Constituency
13. Damthang
Community mirrorSikkim Assembly Election, 1985
SK-DAMTHANG
SSP 73.8%won by 57.0%INC 16.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: SCR (SCR) lost it to Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP), which now leads by 57.0%.
- SSP vote shareSSP went from 0.0% to 73.8% of the vote here (+73.8%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Samajwadi Jan Parishad (SJP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.6% of the vote between them, up from 50.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
3,091
Margin
1,762
57.00%
Candidates
8 contested · winner SSP- 1PAWAN KUMAR CHAMLINGSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP2,28173.8%
- 2PRADEEP YONZONGIndian National Congress · INC51916.8%
- 3S. K. RAIIndependent · IND1565.0%
- 4BINOD RAIIndependent · IND1083.5%
- 5NORDEN BHUTIAIndependent · IND140.5%
- 6NARMAN TAMANGJanata Party · JNP90.3%
- 7LAKPA TSERING TAMANGIndependent · IND30.1%
- 8MAHENDRA KUMAR RAIIndependent · IND10.0%
Since 1979
Derived- Winner then
- SCR
- Winner now
- SSPflipped
- SSP–INC swing
- +65.8%
- SSP share
- 0.0% → 73.8%
- INC share
- 8.8% → 16.8%
- Turnout
- — → —