Constituency
31. Gangtok
Community mirrorSikkim Assembly Election, 1985
SK-GANGTOK
IND 43.2%won by 5.6%SSP 37.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samajwadi Jan Parishad (SJP) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 5.6%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 9.6% to 43.2% of the vote here (+33.6%).
- New challengerSamyukta Socialist Party (SSP) finished second with 37.6% — it did not contest here in 1979.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.7% of the vote between them, up from 65.6% — 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
4,656
Margin
261
5.61%
Candidates
12 contested · winner IND- 1BALCHAND SARDAIndependent · IND2,01043.2%
- 2DIL KUMARI BHANDARISamyukta Socialist Party · SSP1,74937.6%
- 3M.K.CHETRIIndian National Congress · INC46910.1%
- 4SONAM GYATSO TRATENGIndependent · IND2084.5%
- 5PASSANG OBED PAZOIndependent · IND721.5%
- 6JAMES BASNETIndependent · IND390.8%
- 7KIRAN CHETRIIndependent · IND380.8%
- 8KALAWATI SUBBASPC · SPC270.6%
- 9CHYANGHA TAMANGJanata Party · JNP250.5%
- 10ANAND PRAKASH BASNETIndependent · IND90.2%
- 11DHAN MAYA CHETTRIIndependent · IND80.2%
- 12DAMBER KUMARI PRADHANIndependent · IND20.0%
Since 1979
Derived- Winner then
- SJP
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–SSP swing
- −4.0%
- IND share
- 9.6% → 43.2%
- SSP share
- 0.0% → 37.6%
- Turnout
- — → —