Puducherry Assembly election: Voter turnout at 37.06% as of 11 a.m.

Voters successful ample numbers thronged polling stations successful Puducherry from aboriginal greeting connected Thursday (April 9, 2026) to elite a caller 30-member Legislative Assembly. At 7 a.m., erstwhile polling began, agelong queues of women, young and aged were witnessed astatine respective booths crossed this erstwhile French enclave.

Within the archetypal 4 hours, arsenic overmuch arsenic 37.06% of voters had turned up astatine polling booths. The Union Territory recorded 82.2% polling successful the 2021 Assembly elections. As galore arsenic 9.50 lakh electors, dispersed crossed the 4 regions of Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam, are expected to enactment arsenic polling advances during the day.