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Urban local bodies · Puducherry

5 municipal bodies with 116 wards: 5 municipalities. Every body below links to its ward list and the assembly and Lok Sabha seats that cover it, from the Local Government Directory as of 25 September 2026.

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Urban local bodies
#30 of 35 states/UTs
116
Wards
5 bodies with ward lists
Districts
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At a glance

Counts from the Local Government Directory. Names of types follow what the directory uses for Puducherry.

Municipality
5
116 wards
Wards in total
116
about 23 per body, on average
Mapped to assembly seats
4 of 5
10 assembly seats cover an urban ward

Largest by number of wards

  1. Municipality · PuducherryOzhukarai42wards · 6 assembly seats
  2. Municipality · PuducherryPondicherry33wards · 2 assembly seats
  3. Municipality · KaraikalKaraikal17wards
  4. Municipality · PuducherryYanam14wards · 1 assembly seat
  5. Municipality · PuducherryMahe10wards · 1 assembly seat
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5 of 5 local bodies

Local bodyTypeDistrictWardsAssembly seats
KaraikalMunicipalityKaraikal17Not mapped
MaheMunicipalityPuducherry10Mahe
OzhukaraiMunicipalityPuducherry42KadirgamamIndira NagarThattanchavady+3 more
PondicherryMunicipalityPuducherry33MuthialpetOupalam
YanamMunicipalityPuducherry14Yanam

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FAQ

Answers use the Local Government Directory entries for the state.

How many urban local bodies are there in Puducherry?

The Local Government Directory lists 5 urban local bodies in Puducherry: 5 municipalities. Together they have 116 wards on record. That is the 30th highest number among the 35 states and union territories in the directory.

Which urban local body in Puducherry has the most wards?

Ozhukarai Municipality has the most wards in the directory, 42. It is followed by Pondicherry Municipality (33) and Karaikal Municipality (17). Ward counts change after each delimitation, so check the latest State Election Commission notification before planning.

Who conducts municipal elections in Puducherry?

The State Election Commission, not the Election Commission of India. It prepares the ward electoral rolls, notifies ward reservation and conducts the polls for every municipal body listed here. Results are published by the commission, ward by ward.

Source: Local Government Directory (lgdirectory.gov.in), Ministry of Panchayati Raj, as of 25 September 2026, via the open daily mirror at github.com/ramSeraph/opendata. Used under the Government Open Data License - India. Ward-to-constituency mapping is as recorded in the directory and may lag behind the latest delimitation. Cantonment boards are not part of the directory’s urban list and are not counted.

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