Constituency
12. Melli
Community mirrorSikkim Assembly Election, 2009
SK-MELLI
SDF 67.5%won by 41.2%INC 26.3%
What changed here
DerivedSikkim Democratic Front held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.0% to 41.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 26.3% — it did not contest here in 2004.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.7% of the vote between them, up from 0.0% — 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
9,347
Margin
3,853
41.22%
Candidates
8 contested · winner SDF- 1TULSHI DEVI RAISikkim Democratic Front · SDF6,30767.5%
- 2DIL KRI. CHHETRIIndian National Congress · INC2,45426.3%
- 3BHOLA CHAWANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1481.6%
- 4BHAGIRATH BHANDARICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1301.4%
- 5SHIVA DAS RAIIndependent · IND1191.3%
- 6PHULCHAND RAISGPP · SGPP840.9%
- 7JASHRAM RAINationalist Congress Party · NCP680.7%
- 8TILAK PSD. RAISJEP · SJEP370.4%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- SDF
- Winner now
- SDF
- SDF–INC swing
- +41.2%
- SDF share
- 0.0% → 67.5%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 26.3%
- Turnout
- — → —