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Election history
All the elections held in this constituency are all listed below in a timeline fashion order by year. Start exploring by hitting a cirlce in the middle or click on left/ right wings that would display a panel with all details for that election.
Vidhan Sabha election in 1951 WON by IND party with 48% vote share
Winner: Dalbahadur Singh Gahatraj
CandidatePartyVotes
Dalbahadur Singh Gahatraj IND7,141
T . Mansen INC3,872
Ratanlal Brahman CPI3,849
Lok Sabha election in 1957 WON by INC party with 43% vote share
Winner: T. Manaen
CandidatePartyVotes
T. Manaen INC60,460
Ratanlall Brahmin CPI49,785
Jatindra N. Mitra IND29,484
Vidhan Sabha election in 1957 WON by IND party with 33% vote share
Winner: Deo Prakash Rai
CandidatePartyVotes
Deo Prakash Rai IND4,400
Ananda Prasad CPI4,256
Dalbahadur Singh Gahatraj INC2,836
Mahananda Subba IND773
P. P. Pradhan IND544
Debahadur IND403
Lok Sabha election in 1962 WON by INC party with 35% vote share
Winner: T. Manaen
CandidatePartyVotes
T. Manaen INC66,129
Ratan Lal Brahman CPI57,702
Chandra Kanta Tamang GL46,127
Biraja Mohan Bhattacharjee JS11,730
Ramnath Dubey IND7,070
Vidhan Sabha election in 1962 WON by GL party with 49% vote share
Winner: Deo Prakash Rai
CandidatePartyVotes
Deo Prakash Rai GL9,139
Ananda Prasad Pathak CPI4,619
D. Yonjan INC3,413
Jatig Chandra Rai IND1,183
Tarak Kumar Kashi PSP234
Vidhan Sabha election in 1967 WON by IND party with 51% vote share
Winner: D.Rai
CandidatePartyVotes
D.Rai IND14,281
M.K.Thapa INC9,085
G.L.Subba IND4,621
Lok Sabha election in 1967 WON by IND party with 39% vote share
Winner: M. Basu
CandidatePartyVotes
M. Basu IND97,476
T. Manaen INC95,645
R. K. Sinha CPM42,136
B. M. Bhattacharjee BJS12,942
Vidhan Sabha election in 1969 WON by IGL party with 58% vote share
Winner: Deo Prakash Rai
CandidatePartyVotes
Deo Prakash Rai IGL15,698
Madan Kumar Thapa INC11,519
Vidhan Sabha election in 1971 WON by IGL party with 47% vote share
Winner: Deo Prakash Rai
CandidatePartyVotes
Deo Prakash Rai IGL14,998
Madan Kumar Thapa INC9,133
Rajendra Kumar Sinha CPM8,042
Lok Sabha election in 1971 WON by CPM party with 33% vote share
Winner: Ratanlall Brahman
CandidatePartyVotes
Ratanlall Brahman CPM84,408
Gurung G. S. IGL72,131
Maitreyee Basu IND66,035
Thakur Prasad IND16,946
Amal Kumar Bhattacharya PSP14,793
Vidhan Sabha election in 1972 WON by IGL party with 45% vote share
Winner: Deo Prakash Rai
CandidatePartyVotes
Deo Prakash Rai IGL14,933
G.S. Gurung IND9,476
P.P. Rai INC7,331
Thakur Prasad IND789
Guman Singh Chamling IND403
Vidhan Sabha election in 1977 WON by IND party with 32% vote share
Winner: Deo Prakash Rai
CandidatePartyVotes
Deo Prakash Rai IND12,607
Sangdopal Lepcha CPM8,414
Madan Kumar Thapa IND5,311
P. P. Rai INC5,235
Khaling Nirmal Chandra JNP4,876
Nandalal Gurung IND1,952
Dalbahadur Singh Gahatraj IND590
Santosh Kumar Gurung IGL383
Subhash Ghising IND269
Madan Kumar Rai IND68
Lok Sabha election in 1977 WON by INC party with 42% vote share
Winner: Krishna Bahadur Chettri
Lok Sabha election in 1980 WON by CPM party with 46% vote share
Winner: Ananda Pathak
CandidatePartyVotes
Ananda Pathak CPM185,612
K.B. Chettri INC(I)167,451
Chaudhary Abdul Karim INC(U)20,153
Paul Mantosh JNP(S)8,468
Mohhammed Ekramul Haque JNP8,123
Lakshmi Kanta Joshi IND5,192
Tapan Kumar Biswas IND5,045
Ranendra Nath Barma IND3,960
Sampad Kumar Roy IND1,748
Vidhan Sabha election in 1982 WON by CPM party with 50% vote share
Winner: Dawa Lama
CandidatePartyVotes
Dawa Lama CPM29,165
J. D. S. Rai IND28,856
Lok Sabha election in 1984 WON by CPM party with 42% vote share
Winner: Ananda Prasad Pathak
CandidatePartyVotes
Ananda Prasad Pathak CPM228,679
Dawa Narbula INC227,290
Siddhartha Sankar Ray IND80,557
Padam Bahadur Rai IND5,010
Sampad Roy IND3,441
Vidhan Sabha election in 1987 WON by CPM party with 91% vote share
Winner: Dawa Lama
CandidatePartyVotes
Dawa Lama CPM13,897
P. P. Rai INC1,104
Diamond Muthey IND175
Rajgopal Bhandari IND88
Kishor Guruna IND27
Lok Sabha election in 1989 WON by GNLF party with 56% vote share
Winner: Inderjeet
CandidatePartyVotes
Inderjeet GNLF435,070
Ananda Pathak CPM289,965
Mohan Kumar Rai IND18,843
Krishna Bhakta Poudyal IND9,668
J. D. S. Rai GOL(BG)4,426
Birendra Nath Barman IND3,744
Arun Prasad Sarkar BSP2,452
P. P. Rai IND2,009
Durga Pradhan IND1,534
Kamini Mohan Roy IND1,294
Parbananda Barman IND1,125
Lok Sabha election in 1991 WON by INC party with 48% vote share
Winner: Inder Jeet
CandidatePartyVotes
Inder Jeet INC354,645
Ananda Pathak CPM302,748
Ankesh Acharjya BJP54,969
Premjit Singha IND8,270
Krishna Bhakta Poudyal IND7,864
Altaf Hussain IND3,385
Arun Prasad Sarker BSP1,942
Kamini Mohan Roy JNP1,746
Saty Prasad LKD1,342
Banshidhar Mital IND864
Vidhan Sabha election in 1991 WON by IND party with 55% vote share
Winner: Narendra Kumai
CandidatePartyVotes
Narendra Kumai IND47,722
J. D. S. Rai ABGL35,489
D. P. Chhetri BJP2,592
Surja Narayan Pradhan IND1,743
Vidhan Sabha election in 1996 WON by GNLF party with 51% vote share
Winner: Nar Bahadur Chettri
CandidatePartyVotes
Nar Bahadur Chettri GNLF51,501
Kamala Sanskrityayana CPM26,034
Madan Kumar Rai (Bantawa) ABGL18,503
Prahlad Prasad Gupta BJP2,602
Raja Rai AIIC(T)1,181
Pramod Tamang IND680
Bhutia Pema Tshering Lama IND386
Ahmad Mansur MUL316
Lok Sabha election in 1996 WON by CPM party with 46% vote share
Winner: R B Rai
CandidatePartyVotes
R B Rai CPM357,291
K B Chettri INC280,167
Geeta Chatterjee BJP68,421
Gazendra Gurung IND29,499
Krishna Bhakta Pourel IND16,511
Usmani Mustak IND14,432
Kamini Mohan Roy IND7,474
Purnendu Chatterjee IND2,359
Mohammad Zamil Ahamad MUL2,095
Lok Sabha election in 1998 WON by CPM party with 45% vote share
Winner: Ananda Pathak
CandidatePartyVotes
Ananda Pathak CPM280,589
Prasanta Nandy INC158,033
Dawa Nurbula WBTC114,688
R B Rai IND51,681
Paresh Ray IND12,609
Surjit Rasaily BSP3,727
L B Pariyar IND3,048
Matiur Rahman IND2,594
Lok Sabha election in 1999 WON by CPM party with 44% vote share
Winner: S.P. Lepcha
CandidatePartyVotes
S.P. Lepcha CPM256,826
Nar Bahadur Khatiwara INC144,857
Tarun Roy AITC127,603
R.B.Rai IND31,719
Sunil Roy IND11,797
Krishna Bhakta Paurel IND5,118
Sampad Roy IND2,551
Vidhan Sabha election in 2001 WON by GNLF party with 63% vote share
Winner: D.K. Pradhan
CandidatePartyVotes
D.K. Pradhan GNLF66,839
Sawan Rai IND21,576
K.B.Watter CPM9,694
Parvati Pradhan INC4,445
Kishore Chandra Rai BJP2,723
Lok Sabha election in 2004 WON by INC party with 45% vote share
Winner: Dawa Narbula
CandidatePartyVotes
Dawa Narbula INC396,973
Moni Thapa CPM295,557
G. S. Yonzone BJP113,972
Sanjay Thakuri IND20,988
Mohan Chhetri IND14,857
Raju Bhatta IND11,112
Bimal Dutta BSP10,758
Kishalay Kanti Sharma IND8,695
Lalit Barman IND8,690
Tika Pradhan IND6,481
Vidhan Sabha election in 2006 WON by GNLF party with 53% vote share
Winner: Pranay Rai
CandidatePartyVotes
Pranay Rai GNLF58,646
Amar Lama IND36,636
K. B. Wattar CPI(M)12,755
Gopal Singh Chhetri AITC2,673
Lok Sabha election in 2009 WON by BJP party with 51% vote share
Winner: Jaswant Singh
CandidatePartyVotes
Jaswant Singh BJP497,649
Jibesh Sarkar CPM244,360
Dawa Narbula INC187,809
Ram Ganesh Baraik IND13,236
Haridas Thakur BSP5,083
Nitu Jai IND4,786
Abhijit Majumdar CPI(ML)(L)3,818
Niranjan Saha AMB3,717
Arun Kumar Agarwal IND3,227
Baidyanath Roy IPFB2,686
Vidhan Sabha election in 2011 WON by GOJAM party with 79% vote share
Winner: Trilok Kumar Dewan
CandidatePartyVotes
Trilok Kumar Dewan GOJAM120,532
Bim Subba GNLF13,977
Bharati Tamang ABGL11,198
K.B. Wattar CPM5,353
Nahakul Chandra INC2,463
Lok Sabha election in 2014 WON by BJP party with 43% vote share
Winner: S.S.Ahluwalia
CandidatePartyVotes
S.S.Ahluwalia BJP488,257
Bhai Chung Bhutia AITC291,018
Saman Pathak (Suraj) CPM167,186
Sujay Ghatak INC90,076
Mahendra P. Lama IND55,767
None Of The Above NOTA18,045
Rabindra Roy Basunia IND6,100
Kakali Majumdar (Roy) BSP6,040
Arun Kumar Agarwal IND5,449
Goutam Bhattacharya SUCI3,993
Sunil Pandit RJNP3,043
Nima Lama grac2,906
Lalit Singha BMUP2,100
Niranjan Saha AMB2,029
Vidhan Sabha election in 2016 WON by GOJAM party with 60% vote share
Winner: Amar Singh Rai
CandidatePartyVotes
Amar Singh Rai GOJAM95,386
Sarda Rai Subba AITC45,473
Govind Chettri IND8,982
None Of The Above NOTA5,817
Ashok Kumar Lepcha GRAC3,716
Lok Sabha election in 2019 WON by BJP party with 59% vote share
Winner: Raju Bista
CandidatePartyVotes
Raju Bista BJP750,067
Amar Singh Rai AITC336,624
Sankar Malakar INC65,186
Saman Pathak CPM50,524
Rajesh Singh IND15,973
Nirode Chandra Adhikary IND10,719
Nota NOTA10,625
Harka Bahadur Chhetri AIJAP6,495
Digbijay Mandal IND4,117
Reseeka Chettri IND3,359
Bharat Dong grac2,952
Sudip Mandal BSP2,259
Ajay Dahal IND2,199
Christopher Gahatraj IDRP1,678
Dipak Kumar Roy KPPU1,539
Sunil Pandit RJNP1,505
Tanmay Dutta SUCI(C)1,449
Vidhan Sabha election in 2021 WON by BJP party with 41% vote share
Winner: Neeraj Tamang Zimba
CandidatePartyVotes
Neeraj Tamang Zimba BJP68,907
Keshav Raj Sharma IND47,631
Pemba Tshering IND38,240
Suraj Gurung IND2,855
Nota NOTA2,540
Nima Gyamtsho Sherpa IND2,088
Gautam Raj Rai CPI(M)1,913
Anjani Sharma IND1,677
Milan Thokar IND1,397
Bharat Prakash Rai IND1,327