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{{short description|Lok Sabha Constituency in West Bengal, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2017}}
{{Infobox Lok Sabha Constituency
|image = {{Maplink|frame=yes|plain=y|frame-width=300|frame-height=300|frame-align=center|type=shape|from=Lok Sabha constituencies/2019/West Bengal/Darjeeling.map}}
|caption = Interactive Map Outlining Darjeeling Lok Sabha Constituency
|Existence = 1957-present
|Reservation = None
|CurrentMPParty = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|CurrentMP = [[Raju Bista]]
|ElectedByYear = [[2019 Indian general elections|2019]]
|State = [[West Bengal]]
|AssemblyConstituencies = [[Kalimpong (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalimpong]] [[Darjeeling (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Darjeeling]] [[Kurseong (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kurseong]] [[Matigara-Naxalbari (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Matigara-Naxalbari]] [[Siliguri (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Siliguri]] [[Phansidewa (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Phansidewa]] [[Chopra (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Chopra]]
|Electorate = 1,437,126
|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]].

==Assembly segments==
[[File:Westbengalen Wahlkreise Lok Sabha.svg|thumb|350 px|right|'''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:<ref name =delimitation>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/WestBengal/FINAL%20ORDER%20NOTIFICATION_English.pdf | title = Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 | access-date = 27 May 2009 | work = Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies | publisher =Government of West Bengal}}</ref>

{|class="wikitable" width="500px"
!width="50px" style="font-size:75%"|Constituency number
!width="150px"|Name
!width="150px" style="font-size:75%"|Reserved for ([[Dalit|SC]]/[[Adivasi|ST]]/None)
!width="150px"|District
!width="150px"|Party
!width="150px"|MLA
|-
|22
|[[Kalimpong (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalimpong]]
|None
|[[Kalimpong District|Kalimpong]]
|bgcolor="{{party color|Gorkha Janmukti Morcha}}"|[[Gorkha Janmukti Morcha|GJM]]
|[[Ruden Sada Lepcha]]
|-
|23
|[[Darjeeling (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Darjeeling]]
|None
|[[Darjeeling District|Darjeeling]]
|bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}"|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|[[Neeraj Zimba]]
|-
|24
|[[Kurseong (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kurseong]]
|None
|[[Darjeeling District|Darjeeling]]
|bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}"|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|Bishnu Prasad Sharma
|-
|25
|[[Matigara-Naxalbari (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Matigara-Naxalbari]]
|SC
|[[Darjeeling District|Darjeeling]]
|bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}"|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|Anandamoy Barman
|-
|26
|[[Siliguri (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Siliguri]]
|None
|[[Darjeeling District|Darjeeling]]
|bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}"|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|[[Shankar Ghosh]]
|-
|27
|[[Phansidewa (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Phansidewa]]
|ST
|[[Darjeeling District|Darjeeling]]
|bgcolor="{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}"|
[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
|Durga Murmu
|-
|28
|[[Chopra (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Chopra]]
|None
|[[Uttar Dinajpur]]
|bgcolor="{{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}"|[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]
|Hamidul Rahman
|-
|}

==Members of Parliament==
{| class="wikitable"ìÍĦĤĠč
|-
! Lok Sabha<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>
!Duration!!Elected M.P.
!colspan="2"|Party Affiliation
!Constituency
|-
|[[2nd Lok Sabha|Second]]
|1957-62
|[[Theodore Manaen]]
| bgcolor=#00FFFF|
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|Darjeeling
|-
|[[3rd Lok Sabha|Third]]
|1962-67
|Theodore Manaen
| bgcolor=#00FFFF|
|Indian National Congress
|
|-
|[[4th Lok Sabha|Fourth]]
|1967-71
|[[Maitreyee Bose|Maitreyee Basu]]
|
|Independent
|
|-
|[[5th Lok Sabha|Fifth]] ||1971-77||[[Ratanlal Brahmin]]||bgcolor=#FF0000|
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]||
|-
| [[6th Lok Sabha|Sixth]]||1977-80||[[Krishna Bahadur Chhetri]]|| bgcolor=#00FFFF|
|Indian National Congress||
|-
| [[7th Lok Sabha|Seventh]]||1980-84||[[Ananda Pathak]]||bgcolor=#FF0000|
|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||
|-
|[[8th Lok Sabha|Eighth]]||1984-89||[[Ananda Pathak]]||bgcolor=#FF0000|
|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||
|-
| [[9th Lok Sabha|Ninth]]||1989-91||Inderjeet||bgcolor=#008000|
|[[Gorkha National Liberation Front]]||
|-
| [[10th Lok Sabha|Tenth]]||1991-96||Inderjeet|| bgcolor=#00FFFF|
|Indian National Congress||
|-
| [[11th Lok Sabha|Eleventh]]||1996-98||[[Ratna Bahadur Rai]]||bgcolor=#FF0000|
|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||
|-
| [[12th Lok Sabha|Twelfth]]||1998-99||[[Ananda Pathak]]||bgcolor=#FF0000|
|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||
|-
| [[13th Lok Sabha|Thirteenth]]||1999-04||[[S. P. Lepcha]]||bgcolor=#FF0000|
|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||
|-
|[[14th Lok Sabha|Fourteenth]]||2004-09||[[Dawa Narbula]]|| bgcolor=#00FFFF|
|Indian National Congress||
|-
|[[15th Lok Sabha|Fifteenth]]||2009-14||[[Jaswant Singh]]|| bgcolor=#FBB917|
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]||
|-
|[[16th Lok Sabha|Sixteenth]]||2014-19||[[S. S. Ahluwalia]]|| bgcolor=#FBB917|
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]||
|-
|[[17th Lok Sabha|Seventeenth]]||2019-[[incumbent]]||[[Raju Bista]]|| bgcolor=#FBB917|
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]||
|}

==Election results==
===General election 2019===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2019 Indian general elections]]: [[Darjeeling]]}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|candidate = [[Raju Bista]]
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|votes = 7,50,067
|percentage = 59.19
|change = +16.46
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|candidate = [[Amar Singh Rai]]
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|votes = 3,36,624
|percentage = 26.56
|change = -1.09
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|candidate = Sankar Malakar
|party = Indian National Congress
|votes = 65,186
|percentage = 5.14
|change = -2.74
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|candidate = [[Saman Pathak]]
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|votes = 50,524
|percentage = 3.99
|change = -10.64
}}
{{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 =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|candidate = [[None of the Above]]
|party = None of the Above
|votes = 10,625
|percentage = 0.84
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 4,13,443
|percentage = 32.63
|change = +15.37
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 12,69,666
|percentage = 78.80
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===General election 2014===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2014 Indian general elections]]: Darjeeling<ref name=DarjLokSabha/>}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=[[S. S. Ahluwalia]]|votes=4,88,257|percentage=42.73|change=+8.77}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=[[Bhaichung Bhutia]]|party=All India Trinamool Congress|votes=2,91,018|percentage=25.47|change=}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=[[Saman Pathak]]|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|votes=1,67,186|percentage=14.63|change=-10.66}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=Sujay Ghatak|party=Indian National Congress|votes=90,076|percentage=7.88|change=-11.55}}
{{Election box candidate with party link||candidate=[[None of the above|None of the Above]]|party=None of the Above|votes=18,045|percentage=1.58|change=---}}
{{Election box majority||votes=1,97,239|percentage=17.26|change=-8.95}}
{{Election box turnout||votes=11,42,009|percentage=80.20|change=+0.70}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|swing = -8.77
}}
{{Election box end}}

===General election 2009===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2009 Indian general elections|General Election, 2009]]: [[Darjeeling]]<ref name=DarjLokSabha/>
}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = [[Jaswant Singh]]
|votes = 4,97,649
|percentage = 51.50
|change = +38.67
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Jibesh Sarkar
|votes = 2,44,360
|percentage = 25.29
|change = -7.99
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = [[Dawa Narbula]]
|votes = 1,87,809
|percentage = 19.43
|change = -25.27
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent (politician)|Independent]]
|candidate = Ram Ganesh Baraik
|votes = 13,236
|percentage = 1.37
|change = +1.37
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Haridas Thakur
|votes = 5,083
|percentage = 0.53
|change = -0.68
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent (politician)|Independent]]
|candidate = Nitu Jai
|votes = 4,786
|percentage = 0.50
|change = +0.50
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
|candidate = Abhijit Majumdar
|votes = 3,818
|percentage = 0.40
|change = 0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Amra Bangalee
|candidate = Niranjan Saha
|votes = 3,717
|percentage = 0.38
|change = 0
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent (politician)|Independent]]
|candidate = Arun Kumar Agarwal
|votes = 3,227
|percentage = 0.33
|change = 0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian People's Forward Bloc
|candidate = Baidyanath Roy
|votes = 2,686
|percentage = 0.28
|change = 0
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 2,53,289
|percentage = 26.21
|change = +14.79
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 9,66,371
|percentage = 79.50
|change = +8.39
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|loser = Indian National Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===General election 2004===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2004 Indian general elections|General Election, 2004]]: [[Darjeeling]]<ref name=DarjLokSabha/>
}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Indian National Congress
|candidate = [[Dawa Narbula]]
|votes = 3,96,973
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Moni Thapa
|votes = 2,95,557
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Dr. G.S. Yonzone
|votes = 1,13,972
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent (politician)|Independent]]
|candidate = Sanjay Thakuri
|votes = 20,988
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)|Independent
|candidate = Mohan Chhetri
|votes = 14,857
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent (politician)|Independent]]
|candidate = Raju Bhatta
|votes = 11,112
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Bimal Dutta
|votes = 10,758
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Amra Bangalee
|candidate = Kishalay Kanti Sharma
|votes = 8,695
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent (politician)|Independent]]
|candidate = Lalit Barman
|votes = 8,690
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)|Independent
|candidate = Tika Pradhan
|votes = 6481
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 1,01,416
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 8,88,083
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Indian National Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===General elections 1957-2014===
Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! rowspan="2" |Year<ref name=DarjLokSabha/>
! colspan="2" |Voter Turnout
! colspan="3" |Winner
! colspan="3" |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)
|[[N.B. Khatiwada|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
|[[All India Trinamool Congress|TMC]]
|-
|2019
|12,67,270
|78.71
|[[Raju Bista]]
|59.19
|BJP
|Amar Singh Rai
|26.56
|TMC
|-
|}

==See also==
* [[Darjeeling district]]
* [[List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha#West Bengal|List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Lok Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}

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{{West Bengal elections}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Darjeeling (Lok Sabha Constituency)}}
[[Category:Politics of Darjeeling district]]
[[Category:Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Gorkhaland]]

Darjeeling Lok Sabha constituency - Revision history

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