Constituency
491. Darjeeling
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989
IN-DARJEELING
GNLF 56.5%won by 18.8%CPM 37.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to GNLF (GNLF), which now leads by 18.8%.
- GNLF vote shareGNLF went from 0.0% to 56.5% of the vote here (+56.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.1% of the vote between them, up from 83.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.5% to 72.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,61,634
Turnout
72.5%
Valid votes
7,70,130
Margin
1,45,105
18.84%
Candidates
11 contested · winner GNLF- 1INDERJEETGNLF · GNLF4,35,07056.5%
- 2ANANDA PATHAKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,89,96537.7%
- 3MOHAN KUMAR RAIIndependent · IND18,8432.4%
- 4KRISHNA BHAKTA POUDYALIndependent · IND9,6681.3%
- 5J. D. S. RAIGOLBG · GOLBG4,4260.6%
- 6BIRENDRA NATH BARMANIndependent · IND3,7440.5%
- 7ARUN PRASAD SARKARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,4520.3%
- 8P. P. RAIIndependent · IND2,0090.3%
- 9DURGA PRADHANIndependent · IND1,5340.2%
- 10KAMINI MOHAN ROYIndependent · IND1,2940.2%
- 11PARBANANDA BARMANIndependent · IND1,1250.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- GNLFflipped
- GNLF–CPM swing
- +60.8%
- GNLF share
- 0.0% → 56.5%
- CPM share
- 42.0% → 37.7%
- Turnout
- 66.1% → 72.5%