Constituency
505. Darjeeling
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-DARJEELING
CPM 44.2%won by 19.3%INC 25.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 19.5% to 19.3%.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.2% to 45.5%.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,76,753
Turnout
45.5%
Valid votes
5,80,471
Margin
1,11,969
19.29%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1S.P. LepchaCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,56,82644.2%
- 2Nar Bahadur KhatiwaraIndian National Congress · INC1,44,85725.0%
- 3Tarun RoyAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,27,60322.0%
- 4R.B.RaiIndependent · IND31,7195.5%
- 5Sunil RoyIndependent · IND11,7972.0%
- 6Krishna Bhakta PaurelIndependent · IND5,1180.9%
- 7Sampad RoyIndependent · IND2,5510.4%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −0.3%
- CPM share
- 44.8% → 44.2%
- INC share
- 25.2% → 25.0%
- Turnout
- 50.6% → 45.5%