Darjeeling Lok Sabha constituency
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Indian English Template:Infobox Indian constituency Darjeeling Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Darjeeling in West Bengal. While five assembly segments are in Darjeeling district, one assembly segment is in Kalimpong district and one assembly segment is in Uttar Dinajpur district.
Assembly segments
As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 4 Darjeeling is composed of the following segments from 2009:[1]
Members of Parliament
| Year | Name[2] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Theodore Manaen | Template:Full party name with color | |
| 1962 | |||
| 1967 | Maitreyee Basu | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Independent |
| 1971 | Ratanlal Brahmin | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1977 | Krishna Bahadur Chhetri | Template:Full party name with color | |
| 1980 | Ananda Pathak | rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1984 | |||
| 1989 | Inderjeet | Template:Full party name with color | |
| 1991 | Template:Full party name with color | ||
| 1996 | Ratna Bahadur Rai | rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1998 | Ananda Pathak | ||
| 1999 | S. P. Lepcha | ||
| 2004 | Dawa Narbula | Template:Full party name with color | |
| 2009 | Jaswant Singh | Template:Full party name with color | |
| 2014 | S. S. Ahluwalia | ||
| 2019 | Raju Bista | ||
| 2024 | |||
Election results
General election 2024
Template:Election box winning candidate with party link| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
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| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Gopal Lama | 5,00,806 | 37.73 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Munish Tamang | 83,374 | 6.28 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Independent | Bandana Rai | 13,674 | 1.03 | ||
| Independent | Bishnu Prasad Sharma | 7,447 | 0.56 | ||
| Independent | Bhupendra Lepcha | 6,395 | 0.48 | ||
| Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Party | Atasi Biswas | 4,641 | 0.35 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Pradhan Mardi | 2,747 | 0.21 | ||
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Khushi Ranjan Mandal | 2,337 | 0.18 | ||
| Independent | Kalicharan Barman | 2,079 | 0.16 | ||
| North Bengal People’s Party | Qamrul Haque | 1,853 | 0.14 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Kamatapur People’s Party (United) | Budharu Roy | 1,762 | 0.13 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Shahriar Alam | 1,614 | 0.12 | ||
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Subodh Pakhrin | 1,331 | 0.10 | ||
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | None of the above | 18,021 | 1.36 | ||
| Majority | 1,78,525 | Script error: No such module "String". | |||
| Turnout | 74.76 | Script error: No such module "String". | |||
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General election 2019
Template:Election box winning candidate with party link| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
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| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Amar Singh Rai | 3,36,624 | 26.56 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Sankar Malakar | 65,186 | 5.14 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Saman Pathak | 50,524 | 3.99 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Rajesh Singh | 15,973 | 1.26 | ||
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Nirode Chandra Adhikary | 10,719 | 0.85 | ||
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Harka Bahadur Chhetri | 6,495 | 0.51 | ||
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Digbijay Mandal | 4,117 | 0.32 | ||
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Reseeka Chettri | 3,359 | 0.27 | ||
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Bharat Dong | 2,952 | 0.23 | ||
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Sudip Mandal | 2,259 | 0.18 | ||
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Ajay Dahal | 2,199 | 0.17 | ||
| Indian Democratic Republican Front | Christopher Gahatraj | 1,678 | 0.13 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Kamtapur People's Party (United) | Dipak Kumar Roy | 1,539 | 0.12 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Sunil Pandit | 1,505 | 0.12 | ||
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Tanmay Dutta | 1,449 | 0.11 | ||
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | None of the Above | 10,625 | 0.84 | ||
| Majority | 4,13,443 | 32.63 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
| Turnout | 12,69,666 | 78.80 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
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General election 2014
Template:Election box winning candidate with party link| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
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| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Bhaichung Bhutia | 2,91,018 | 25.47 | ||
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Saman Pathak | 1,67,186 | 14.63 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Sujay Ghatak | 90,076 | 7.88 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | None of the Above | 18,045 | 1.58 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Majority | 1,97,239 | 17.26 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
| Turnout | 11,42,009 | 80.20 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
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General election 2009
Template:Election box winning candidate with party link| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |
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| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Jibesh Sarkar | 2,44,360 | 25.29 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Dawa Narbula | 1,87,809 | 19.43 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Independent | Ram Ganesh Baraik | 13,236 | 1.37 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Haridas Thakur | 5,083 | 0.53 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Independent | Nitu Jai | 4,786 | 0.50 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Abhijit Majumdar | 3,818 | 0.40 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Niranjan Saha | 3,717 | 0.38 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Independent | Arun Kumar Agarwal | 3,227 | 0.33 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Baidyanath Roy | 2,686 | 0.28 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Majority | 2,53,289 | 26.21 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
| Turnout | 9,66,371 | 79.50 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
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General election 2004
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| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Moni Thapa | 2,95,557 | 33.28 | ||
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Dr. G.S. Yonzone | 1,13,972 | 12.83 | ||
| Independent | Sanjay Thakuri | 20,988 | 2.36 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Mohan Chhetri | 14,857 | 1.67 | ||
| Independent | Raju Bhatta | 11,112 | 1.25 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Bimal Dutta | 10,758 | 1.21 | ||
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Kishalay Kanti Sharma | 8,695 | 0.98 | ||
| Independent | Lalit Barman | 8,690 | 0.97 | Script error: No such module "String". | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Tika Pradhan | 6481 | 0.73 | ||
| Majority | 1,01,416 | 11.42 | Script error: No such module "String". | ||
| Turnout | 8,88,083 | Script error: No such module "String". | |||
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General elections 1957-2014
Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:
| Year[3] | Voter Turnout | Winner | Runners up | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | %age | Candidate | %age | Party | Candidate | %age | Party | |
| 1957 | 769,330 | 41.67 | Theodore Manaen | 43.27 | Indian National Congress | Ratan Lal Brahman | 35.63 | Communist Party of India |
| 1962 | 197,796 | 46.97 | Theodore Manaen | 35.03 | Indian National Congress | Ratan Lal Brahman | 30.57 | Communist Party of India |
| 1967 | 258,528 | 58.39 | M. Basu | 39.27 | Independent | Theodore Manaen | 38.54 | Indian National Congress |
| 1971 | 268.931 | 53.54 | Ratan Lal Brahman | 33.19 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | G.S. Gurung | 28.36 | IGL |
| 1977 | 2,72,140 | 43.35 | Krishna Bahadur Chhetri | 41.81 | INC(I) | Ratan Lal Brahman | 34.75 | CPI(M) |
| 1980 | 419.40 | 56.66 | Ananda Pathak | 45.75 | CPI(M) | Krishna Bahadur Chhetri | 41.27 | INC(I) |
| 1984 | 5,61,740 | 68.13 | Ananda Pathak | 41.96 | CPI(M) | Dawa Narbula | 41.71 | INC |
| 1989 | 7,88,360 | 74.26 | Inderjeet | 56.49 | GNLF | Ananda Pathak | 37.65 | CPI(M) |
| 1991 | 7,62,890 | 69.59 | Inderjeet | 48.07 | INC | Ananda Pathak | 41.04 | CPI (M) |
| 1996 | 8,43,300 | 69.52 | R.B. Rai | 45.91 | CPI(M) | Krishna Bahadur Chhetri | 36.00 | INC |
| 1998 | 6,41,280 | 51.78 | Ananda Pathak | 44.75 | CPI(M) | Prasanta Nandy | 25.21 | INC |
| 1999 | 5,90,020 | 46.21 | S.P. Lepcha | 44.24 | CPI (M) | Nar Bahadur Khatiwara | 24.96 | INC |
| 2004 | 8,88,320 | 71.11 | Dawa Narbula | 44.70 | INC | Moni Thapa | 33.28 | CPI(M) |
| 2009 | 9,66,371 | 79.51 | Jaswant Singh | 51.50 | BJP | Jibesh Sarkar | 25.29 | CPI(M) |
| 2014 | 11,42,009 | 80.20 | S.S. Ahluwalia | 42.75 | BJP | Bhaichung Bhutia | 25.48 | TMC |
| 2019 | 12,67,270 | 78.71 | Raju Bista | 59.19 | BJP | Amar Singh Rai | 26.56 | TMC |
See also
References
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