2019 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election

2019 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election

11 April 2019
32 Seats in the Sikkim Legislative Assembly 17 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	81.43% 0.46%
Majority party Minority party   Leader Prem Singh Tamang Pawan Kumar Chamling Party Sikkim Krantikari Morcha Sikkim Democratic Front Alliance NDA Leader since 2014 1994 Leader's seat Didn't contest Namchi-Singhithang, Rangang-Yangang Seats before 10 22 Seats won 17 15 Seat change 7 7 Percentage 47.17% 47.63% Swing 6.37% 7.37%
Map of the election results. The Sangha seat, elected by the monks, is not shown here.
Chief Minister of Sikkim before election Prem Singh Tamang Sikkim Democratic Front Chief Minister of Sikkim Prem Singh Tamang Sikkim Krantikari Morcha

Legislative Assembly elections were held in Sikkim on 11 April 2019 to elect the 32 members of the ninth Legislative Assembly. The term of the eighth Sikkim Legislative Assembly ended on 27 May 2019.

Schedule of election

Poll Event	Date
Issue of Notification	Monday 18 March 2019
Last Date for filing Nominations	Monday 25 March 2019
Scrutiny of Nominations	Tuesday, 26 March 2019
Last date for withdrawal of Candidature	Thursday,28 March 2019
Date of Poll	Thursday, 11 April 2019
Counting of Votes	Thursday, 23 May 2019
Date of election being completed	Sunday, 2 June 2019
Source: Election Commission of India

Results

Results (Party-wise)

Results were announced on 23 May, 2019.

Party		Contested	Won	+/–	Votes	%	+/–
	Sikkim Krantikari Morcha	32	17	7	1,65,508	47.03	6.23
	Sikkim Democratic Front	32	15	7	1,67,620	47.63	7.37
	Bharatiya Janata Party	12	0		5,700	1.62	0.92
	Indian National Congress	24	0		2,721	0.77	0.63
	Hamro Sikkim Party	23	0		2,098	0.60
	Independents		0
Total			32
Source: Election Commission of India

Results (Constituency-wise)

The winners of the election and their parties are listed below. Seats marked SC and BL are reserved for Scheduled Castes and Bhotia-Lepcha respectively.

No.	Constituency Name	Member	Party
1	Yoksam–Tashiding (BL)	Sangay Lepcha		SKM
2	Yangthang	Bhim Hang Limboo		SKM
3	Maneybong-Dentam	Narendra Kumar Subba (Joined BJP)		SDF
				BJP
4	Gyalshing-Barnyak	Lok Nath Sharma		SKM
5	Rinchenpong	Karma Sonam Lepcha (Joined BJP)		SDF
		BJP
6	Daramdin	Mingma Norbu Sherpa		SKM
7	Soreng-Chakung	Aditya Tamang (Golay)		SKM
8	Salghari-Zoom (SC)	Sunita Gajmer		SKM
9	Barfung (BL)	Tashi Thendup Bhutia		SDF
10	Poklok-Kamrang	Pawan Kumar Chamling		SDF
11	Namchi-Singhithang	Pawan Kumar Chamling		SDF
12	Melli	Farwanti Tamang		SDF
13	Namthang Rateypani	Sanjit Kharel		SKM
14	Temi Namphing	Bedu Singh Panth		SKM
15	Rangang-Yangang	Rajkumari Thaba		SDF
16	Tumin Lingee (BL)	Ugyen Tshering Gyatso Bhutia		SDF
17	Khamdong Singtam	Dr Mani Kumar Sharma		SKM
18	West Pendam (SC)	L. B. Das		SKM
19	Rhenock	Bishnu Kumar Sharma (Khatiwara)		SKM
20	Chujachen	Krishna Bahadur Rai (Joined BJP)		SDF
21	Gnathang-Machong (BL)	Dorjee Tshering Lepcha		SDF
22	Namchaybong	EM Prasad Sharma		SKM
23	Shyari (BL)	Kunga Nima Lepcha		SKM
24	Martam Rumtek (BL)	Dorjee Tshering Lepcha		SDF
25	Upper Tadong	Gay Tshering Dhungel		SKM
26	Arithang	Arun Kumar Upreti		SKM
27	Gangtok (BL)	a) Kunga Nima Lepcha b) Yong Tshering Lepcha (bye-poll)		SKM
28	Upper Burtuk	Dilli Ram Thapa (Joined BJP)		SDF
29	Kabi Lungchuk (BL)	Karma Loday Bhutia		SKM
30	Djongu (BL)	Pintso Namgyal Lepcha		SDF
31	Lachen Mangan (BL)	Samdup Lepcha		SKM
32	Sangha	Sonam Lama		SKM

Changes after election and bye-election

After the assembly election, 1 MLA from SKM and 2 MLAs from SDF each vacated their second seat after being elected from two constituencies.Thus the numbers are SKM 16, SDF 13 and 3 Vacant. Before the by-elections to these three vacant seats were held, 10 MLAs of SDF defected to BJP and 2 MLAs of SDF defected to SKM, leaving SDF with only 1 MLA. SKM had 18 MLAs and BJP had 10 MLAs. In the by-elections held on 21 October, 2019, BJP won two seats and SKM one seat. The final seat numbers are: SKM 19 seats, BJP 12 seats and SDF 1 seat.