Darjeeling Lok Sabha constituency

Darjeeling
WB-4
Darjeeling ; WB-4
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Kalimpong; Darjeeling; Kurseong; Matigara-Naxalbari; Siliguri; Phansidewa; Chopra
Established	1957-present
Total electors	1,437,126
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
	18th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Raju Bista
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

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.

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:^[1]

#	Name	District	Member
22	Kalimpong	Kalimpong	Ruden Sada Lepcha	BGPM	BJP
23	Darjeeling	Darjeeling	Neeraj Zimba	BJP	BJP
24	Kurseong		Bishnu Prasad Sharma	BJP	BJP
25	Matigara-Naxalbari (SC)		Anandamoy Barman	BJP	BJP
26	Siliguri		Sankar Ghosh	BJP	BJP
27	Phansidewa (ST)		Durga Murmu	BJP	BJP
28	Chopra	Uttar Dinajpur	Hamidul Rahman	TMC	TMC

Members of Parliament

Year	Name^[2]
1957	Theodore Manaen	Indian National Congress
1962	Theodore Manaen	Indian National Congress
1967	Maitreyee Basu	Independent
1971	Ratanlal Brahmin	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1977	Krishna Bahadur Chhetri	Indian National Congress
1980	Ananda Pathak	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1984	Ananda Pathak	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1989	Inderjeet	Gorkha National Liberation Front
1991	Inderjeet	Indian National Congress
1996	Ratna Bahadur Rai	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1998	Ananda Pathak
1999	S. P. Lepcha
2004	Dawa Narbula	Indian National Congress
2009	Jaswant Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
2014	S. S. Ahluwalia
2019	Raju Bista
2024	Raju Bista

Election results

General election 2024

2024 Indian general election: Darjeeling
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Raju Bista	679,331	51.18	8.01
	AITC	Gopal Lama	5,00,806	37.73	11.17
	INC	Munish Tamang	83,374	6.28	1.14
	Independent	Bandana Rai	13,674	1.03
	Independent	Bishnu Prasad Sharma	7,447	0.56
	Independent	Bhupendra Lepcha	6,395	0.48
	Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Party	Atasi Biswas	4,641	0.35
	API	Pradhan Mardi	2,747	0.21
	AMB	Khushi Ranjan Mandal	2,337	0.18
	Independent	Kalicharan Barman	2,079	0.16
	North Bengal People’s Party	Qamrul Haque	1,853	0.14
	Kamatapur People’s Party (United)	Budharu Roy	1,762	0.13
	SUCI(C)	Shahriar Alam	1,614	0.12
	GRC	Subodh Pakhrin	1,331	0.10
	NOTA	None of the above	18,021	1.36
Majority			1,78,525
Turnout				74.76	4.04
	BJP hold		Swing

General election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Darjeeling
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Raju Bista	750,067	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

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Darjeeling^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	S. S. Ahluwalia	488,257	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
	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^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Jaswant Singh	497,649	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
	AMB	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^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Dawa Narbula	396,973	44.7
	CPI(M)	Moni Thapa	2,95,557	33.28
	BJP	Dr. G.S. Yonzone	1,13,972	12.83
	Independent	Sanjay Thakuri	20,988	2.36
	Independent	Mohan Chhetri	14,857	1.67
	Independent	Raju Bhatta	11,112	1.25
	BSP	Bimal Dutta	10,758	1.21
	AMB	Kishalay Kanti Sharma	8,695	0.98
	Independent	Lalit Barman	8,690	0.97
	Independent	Tika Pradhan	6481	0.73
Majority			1,01,416	11.42
Turnout			8,88,083
	INC gain from CPI(M)		Swing

General elections 1957-2014

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

Year^[3]	Voter Turnout		Winner			Runners up
Year^[3]	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

References

^ "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
^ "Darjeeling Parliamentary Constituency, Winning MP and Party Name". www.elections.in.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Election Results - Full Statistical Reports". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 19 April 2019.

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[delimitation-1] "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.

[2] "Darjeeling Parliamentary Constituency, Winning MP and Party Name". www.elections.in.

[DarjLokSabha-3] "Election Results - Full Statistical Reports". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 19 April 2019.

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