Yanam is a legislative assembly constituency in the Union territory of

Puducherry Puducherry or Pondicherry may refer to: * Puducherry (union territory), a union territory of India ** Pondicherry, capital of the union territory of Puducherry ** Puducherry district, a district of the union territory of Puducherry ** Puducherry t ...

in India, covering the area of

Yanam Yanam (Telugu: ''యానాం'') is a town located in the Yanam district in Puducherry. It has a population of 35,000 and is entirely surrounded by Andhra Pradesh. It was formerly a French colony for nearly 200 years, and, though united wi ...

. Yanam assembly constituency was part of

Puducherry (Lok Sabha constituency) Puducherry Lok Sabha constituency covers the entire Union Territory of Puducherry. Pondicherry became a union territory after the implementation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India in 1962 and changed its name to Puduche ...

Member of the Assembly

Member of Representative Assembly of French India

1946 Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...

: Madimchetty Satianarayanamourty ;

Kamichetty Sri Parassourama Varaprassada Rao Naidu Kamichetty Sri Parassourama Varaprassada Rao Naidu (2 October 1921 – 19 January 1989) was a member of the legislative assembly (MLA) of Puducherry, India from 1964 until his death in 1989. A government high school in Yanam was named with h ...

, *

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...

: Madimchetty Satianarayanamourty ; Canacala Tataya. The ''de facto transfer'' of French settlements in India has happened on 1 November 1954. These four French settlements were organized as State of Pondicherry. Later, on 11 June 1955, The Government of India has dissolved the ''Representative Assembly'' by State of Pondicherry (Representative Assembly Decree Amendment) Order, 1955.

Member of Pondicherry Representative Assembly

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

: Erra Jagannadha Rao (Congress);

(Congress). *

1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...

: Kanakalapeta constituency:

Kamichetty Savithri Kamisetty Savithri (also spelled as Kamichetty Savithri; born 26 February 1923, date of death unknown) was an Indian politician from Yanam and was first MLA after de facto transfer from that constituency, between 1959 and 1964. She was also form ...

(Ind.); Adiandhrapeta constituency:

(Ind.). As the people aspired for a popular government, the

Indian Parliament The Parliament of India ( IAST: ) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameral legislature composed of the president of India and two houses: the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok Sabha (House of the ...

enacted The Union Territories Act, 1963 that came into force on 1 July 1963, and the pattern of government prevailing in the rest of the country was introduced in this territory. The

Pondicherry Representative Assembly After the merger of French settlements into an Indian union, a new assembly, named the Pondicherry Representative Assembly, was created by the government of India. After the "de facto transfer day" of 1 October 1954, before 16 August 1962 also ...

was converted into the

Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry The Puducherry Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian States and union territories of India, union territory (UT) of Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry, which comprises four districts: Puducherry district, Puduch ...

on 1 July 1963 as per Section 54(3) of The Union Territories Act, 1963 and its members were deemed to have been elected to the Assembly. Thus, the MLAs of Yanam to the First Legislvative Assembly (1963–1964) were Smt.

and Shri

Member of Legislative Assembly

The elections for the Puducherry Legislative Assembly are held since 1964. Before the Elections to the

Pondicherry Legislative Assembly The Puducherry Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian union territory (UT) of Puducherry, which comprises four districts: Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahé and Yanam. Out of eight union territories of India, only three hav ...

were held in August 1964, the constituencies were delimited by the Delimitation Commission and the entire territory was divided into 30 single-member constituencies and 1 seat is allocated for Yanam region.

Election Results

Legislative Assembly

Assembly Elections 2021

Assembly Elections 1969

Pondicherry Representative Assembly

Assembly Elections 1964

Assembly Elections 1955

French India

Assembly Elections 1951

Assembly Elections 1946

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* {{coords, 16.737, 82.211, display=title Assembly constituencies of Puducherry Yanam