Constituency
5. Rinchenpong
Community mirrorSikkim · Sikkim Assembly Election, 2014
SK-RINCHENPONG
SDF 68.4%won by 41.5%SKM 26.9%
What changed here
DerivedSikkim Democratic Front held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 48.5% to 41.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) finished second with 26.9% — it did not contest here in 2009.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,515
Turnout
85.9%
Valid votes
10,746
Margin
4,456
41.47%
Candidates
6 contested · winner SDF- 1KARMA SONAM LEPCHASikkim Democratic Front · SDF7,34768.4%
- 2PEMA KINZANG BHUTIASikkim Krantikari Morcha · SKM2,89126.9%
- 3LATEN TSHERING SHERPABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1861.7%
- 4KARSANG SHERPAIndian National Congress · INC1321.2%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA970.9%
- 6PHUR TSHERING LEPCHAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC930.9%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- SDF
- Winner now
- SDF
- SDF–SKM swing
- −31.2%
- SDF share
- 72.7% → 68.4%
- SKM share
- 0.0% → 26.9%
- Turnout
- — → 85.9%