Darjeeling (Lok Sabha constituency)

Darjeeling Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Darjeeling in West Bengal.

Election results

General Election, 2009: Darjeeling[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Jaswant Singh	497,649	51.75
	CPI(M)	Jibesh Sarkar	244,360	25.41
	Congress	Dawa Narbula	187,809	19.53
	Independent	Ram Ganesh Baraik	13,236	1.38
	BSP	Haridas Thakur	5,083	0.53
	CPI(ML)(L)	Abhijit Majumdar	3,818	0.40
	AMB	Niranjan Saha	3,717	0.39
	Independent	Arun Kumar Agarwal	3,229	0.34
	IPFB	Baidyanath Roy	2,686	0.28
	Independent	Nitu Jai	0	0.00
Turnout			964,801
	BJP gain from Congress		Swing

Results prior to 2009

Results of elections held prior to 2009 are summarised below:

1951-1971

The winners are shown below. ^[2]

Year	Winner	Party
1957	T.Manen	Congress
1962	T.Manen	Congress
1967	M.Basu	Independent
1971	M.Basu	Independent

1977-2004

Year	Voters	Voter Turnout	Winner			Runners up
		%age	Candidate	%age	Party	Candidate	%age	Party
1977[3]	2,72,140	43.35	Krishna Bahadur Chhetri	41.81	INC	Ratanlal Brahmin	34.75	CPI(M)
1980	419.40	56.66	Ananda Pathak	45.75	CPI(M)	Krishna Bahadur Chhetri	41.27	INC(I)
1984	5,61,740	68.13	Ananda Pathak	41.96	CPI(M)	Dawa Narbula	41.71	INC
1989	7,88,360	74.26	Inderjeet	56.49	GNLF	Ananda Pathak	37.65	CPI(M)
1991	7,62,890	69.59	Inderjeet	48.07	INC	Ananda Pathak	41.04	CPI (M)
1996	8,43,300	69.52	R.B.Rai	45.91	CPI (M)	Krishna Bahadur Chhetri	36.00	INC
1998	6,41,280	51.78	Ananda Pathak	44.75	CPI (M)	Prasanta Nandy	25.21	INC
1999	5,90,020	46.21	S.P.Lepcha	44.24	CPI (M)	Nar Bahadur Khatiwara	24.96	INC
2004	8,88,320	71.11	Dawa Narbula	44.70	INC	Moni Thapa	33.28	CPI(M)

See also

• Darjeeling district
• List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha

References

1. ^ "General Elections, 2009 (15th Lok Sabha) Constituency Wise Detailed Results". West Bengal. Election Commission of India. http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/archiveofge2009/Stats/VOLI/25_ConstituencyWiseDetailedResult.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-25. 
2. ^ "Statistical Reports of Elections". General Election Results and Statistics. Election Commission of India. http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/electionstatistics.asp. Retrieved 2010-11-15. 
3. ^ "4 - Darjeeling Parliamentary Constituency, West Bengal". Partywise Comparison since 1977. Election Commission of India. http://www.eci.nic.in/eci_main/electionanalysis/GE/PartyCompWinner/S25/partycomp04.htm. Retrieved 2010-10-01. 

Coordinates: 27°02′20″N 88°15′50″E / 27.039°N 88.264°E / 27.039; 88.264