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  |AssemblyConstituencies = [[Kalimpong (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalimpong]]<br />[[Darjeeling (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Darjeeling]]<br />[[Kurseong (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kurseong]]<br />[[Matigara-Naxalbari (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Matigara-Naxalbari]]<br />[[Siliguri (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Siliguri]]<br />[[Phansidewa (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Phansidewa]]<br />[[Chopra (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Chopra]]
  |AssemblyConstituencies = [[Kalimpong (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalimpong]]<br />[[Darjeeling (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Darjeeling]]<br />[[Kurseong (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kurseong]]<br />[[Matigara-Naxalbari (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Matigara-Naxalbari]]<br />[[Siliguri (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Siliguri]]<br />[[Phansidewa (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Phansidewa]]<br />[[Chopra (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Chopra]]
  |Electorate = 1,437,126
  |Electorate = 1,437,126
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|SuccessfulParty=[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] (6 times)}}
'''Darjeeling (Lok Sabha constituency)''' is one of the 543 [[Lok Sabha|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]].
'''Darjeeling (Lok Sabha constituency)''' is one of the 543 [[Lok Sabha|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]].


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==Members of Parliament<ref name=DarjLokSabha>{{cite web|url=https://eci.gov.in/statistical-report/statistical-reports/|title=Election Results - Full Statistical Reports|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date=19 April 2019}}</ref>==
==Members of Parliament==
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!Duration!!Elected M.P.
!Duration!!Elected M.P.
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|percentage = 3.99
|percentage = 3.99
|change    = -10.64
|change    = -10.64
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate  = Rajesh Singh
|party      = Independent (politician)
|votes      = 15,973
|percentage = 1.26
|change    =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate  = Nirode Chandra Adhikary
|party      = Independent (politician)
|votes      = 10,719
|percentage = 0.85
|change    =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate  = Harka Bahadur Chhetri
|party      = Jana Andolan Party
|votes      = 6,495
|percentage = 0.51
|change    =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate  = Digbijay Mandal
|party      = Independent (politician)
|votes      = 4,117
|percentage = 0.32
|change    =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate  = Reseeka Chettri
|party      = Independent (politician)
|votes      = 3,359
|percentage = 0.27
|change    =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate  = Bharat Dong
|party      = Gorkha Rashtriya Congress
|votes      = 2,952
|percentage = 0.23
|change    =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate  = Sudip Mandal
|party      = Bahujan Samaj Party
|votes      = 2,259
|percentage = 0.18
|change    =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate  = Ajay Dahal
|party      = Independent (politician)
|votes      = 2,199
|percentage = 0.17
|change    =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|candidate  = Christopher Gahatraj
|party      = Indian Democratic Republican Front
|votes      = 1,678
|percentage = 0.13
|change    =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|candidate  = Dipak Kumar Roy
|party      = [[Kamtapur People's Party]] (United)
|votes      = 1,539
|percentage = 0.12
|change    =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate  = Sunil Pandit
|party      = Rashtriya Janasachetan Party
|votes      = 1,505
|percentage = 0.12
|change    =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate  = Tanmay Dutta
|party      = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|votes      = 1,449
|percentage = 0.11
|change    =
}}
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===General elections 1957-2014<ref name=DarjLokSabha/>===
===General elections 1957-2014===
Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:
Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:
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! colspan="2" |Voter Turnout
! colspan="2" |Voter Turnout
! colspan="3" |Winner
! colspan="3" |Winner

Latest revision as of 11:07, 28 June 2022


Darjeeling
Lok Sabha Constituency
IncumbentRaju Bista
Parliamentary PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected Year2019
Constituency Details
Established1957-present
ReservationNone
StateWest Bengal
Total Electors1,437,126
Most Successful PartyCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (6 times)
Assembly ConstituenciesKalimpong
Darjeeling
Kurseong
Matigara-Naxalbari
Siliguri
Phansidewa
Chopra

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[edit | edit source]

Parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal - 1. Cooch Behar, 2. Alipurduars, 3. Jalpaiguri, 4. Darjeeling, 5. Raiganj, 6. Balurghat, 7. Maldaha Uttar, 8. Maldaha Dakshin, 9. Jangipur, 10. Baharampur, 11. Murshidabad, 12. Krishnanagar, 13. Ranaghat, 14. Bangaon, 15. Barrackpore, 16. Dum Dum, 17. Barasat, 18. Basirhat, 19. Jaynagar, 20. Mathurapur, 21. Diamond Harbour, 22. Jadavpur, 23. Kolkata Dakshin, 24. Kolkata Uttar, 25. Howrah, 26. Uluberia, 27. Serampore, 28. Hoghly, 29. Arambagh, 30. Tamluk, 31, Kanthi, 32. Ghatal, 33. Jhargram, 34. Medinipur, 35. Purulia, 36. Bankura, 37. Bishnupur, 38. Bardhaman Purba, 39. Bardhaman Durgapur, 40. Asansol, 41. Bolpur, 42. Birbhum

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]

Constituency number Name Reserved for (SC/ST/None) District Party MLA
22 Kalimpong None Kalimpong GJM Ruden Sada Lepcha
23 Darjeeling None Darjeeling BJP Neeraj Zimba
24 Kurseong None Darjeeling BJP Bishnu Prasad Sharma
25 Matigara-Naxalbari SC Darjeeling BJP Anandamoy Barman
26 Siliguri None Darjeeling BJP Shankar Ghosh
27 Phansidewa ST Darjeeling

BJP

Durga Murmu
28 Chopra None Uttar Dinajpur AITC Hamidul Rahman

Members of Parliament[edit | edit source]

Lok Sabha[2] Duration Elected M.P. Party Affiliation Constituency
Second 1957-62 Theodore Manaen Indian National Congress Darjeeling
Third 1962-67 Theodore Manaen Indian National Congress
Fourth 1967-71 Maitreyee Basu Independent
Fifth 1971-77 Ratanlal Brahmin Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Sixth 1977-80 Krishna Bahadur Chhetri Indian National Congress
Seventh 1980-84 Ananda Pathak Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Eighth 1984-89 Ananda Pathak Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Ninth 1989-91 Inderjeet Gorkha National Liberation Front
Tenth 1991-96 Inderjeet Indian National Congress
Eleventh 1996-98 Ratna Bahadur Rai Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Twelfth 1998-99 Ananda Pathak Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Thirteenth 1999-04 S. P. Lepcha Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Fourteenth 2004-09 Dawa Narbula Indian National Congress
Fifteenth 2009-14 Jaswant Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
Sixteenth 2014-19 S. S. Ahluwalia Bharatiya Janata Party
Seventeenth 2019-incumbent Raju Bista Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results[edit | edit source]

General election 2019[edit | edit source]

2019 Indian general elections: Darjeeling
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Raju Bista 7,50,067 59.19 +16.46
AITC Amar Singh Rai 3,36,624 26.56 −1.09
INC Sankar Malakar 65,186 5.14 −2.74
CPI(M) Saman Pathak 50,524 3.99 −10.64
Independent Rajesh Singh 15,973 1.26
Independent Nirode Chandra Adhikary 10,719 0.85
JAP Harka Bahadur Chhetri 6,495 0.51
Independent Digbijay Mandal 4,117 0.32
Independent Reseeka Chettri 3,359 0.27
GRC Bharat Dong 2,952 0.23
BSP Sudip Mandal 2,259 0.18
Independent Ajay Dahal 2,199 0.17
Indian Democratic Republican Front Christopher Gahatraj 1,678 0.13
Kamtapur People's Party (United) Dipak Kumar Roy 1,539 0.12
RJP Sunil Pandit 1,505 0.12
SUCI(C) Tanmay Dutta 1,449 0.11
None of the Above None of the Above 10,625 0.84
Majority 4,13,443 32.63 +15.37
Turnout 12,69,666 78.80
BJP hold Swing

General election 2014[edit | edit source]

2014 Indian general elections: Darjeeling[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP S. S. Ahluwalia 4,88,257 42.73 +8.77
AITC Bhaichung Bhutia 2,91,018 25.47
CPI(M) Saman Pathak 1,67,186 14.63 −10.66
INC Sujay Ghatak 90,076 7.88 −11.55
None of the Above None of the Above 18,045 1.58 −−−
Majority 1,97,239 17.26 −8.95
Turnout 11,42,009 80.20 +0.70
BJP hold Swing -8.77

General election 2009[edit | edit source]

General Election, 2009: Darjeeling[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Jaswant Singh 4,97,649 51.50 +38.67
CPI(M) Jibesh Sarkar 2,44,360 25.29 −7.99
INC Dawa Narbula 1,87,809 19.43 −25.27
Independent Ram Ganesh Baraik 13,236 1.37 +1.37
BSP Haridas Thakur 5,083 0.53 −0.68
Independent Nitu Jai 4,786 0.50 +0.50
CPI(ML)L Abhijit Majumdar 3,818 0.40 0
AMB Niranjan Saha 3,717 0.38 0
Independent Arun Kumar Agarwal 3,227 0.33 0
IPFB Baidyanath Roy 2,686 0.28 0
Majority 2,53,289 26.21 +14.79
Turnout 9,66,371 79.50 +8.39
BJP gain from INC Swing

General election 2004[edit | edit source]

General Election, 2004: Darjeeling[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Dawa Narbula 3,96,973
CPI(M) Moni Thapa 2,95,557
BJP Dr. G.S. Yonzone 1,13,972
Independent Sanjay Thakuri 20,988
Independent Mohan Chhetri 14,857
Independent Raju Bhatta 11,112
BSP Bimal Dutta 10,758
AMB Kishalay Kanti Sharma 8,695
Independent Lalit Barman 8,690
Independent Tika Pradhan 6481
Majority 1,01,416
Turnout 8,88,083
INC gain from CPI (M) Swing

General elections 1957-2014[edit | edit source]

Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:

Year[2] 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[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Election Results - Full Statistical Reports". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 19 April 2019.

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