# 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.

## Assembly segments

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:
| No | Name | District | Member | Party | 2024 Lead |
| 22 | Kalimpong | Kalimpong | Ruden Sada Lepcha | Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 23 | Darjeeling | Darjeeling | Neeraj Zimba | Bharatiya Janata Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 24 | Kurseong | Darjeeling | Bishnu Prasad Sharma | Bharatiya Janata Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 25 | Matigara-Naxalbari (SC) | Darjeeling | Anandamoy Barman | Bharatiya Janata Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 26 | Siliguri | Darjeeling | Sankar Ghosh | Bharatiya Janata Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 27 | Phansidewa (ST) | Darjeeling | Durga Murmu | Bharatiya Janata Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 28 | Chopra | Uttar Dinajpur | Hamidul Rahman | Trinamool Congress | Trinamool Congress |

## Members of Parliament

| Year | Name | Party |
| 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 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 1999 | S. P. Lepcha | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 2004 | Dawa Narbula | Indian National Congress |
| 2009 | Jaswant Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2014 | S. S. Ahluwalia | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2019 | Raju Bista | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 2024 | Raju Bista | Bharatiya Janata Party |

## Election results
### General election 2024

2024 Indian general election: Darjeeling :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 1,78,525 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 74.76 | 4.04 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | | |

### General election 2019

2019 Indian general elections: Darjeeling :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 4,13,443 | 32.63 | +15.37 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 12,69,666 | 78.80 | |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | | |

### General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Darjeeling :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 1,97,239 | 17.26 | −8.95 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 11,42,009 | 80.20 | +0.70 |
| | BJP hold | BJP hold | Swing | -8.77 | |

### General election 2009

General Election, 2009: Darjeeling :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 2,53,289 | 26.21 | +14.79 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 9,66,371 | 79.50 | +8.39 |
| | BJP gain from INC | BJP gain from INC | Swing | | |

### General election 2004

General Election, 2004: Darjeeling :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | 1,01,416 | 11.42 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 8,88,083 | |
| | INC gain from CPI(M) | 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 | Voter Turnout | Voter Turnout | Winner | Winner | Winner | Runners up | Runners up | Runners up |
| Year | 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 |