Constituency
484. Darjeeling
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1967
IN-DARJEELING
IND 39.3%won by 0.7%INC 38.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 0.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 3.7% to 39.3% of the vote here (+35.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.8% of the vote between them, up from 65.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 11.2% to 56.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,42,750
Turnout
56.1%
Valid votes
2,48,199
Margin
1,831
0.74%
Candidates
4 contested · winner IND- 1M. BASUIndependent · IND97,47639.3%
- 2T. MANAENIndian National Congress · INC95,64538.5%
- 3R. K. SINHACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM42,13617.0%
- 4B. M. BHATTACHARJEEBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS12,9425.2%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +32.0%
- IND share
- 3.7% → 39.3%
- INC share
- 35.0% → 38.5%
- Turnout
- 44.8% → 56.1%