Darjeeling Lok Sabha constituency
| Darjeeling WB-4 | |
|---|---|
| Lok Sabha constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| Assembly constituencies | Kalimpong Darjeeling Kurseong Matigara-Naxalbari Siliguri Phansidewa Chopra |
| Established | 1957-present |
| Total electors | 1,437,126 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Parliament | |
| 18th Lok Sabha | |
 | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party |  Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Elected year | 2024 |
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
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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]
| # | Name | District | Member | Party | 2024 Lead | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | Kalimpong | Kalimpong | Ruden Sada Lepcha | BGPM | BJP | ||
| 23 | Darjeeling | Darjeeling | Neeraj Zimba | BJP | BJP | ||
| 24 | Kurseong | Bishnu Prasad Sharma | BJP | BJP | |||
| 25 | Matigara-Naxalbari (SC) | Anandamoy Barman | BJP | BJP | |||
| 26 | Siliguri | Sankar Ghosh | BJP | BJP | |||
| 27 | Phansidewa (ST) | Durga Murmu | BJP | BJP | |||
| 28 | Chopra | Uttar Dinajpur | Hamidul Rahman | TMC | TMC | ||
Members of Parliament
[edit]Election results
[edit]General election 2024
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Raju Bista | 679,331 | 51.18 |  8.01
| |
| AITC | Gopal Lama | 5,00,806 | 37.73 |  11.17
| |
| INC | Munish Tamang | 83,374 | 6.28 | 1.14
| |
| 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 | ||
| API | Pradhan Mardi | 2,747 | 0.21 | ||
| AMB | 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 | ||
| Kamatapur People’s Party (United) | Budharu Roy | 1,762 | 0.13 | ||
| SUCI(C) | Shahriar Alam | 1,614 | 0.12 | ||
| GRC | Subodh Pakhrin | 1,331 | 0.10 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 18,021 | 1.36 | ||
| Majority | 1,78,525 | ||||
| Turnout | 74.76 | 4.04
| |||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
General election 2019
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Raju Bista | 750,067 | 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 | ||
| NOTA | 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]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | S. S. Ahluwalia | 488,257 | 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 | |
| NOTA | 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]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Jaswant Singh | 497,649 | 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]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Dawa Narbula | 396,973 | 44.7 | ||
| CPI(M) | Moni Thapa | 2,95,557 | 33.28 | ||
| BJP | Dr. G.S. Yonzone | 1,13,972 | 12.83 | ||
| Independent | Sanjay Thakuri | 20,988 | 2.36 | ||
| Independent | Mohan Chhetri | 14,857 | 1.67 | ||
| Independent | Raju Bhatta | 11,112 | 1.25 | ||
| BSP | Bimal Dutta | 10,758 | 1.21 | ||
| AMB | Kishalay Kanti Sharma | 8,695 | 0.98 | ||
| Independent | Lalit Barman | 8,690 | 0.97 | ||
| Independent | Tika Pradhan | 6481 | 0.73 | ||
| Majority | 1,01,416 | 11.42 | |||
| Turnout | 8,88,083 | ||||
| INC gain from CPI(M) | Swing | ||||
General elections 1957-2014
[edit]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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
- ^ "Darjeeling Parliamentary Constituency, Winning MP and Party Name". www.elections.in.
- ^ a b c d "Election Results - Full Statistical Reports". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
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