Constituency
23. Darjeeling
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1996
WB-DARJEELING
GNLF 50.9%won by 25.2%CPM 25.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to GNLF (GNLF), which now leads by 25.2%.
- GNLF vote shareGNLF went from 0.0% to 50.9% of the vote here (+50.9%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 25.7% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.6% between them, down from 95.0% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,01,203
Margin
25,467
25.16%
Candidates
8 contested · winner GNLF- 1NAR BAHADUR CHETTRIGNLF · GNLF51,50150.9%
- 2KAMALA SANSKRITYAYANACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM26,03425.7%
- 3MADAN KUMAR RAI (BANTAWA)ABGL · ABGL18,50318.3%
- 4PRAHLAD PRASAD GUPTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,6022.6%
- 5RAJA RAIAIICT · AIICT1,1811.2%
- 6PRAMOD TAMANGIndependent · IND6800.7%
- 7BHUTIA PEMA TSHERING LAMAIndependent · IND3860.4%
- 8AHMAD MANSURMUL · MUL3160.3%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- GNLFflipped
- GNLF–CPM swing
- +25.2%
- GNLF share
- 0.0% → 50.9%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 25.7%
- Turnout
- — → —