Constituency
23. Darjeeling
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2021
WB-DARJEELING
BJP 40.9%won by 12.6%IND 28.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: GOJAM (GOJAM) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 12.6%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 0.0% to 40.9% of the vote here (+40.9%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.1% between them, down from 88.4% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,47,576
Turnout
68.1%
Valid votes
1,68,575
Margin
21,276
12.62%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1NEERAJ TAMANG ZIMBABharatiya Janata Party · BJP68,90740.9%
- 2KESHAV RAJ SHARMAIndependent · IND47,63128.3%
- 3PEMBA TSHERINGIndependent · IND38,24022.7%
- 4SURAJ GURUNGIndependent · IND2,8551.7%
- 5None Of The AboveNOTA · NOTA2,5401.5%
- 6NIMA GYAMTSHO SHERPAIndependent · IND2,0881.2%
- 7GAUTAM RAJ RAICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,9131.1%
- 8ANJANI SHARMAIndependent · IND1,6771.0%
- 9MILAN THOKARIndependent · IND1,3970.8%
- 10BHARAT PRAKASH RAIIndependent · IND1,3270.8%
Since 2016
Derived- Winner then
- GOJAM
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–IND swing
- +18.3%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 40.9%
- IND share
- 5.6% → 28.3%
- Turnout
- 67.1% → 68.1%