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'''Sikkim Congress (Revolutionary)''' was [[political party]] in the [[India]]n state of [[Sikkim]] in 1979–1981. The president of the party was Ram Chandra Poudyal.<ref name="Kazi2020">{{cite book|author=Jigme N. Kazi|title=Sons of Sikkim: The Rise and Fall of the Namgyal Dynasty of Sikkim|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_MwDEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT340|date=20 October 2020|publisher=Notion Press|isbn=978-1-64805-981-0|page=340}}</ref><ref name="RahmanVerma2006">{{cite book|author1=Syed Amanur Rahman|author2=Balraj Verma|title=The Beautiful India - Sikkim|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=emcwAQAAIAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Reference Press|isbn=978-81-8405-019-6|page=347}}</ref> In the state assembly elections of 1979, SCR(R) won eleven seats (of 32) and became the largest faction in the assembly. In total, the party received {{formatnum:14889}} votes (20.58% of the votes in the state). The strength of the party did however decline when several assembly members crossed over to [[Sikkim Prajatantra Congress]].

In the [[Lok Sabha]] elections of 1980, the SC(R) candidate won {{formatnum:11632}} votes (22.59% of the votes in Sikkim).

== Electoral records ==
===[[Sikkim Legislative Assembly]]===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Total Seats
! Seats Contested
! Seats Won
! Forfeited Deposits
! % Votes contested
! Source
|-
| [[1979 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election|1979]]
| 32
| 27
| 11
| 11
| 23.38
| <ref>{{cite web|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1979 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF SIKKIM|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3354-sikkim-1979/|publisher=ECI|accessdate=25 November 2019|location=|year=1979}}</ref>
|}

===[[Sikkim (Lok Sabha constituency)|Lok Sabha election, Sikkim]]===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! Year
! Total Seats
! Seats Contested
! Seats Won
! Forfeited Deposits
! % Votes contested
! Source
|-
| [[1980 Indian general election|1980]]
| 1
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 22.59
| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1980/Vol_I_LS_80.pdf|title=Statistical Report on General Elections, 1980 to the Seventh Lok Sabha|page=204|publisher=Election Commission of India|accessdate=30 April 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718175926/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1980/Vol_I_LS_80.pdf|archivedate=18 July 2014}}</ref>
|}

==References==
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[[Category:Defunct political parties in Sikkim]]
[[Category:Political parties established in 1979]]
[[Category:1979 establishments in Sikkim]]
[[Category:Political parties disestablished in 1980]]
[[Category:1980 disestablishments in India]]

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