Constituency
505. Darjeeling
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2019
IN-DARJEELING
BJP 59.2%won by 32.6%AITC 26.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.3% to 32.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.8% of the vote between them, up from 68.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
16,11,317
Turnout
78.7%
Valid votes
12,67,270
Margin
4,13,443
32.62%
Candidates
17 contested · winner BJP- 1RAJU BISTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,50,06759.2%
- 2AMAR SINGH RAIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC3,36,62426.6%
- 3Sankar MalakarIndian National Congress · INC65,1865.1%
- 4SAMAN PATHAKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM50,5244.0%
- 5RAJESH SINGHIndependent · IND15,9731.3%
- 6NIRODE CHANDRA ADHIKARYIndependent · IND10,7190.8%
- 7NOTANOTA · NOTA10,6250.8%
- 8HARKA BAHADUR CHHETRIAIJAP · AIJAP6,4950.5%
- 9DIGBIJAY MANDALIndependent · IND4,1170.3%
- 10RESEEKA CHETTRIIndependent · IND3,3590.3%
- 11BHARAT DONGG · G2,9520.2%
- 12SUDIP MANDALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,2590.2%
- 13AJAY DAHALIndependent · IND2,1990.2%
- 14CHRISTOPHER GAHATRAJIDRP · IDRP1,6780.1%
- 15DIPAK KUMAR ROYKPPU · KPPU1,5390.1%
- 16SUNIL PANDITRJNP · RJNP1,5050.1%
- 17TANMAY DUTTASUCIC · SUCIC1,4490.1%
Since 2014
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–AITC swing
- +15.4%
- BJP share
- 42.8% → 59.2%
- AITC share
- 25.5% → 26.6%
- Turnout
- 79.5% → 78.7%