Constituency
505. Darjeeling
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2014
IN-DARJEELING
BJP 42.8%won by 17.3%AITC 25.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.2% to 17.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 25.5% — it did not contest here in 2009.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.2% between them, down from 76.8% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
14,37,154
Turnout
79.5%
Valid votes
11,42,009
Margin
1,97,239
17.27%
Candidates
14 contested · winner BJP- 1S.S.AHLUWALIABharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,88,25742.8%
- 2BHAI CHUNG BHUTIAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC2,91,01825.5%
- 3SAMAN PATHAK (SURAJ)Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,67,18614.6%
- 4SUJAY GHATAKIndian National Congress · INC90,0767.9%
- 5MAHENDRA P. LAMAIndependent · IND55,7674.9%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA18,0451.6%
- 7RABINDRA ROY BASUNIAIndependent · IND6,1000.5%
- 8KAKALI MAJUMDAR (ROY)Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP6,0400.5%
- 9ARUN KUMAR AGARWALIndependent · IND5,4490.5%
- 10GOUTAM BHATTACHARYASUCI · SUCI3,9930.3%
- 11SUNIL PANDITRJNP · RJNP3,0430.3%
- 12NIMA LAMAG · G2,9060.3%
- 13LALIT SINGHABMUP · BMUP2,1000.2%
- 14NIRANJAN SAHAAMB · AMB2,0290.2%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–AITC swing
- −34.2%
- BJP share
- 51.5% → 42.8%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 25.5%
- Turnout
- 79.5% → 79.5%