Constituency
22. Kalimpong
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-KALIMPONG
GNLF 55.1%won by 36.4%ABGL 18.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to GNLF (GNLF), which now leads by 36.4%.
- GNLF vote shareGNLF went from 0.0% to 55.1% of the vote here (+55.1%).
- New challengerABGL (ABGL) finished second with 18.7% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.9% between them, down from 79.5% — 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
91,347
Margin
33,241
36.39%
Candidates
11 contested · winner GNLF- 1GAULAN LEPCHAGNLF · GNLF50,36255.1%
- 2NORDEN LAMAABGL · ABGL17,12118.7%
- 3N.T. MOKTANIndependent · IND9,68310.6%
- 4MOHAN SINGH RAICommunist Party of India · CPI8,2429.0%
- 5PURAN LOHARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,1142.3%
- 6SUREN KHATIIndependent · IND1,4971.6%
- 7LESLIE JOHN CHATERIndependent · IND9051.0%
- 8BENOY KHATIIndependent · IND5120.6%
- 9ASHOK RAIIndependent · IND3860.4%
- 10GARJAMAN SINGH CINTURYIndependent · IND3140.3%
- 11PASANG SADAIndependent · IND2110.2%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- GNLFflipped
- GNLF–ABGL swing
- +36.4%
- GNLF share
- 0.0% → 55.1%
- ABGL share
- 0.0% → 18.7%
- Turnout
- — → —