Constituency
28. Rumtek
Community mirrorSikkim Assembly Election, 1989
SK-RUMTEK
SSP 65.3%won by 36.5%INC 28.8%
What changed here
DerivedSamyukta Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 41.3% to 36.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.0% of the vote between them, up from 81.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
4,788
Margin
1,749
36.53%
Candidates
3 contested · winner SSP- 1O. T. BHUTIASamyukta Socialist Party · SSP3,12665.3%
- 2SONAM PINTSO WANGDIIndian National Congress · INC1,37728.8%
- 3PHIGU TSHERINGRIS · RIS2856.0%
Since 1985
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- SSP
- SSP–INC swing
- −4.8%
- SSP share
- 61.4% → 65.3%
- INC share
- 20.2% → 28.8%
- Turnout
- — → —