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. While five assembly segments are in Darjeeling district, one assembly segment is in Kalimpong district and one assembly segment is in Uttar Dinajpur district.

Darjeeling
Lok Sabha Constituency
Raju Bista, MP since 2019
Incumbent	Raju Bista
Parliamentary Party	BJP
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1957-present
Reservation	None
State	West Bengal
Total Electors	1,437,126
Assembly Constituencies	Kalimpong Darjeeling Kurseong Matigara-Naxalbari (SC) Siliguri Phansidewa (ST) Chopra

Members of Parliament[1]

Lok Sabha	Duration	Name of M.P.	Party Affiliation	Constituency
Second	1957-62	Theodore Manaen	Indian National Congress	Darjeeling
Third	1962-67	Theodore Manaen	Indian National Congress
Fourth	1967-71	Maitreyee Basu	Independent
Fifth	1971-77	Ratanlal Brahmin	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Sixth	1977-80	Krishna Bahadur Chhetri	Indian National Congress
Seventh	1980-84	Ananda Pathak	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Eighth	1984-89	Ananda Pathak	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Ninth	1989-91	Inderjeet	Gorkha National Liberation Front
Tenth	1991-96	Inderjeet	Indian National Congress
Eleventh	1996-98	Ratna Bahadur Rai	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Twelfth	1998-99	Ananda Pathak	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Thirteenth	1999-04	S. P. Lepcha	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Fourteenth	2004-09	Dawa Narbula	Indian National Congress
Fifteenth	2009-14	Jaswant Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
Sixteenth	2014-19	S. S. Ahluwalia	Bharatiya Janata Party
Seventeenth	2019-incumbent	Raju Bista	Bharatiya Janata Party

Assembly segments

Parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal - 1. Cooch Behar, 2. Alipurduars, 3. Jalpaiguri, 4. Darjeeling, 5. Raiganj, 6. Balurghat, 7. Maldaha Uttar, 8. Maldaha Dakshin, 9. Jangipur, 10. Baharampur, 11. Murshidabad, 12. Krishnanagar, 13. Ranaghat, 14. Bangaon, 15. Barrackpore, 16. Dum Dum, 17. Barasat, 18. Basirhat, 19. Jaynagar, 20. Mathurapur, 21. Diamond Harbour, 22. Jadavpur, 23. Kolkata Dakshin, 24. Kolkata Uttar, 25. Howrah, 26. Uluberia, 27. Serampore, 28. Hoghly, 29. Arambagh, 30. Tamluk, 31, Kanthi, 32. Ghatal, 33. Jhargram, 34. Medinipur, 35. Purulia, 36. Bankura, 37. Bishnupur, 38. Bardhaman Purba, 39. Bardhaman Durgapur, 40. Asansol, 41. Bolpur, 42. Birbhum

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, parliamentary constituency no. 4 Darjeeling is composed of the following segments from 2009:[2]

• Kalimpong (assembly constituency no. 22)
• Darjeeling (assembly constituency no. 23)
• Kurseong (assembly constituency no. 24)
• Matigara-Naxalbari (SC) (assembly constituency no. 25)
• Siliguri (assembly constituency no. 26)
• Phansidewa (ST) (assembly constituency no. 27)
• Chopra (assembly constituency no. 28)

Election results

General election 2019

Indian General Election 2019: Darjeeling

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Raju Bista	7,50,067	59.19	+16.46
	AITC	Amar Singh Rai	3,36,624	26.56	-1.09
	INC	Sankar Malakar	65,186	5.14	-2.74
	CPI (M)	Saman Pathak	50,524	3.99	-10.64
	Independent	Rajesh Singh	15,973	1.26
	Independent	Nirode Chandra Adhikary	10,719	0.85
	JAP	Harka Bahadur Chhetri	6,495	0.51
	Independent	Digbijay Mandal	4,117	0.32
	Independent	Reseeka Chettri	3,359	0.27
	GRC	Bharat Dong	2,952	0.23
	BSP	Sudip Mandal	2,259	0.18
	Independent	Ajay Dahal	2,199	0.17
	Indian Democratic Republican Front	Christopher Gahatraj	1,678	0.13
	Kamtapur People's Party (United)	Dipak Kumar Roy	1,539	0.12
	RJP	Sunil Pandit	1,505	0.12
	SUCI(C)	Tanmay Dutta	1,449	0.11
	NOTA	None of the Above	10,625	0.84
Majority			4,13,443	32.63	+15.37
Turnout			12,69,666	78.80
	BJP hold		Swing

 2019 Indian general election
West Bengal summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change	Vote percentage	Vote change %
Trinamool Congress	22	12	43.00	4
Bharatiya Janata Party	18	16	40.00	23
Indian National Congress	2	2	6.29	4
Left Front	0	2	7.57	24

Source: Election Results 2019 Note: The vote share may change marginally once the final data is released by Election Commission.

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Darjeeling[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	S. S. Ahluwalia	4,88,257	42.73	-8.77
	AITC	Bhaichung Bhutia	2,91,018	25.47
	CPI (M)	Saman Pathak	1,67,186	14.63	-10.66
	INC	Sujay Ghatak	90,076	7.88	-11.55
	Independent	Mahendra P. Lama	55,767	4.88
	Independent	Rabindra Roy Basunia	6,100	0.53
	BSP	Kakali Majumdar	6,040	0.53
	Independent	Arun Kumar Agarwal	5,449	0.48
	SUCI(C)	Goutam Bhattacharya	3,993	0.35
	RJP	Sunil Pandit	3,043	0.27
	GRC	Nima Lama	2,906	0.25
	BMP	Lalit Singha	2,100	0.18
	Amra Bangalee	Niranjan Saha	2,029	0.18
	NOTA	None of the Above	18,045	1.58	---
Majority			1,97,239	17.26	-8.95
Turnout			11,42,009	80.20	+0.70
	BJP hold		Swing	-8.77

General election 2009

General Election, 2009: Darjeeling[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Jaswant Singh	4,97,649	51.50	+38.67
	CPI (M)	Jibesh Sarkar	2,44,360	25.29	-7.99
	INC	Dawa Narbula	1,87,809	19.43	-25.27
	Independent	Ram Ganesh Baraik	13,236	1.37	+1.37
	BSP	Haridas Thakur	5,083	0.53	-0.68
	Independent	Nitu Jai	4,786	0.50	+0.50
	CPI(ML)L	Abhijit Majumdar	3,818	0.40	0
	Amra Bangalee	Niranjan Saha	3,717	0.38	0
	Independent	Arun Kumar Agarwal	3,227	0.33	0
	IPFB	Baidyanath Roy	2,686	0.28	0
Majority			2,53,289	26.21	+14.79
Turnout			9,66,371	79.50	+8.39
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

General election 2004

General Election, 2004: Darjeeling[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	Dawa Narbula	3,96,973
	CPI (M)	Moni Thapa	2,95,557
	BJP	Dr. G.S. Yonzone	1,13,972
	Independent	Sanjay Thakuri	20,988
	Independent	Mohan Chhetri	14,857
	Independent	Raju Bhatta	11,112
	BSP	Bimal Dutta	10,758
	Amra Bangalee	Kishalay Kanti Sharma	8,695
	Independent	Lalit Barman	8,690
	Independent	Tika Pradhan	6481
Majority			1,01,416
Turnout			8,88,083
	INC gain from CPI (M)		Swing

General elections 1957-2014[1]

Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:

Year	Voter Turnout		Winner			Runners up
	Votes	%age	Candidate	%age	Party	Candidate	%age	Party
1957	769,330	41.67	Theodore Manaen	43.27	Indian National Congress	Ratan Lal Brahman	35.63	Communist Party of India
1962	197,796	46.97	Theodore Manaen	35.03	Indian National Congress	Ratan Lal Brahman	30.57	Communist Party of India
1967	258,528	58.39	M. Basu	39.27	Independent	Theodore Manaen	38.54	Indian National Congress
1971	268.931	53.54	Ratan Lal Brahman	33.19	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	G.S. Gurung	28.36	IGL
1977	2,72,140	43.35	Krishna Bahadur Chhetri	41.81	INC(I)	Ratan Lal Brahman	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)
2009	9,66,371	79.51	Jaswant Singh	51.50	BJP	Jibesh Sarkar	25.29	CPI(M)
2014	11,42,009	80.20	S.S. Ahluwalia	42.75	BJP	Bhaichung Bhutia	25.48	TMC
2019	12,67,270	78.71	Raju Bista	59.19	BJP	Amar Singh Rai	26.56	TMC

See also

• Darjeeling district
• List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha

References

1. "Election Results - Full Statistical Reports". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
2. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.