Constituency
27. Martam
Community mirrorSikkim Assembly Election, 1989
SK-MARTAM
SSP 49.4%won by 21.3%INC 28.0%
What changed here
DerivedSamyukta Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 51.1% to 21.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 24.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.4% between them, down from 96.1% — the field split more ways.
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
3,986
Margin
850
21.32%
Candidates
6 contested · winner SSP- 1CHAMLA TSHERINGSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP1,96849.4%
- 2SAMTEN TSHERINGIndian National Congress · INC1,11828.0%
- 3RINCHEN TOPDENIndependent · IND69217.4%
- 4PHIGU THAKPARIS · RIS1373.4%
- 5NAKU LEPCHAIndependent · IND461.2%
- 6CHUNG CHUNG BHUTIAIndependent · IND250.6%
Since 1985
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- SSP
- SSP–INC swing
- −29.8%
- SSP share
- 73.6% → 49.4%
- INC share
- 22.5% → 28.0%
- Turnout
- — → —