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Darjeeling Lok Sabha constituency

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Darjeeling
WB-4
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateWest Bengal
Assembly constituenciesKalimpong
Darjeeling
Kurseong
Matigara-Naxalbari
Siliguri
Phansidewa
Chopra
Established1957-present
Total electors1,437,126
ReservationNone
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Party Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2024

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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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]

# 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

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Year Name[2] Party
1957 Theodore Manaen Indian National Congress
1962
1967 Maitreyee Basu Independent
1971 Ratanlal Brahmin Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1977 Krishna Bahadur Chhetri Indian National Congress
1980 Ananda Pathak Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1984
1989 Inderjeet Gorkha National Liberation Front
1991 Indian National Congress
1996 Ratna Bahadur Rai Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1998 Ananda Pathak
1999 S. P. Lepcha
2004 Dawa Narbula Indian National Congress
2009 Jaswant Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
2014 S. S. Ahluwalia
2019 Raju Bista
2024

Election results

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General election 2024

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2024 Indian general election: Darjeeling
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Raju Bista 679,331 51.18 Decrease8.01
AITC Gopal Lama 5,00,806 37.73 Increase11.17
INC Munish Tamang 83,374 6.28 Increase1.14
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 Decrease4.04
BJP hold Swing

General election 2019

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2019 Indian general elections: Darjeeling
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

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2014 Indian general elections: Darjeeling[3]
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

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General Election, 2009: Darjeeling[3]
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

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General Election, 2004: Darjeeling[3]
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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
  2. ^ "Darjeeling Parliamentary Constituency, Winning MP and Party Name". www.elections.in.
  3. ^ a b c d "Election Results - Full Statistical Reports". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 19 April 2019.

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