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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
As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in 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 | Bharat Chhetri | Template:Party name with color | Template:Party name with color | ||
| 23 | Darjeeling | Darjeeling | Noman Rai | ||||
| 24 | Kurseong | Sonam Lama | |||||
| 25 | Matigara-Naxalbari (SC) | Anandamoy Barman | |||||
| 26 | Siliguri | Shankar Ghosh | |||||
| 27 | Phansidewa (ST) | Durga Murmu | |||||
| 28 | Chopra | Uttar Dinajpur | Hamidul Rahman | Template:Party name with color | Template:Party name with color | ||
Members of Parliament
| Year | Name[2][3] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Theodore Manaen | Template:Full party name with color | |
| 1962 | |||
| 1967 | Maitreyee Basu | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Independent |
| 1971 | Ratanlal Brahmin | style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1977 | Krishna Bahadur Chhetri | Template:Full party name with color | |
| 1980 | Ananda Pathak | rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1984 | |||
| 1989 | Indrajit Khullar | Template:Full party name with color | |
| 1991 | Template:Full party name with color | ||
| 1996 | Ratna Bahadur Rai | rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1998 | Ananda Pathak | ||
| 1999 | S. P. Lepcha | ||
| 2004 | Dawa Narbula | Template:Full party name with color | |
| 2009 | Jaswant Singh | Template:Full party name with color | |
| 2014 | S. S. Ahluwalia | ||
| 2019 | Raju Bista | ||
| 2024 | |||
Election results
General election 2024
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General election 2019
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General election 2014
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General election 2009
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General election 2004
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General elections 1957-2014
Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:
| Year[4] | 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
Notes
References
- ↑ Delimitation Commission Order No. 18. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
- ↑ Darjeeling Lok Sabha Election Result - Parliamentary Constituency(4 June 2024).
- ↑ Darjeeling (West Bengal) Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 -Darjeeling Parliamentary Constituency, Winning MP's till 2019(2024).
- ↑ Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
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