Congress | M. O. H. Farook | Sevent |
| 1990 | Seventh Election | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | M. D. R. Ramachandran | Eighth |
| 1991 | Eighth Election | Indian National Congress | V. Vaithilingam | Ninth |
| 1996 | Ninth Election | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/Indian National Congress | R. V. Janakiraman/P. Shanmugam | Tenth |
| 2001 | Tenth Election | Indian National Congress | P. Shanmugam/N. Rangaswamy | Eleventh |
| 2006 | Eleventh Election | Indian National Congress | N. Rangaswamy/V. Vaithilingam | Twelfth |
| 2011 | Twelfth Election | All India N.R. Congress | N. Rangaswamy | Thirteenth |
| 2016 | Thirteenth Election | Indian National Congress | V. Narayanasamy | Fourteenth |