Constituency
22. Kalimpong
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2026
WB-KALIMPONG
BJP 49.7%won by 12.7%BGPM 37.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 12.7%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 35.1% to 49.7% of the vote here (+14.6%).
- New challengerBGPM (BGPM) finished second with 37.1% — it did not contest here in 2021.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.8% of the vote between them, up from 72.7% — 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
1,69,477
Margin
21,464
12.66%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1BHARAT KUMAR CHETRIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP84,29049.7%
- 2RUDEN SADA LEPCHABGPM · BGPM62,82637.1%
- 3BHERNONE BRITTO LEPCHAIndependent · IND14,2318.4%
- 4NOTANOTA · NOTA2,0601.2%
- 5SISIR KUMAR SHARMAABGL · ABGL1,9611.2%
- 6SANTA KUMAR PRADHANIndian National Congress · INC1,8091.1%
- 7ALDRIN LEPCHAIndependent · IND1,3890.8%
- 8RITA THAPACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9110.5%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–BGPM swing
- −22.4%
- BJP share
- 35.1% → 49.7%
- BGPM share
- 0.0% → 37.1%
- Turnout
- 72.6% → —