Constituency
14. Melli
Community mirrorSikkim Assembly Election, 1989
SK-MELLI
SSP 75.7%won by 61.7%IND 14.0%
What changed here
DerivedSamyukta Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 47.4% to 61.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Safe seatSamyukta Socialist Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
4,492
Margin
2,773
61.73%
Candidates
4 contested · winner SSP- 1DILLIRAM BASNETSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP3,40075.7%
- 2GIRISH CHANDRA RAIIndependent · IND62714.0%
- 3MAN BAHADUR TAMANGRIS · RIS2876.4%
- 4BISHNU KUMAR RAIIndependent · IND1784.0%
Since 1985
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- SSP
- SSP–IND swing
- −3.6%
- SSP share
- 70.8% → 75.7%
- IND share
- 5.4% → 14.0%
- Turnout
- — → —