Constituency
505. Darjeeling
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-DARJEELING
CPM 45.9%won by 9.9%INC 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 9.9%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 41.0% to 45.9% of the vote here (+4.9%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.9% between them, down from 89.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.1% to 64.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,12,950
Turnout
64.2%
Valid votes
7,78,249
Margin
77,124
9.91%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1R B RAICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,57,29145.9%
- 2K B CHETTRIIndian National Congress · INC2,80,16736.0%
- 3GEETA CHATTERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP68,4218.8%
- 4GAZENDRA GURUNGIndependent · IND29,4993.8%
- 5KRISHNA BHAKTA POURELIndependent · IND16,5112.1%
- 6USMANI MUSTAKIndependent · IND14,4321.9%
- 7KAMINI MOHAN ROYIndependent · IND7,4741.0%
- 8PURNENDU CHATTERJEEIndependent · IND2,3590.3%
- 9MOHAMMAD ZAMIL AHAMADMUL · MUL2,0950.3%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +16.9%
- CPM share
- 41.0% → 45.9%
- INC share
- 48.1% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- 67.3% → 64.2%