Constituency
505. Darjeeling
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-DARJEELING
INC 44.7%won by 11.4%CPM 33.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 25.0% to 44.7% of the vote here (+19.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.0% of the vote between them, up from 69.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 25.6% to 71.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,49,238
Turnout
71.1%
Valid votes
8,88,083
Margin
1,01,416
11.42%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1Dawa NarbulaIndian National Congress · INC3,96,97344.7%
- 2Moni ThapaCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,95,55733.3%
- 3Dr. G. S. YonzoneBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,13,97212.8%
- 4Sanjay ThakuriIndependent · IND20,9882.4%
- 5Mohan ChhetriIndependent · IND14,8571.7%
- 6Raju BhattaIndependent · IND11,1121.3%
- 7Bimal DuttaBahujan Samaj Party · BSP10,7581.2%
- 8Kishalay Kanti SharmaIndependent · IND8,6951.0%
- 9Lalit BarmanIndependent · IND8,6901.0%
- 10Tika PradhanIndependent · IND6,4810.7%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +30.7%
- INC share
- 25.0% → 44.7%
- CPM share
- 44.2% → 33.3%
- Turnout
- 45.5% → 71.1%