Nellithope, one of Puducherry’s 30 assembly constituencies, is currently held by the BJP. In the 2021 elections, BJP candidate Richards Johnkumar wrrested the seat from the Congress, which had won it twice in 2016 and then in a by-election. In 2021, Johnkumar defeated Congress’s V Kartigueyane by a margin of 496 votes. The constituency falls under the Puducherry Lok Sabha seat, the Union territory’s only parliamentary constituency. In 2021, Nellithope had 33,019 registered voters, of whom 27,286 cast their votes.