Lawspet is an Assembly constituency in the Pondicherry district, in the Pondicherry region of Puducherry.
The Lawspet constituency went to polls on April 6, 2021.
The assembly seat is reserved for the General category.
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In the 2016 Assembly elections, Lawspet was won by V.P. Sivakolundhu of INC.
Before that, in the 2011 elections, the seat was held by M. Vaithianathan of AINRC.
In the 2016 assembly polls, V.P. Sivakolundhu garnered 12144 votes, securing over 46.92 percent of the vote share, and winning the seat by a margin of 6449 votes.
In percentage terms, the victory margin was 24.92 percent.
The constituency polled 25898 votes in the 2016 Puducherry assembly polls with a voter turnout of 83.74 percent.
The Lawspet constituency has a literacy level of 85.44 percent.
A total of 14 candidates stood in the 2016 elections.