Elections_in_Sikkim
Elections in Sikkim have been held in the Indian state of Sikkim between 1953 and 1974, before its integration with India, and since 1979 after its integration. The total number of seats in the assembly is 32, including one seat reserved for the Sangha.
General elections
The general elections took place before Sikkim's integration with India.
1953
Main article: 1953 Sikkimese general election
More information Party, Seats ...
Party | Seats | |||||
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Bhutia-Lepcha | Nepali | Total | ||||
Sikkim National Party | 6 | 0 | 6 | |||
Sikkim State Congress | 0 | 6 | 6 | |||
Appointed members | – | – | 6 | |||
Total | 6 | 6 | 18 | |||
Source: [1][2] |
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1958
Main article: 1958 Sikkimese general election
More information Party, Seats ...
Party | Seats | |||||
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Bhutia-Lepcha | Nepali | Others | Total | +/– | ||
Sikkim State Congress | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 | +1 | |
Sikkim National Party | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | |
Independent | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | |
Appointed members | – | – | – | 6 | 0 | |
Total | 6 | 6 | 2 | 20 | +2 | |
Source: [3][2] |
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1967
Main article: 1967 Sikkimese general election
More information Party, Seats ...
Party | Seats | +/– | |
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Sikkim National Congress | 8 | New | |
Sikkim National Party | 5 | –1 | |
Sikkim State Congress | 2 | –5 | |
Others | 3 | +3 | |
Appointed members | 6 | –1 | |
Total | 24 | +4 | |
Source: [4] |
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1970
Main article: 1970 Sikkimese general election
More information Party, Seats ...
Party | Seats | +/– | |
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Sikkim National Party | 8 | +3 | |
Sikkim State Congress | 4 | +2 | |
Sikkim National Congress | 3 | –5 | |
Others | 3 | 0 | |
Appointed members | 6 | 0 | |
Total | 24 | 0 | |
Source: [5] |
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1973
Main article: 1973 Sikkimese general election
More information Party, Seats ...
Party | Seats | +/– | |
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Sikkim National Party | 9 | +1 | |
Sikkim National Congress | 5 | +2 | |
Sikkim Janata Congress | 2 | – | |
Independents | 2 | – | |
Appointed members | 6 | 0 | |
Total | 24 | 0 | |
Source: AC Sinha |
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1974
Main article: 1974 Sikkimese general election
More information Party, Seats ...
Party | Seats | +/– | |
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Sikkim National Congress | 31 | +26 | |
Sikkim National Party | 1 | –8 | |
Total | 32 | +8 | |
Source: Sikkim Assembly |
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Legislative Assembly elections
1979
Main article: 1979 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election
More information Party, Votes ...
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
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Sikkim Janata Parishad | 22,776 | 31.49 | 16 | |
Sikkim Congress (Revolutionary) | 14,889 | 20.58 | 11 | |
Sikkim Prajatantra Congress | 11,400 | 15.76 | 4 | |
Janata Party | 9,534 | 13.18 | 0 | |
Indian National Congress | 1,476 | 2.04 | 0 | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 241 | 0.33 | 0 | |
Sikkim Scheduled Caste League | 85 | 0.12 | 0 | |
Independents | 11,938 | 16.50 | 1 | |
Total | 72,339 | 100.00 | 32 | |
Valid votes | 72,339 | 94.81 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 3,960 | 5.19 | ||
Total votes | 76,299 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 117,157 | 65.13 | ||
Source: ECI |
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1985
Main article: 1985 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election
More information Party, Votes ...
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 60,371 | 62.20 | 30 | +14 | |
Indian National Congress | 23,440 | 24.15 | 1 | +1 | |
Janata Party | 913 | 0.94 | 0 | 0 | |
Sikkim Prajatantra Congress | 438 | 0.45 | 0 | –4 | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 336 | 0.35 | 0 | 0 | |
Communist Party of India | 25 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
Independents | 11,534 | 11.88 | 1 | 0 | |
Total | 97,057 | 100.00 | 32 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 97,057 | 97.61 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 2,378 | 2.39 | |||
Total votes | 99,435 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 155,041 | 64.13 | |||
Source: ECI |
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1989
Main article: 1989 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election
More information Party, Votes ...
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 94,078 | 70.41 | 32 | +2 | |
Indian National Congress | 24,121 | 18.05 | 0 | –1 | |
Rising Sun Party | 11,472 | 8.59 | 0 | New | |
Denzong Peoples Chogpi | 298 | 0.22 | 0 | New | |
Independents | 3,650 | 2.73 | 0 | –1 | |
Total | 133,619 | 100.00 | 32 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 133,619 | 95.97 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 5,608 | 4.03 | |||
Total votes | 139,227 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 192,619 | 72.28 | |||
Source: ECI |
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1994
Main article: 1994 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election
More information Party, Votes ...
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Sikkim Democratic Front | 72,856 | 42.00 | 19 | New | |
Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 60,851 | 35.08 | 10 | –22 | |
Indian National Congress | 26,045 | 15.02 | 2 | +2 | |
Revolutionary Socialist Party | 2,906 | 1.68 | 0 | New | |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 274 | 0.16 | 0 | New | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 270 | 0.16 | 0 | New | |
Independents | 10,255 | 5.91 | 1 | +1 | |
Total | 173,457 | 100.00 | 32 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 173,457 | 97.44 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 4,566 | 2.56 | |||
Total votes | 178,023 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 217,743 | 81.76 | |||
Source: ECI |
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1999
Main article: 1999 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election
More information Party, No. of candidates ...
Party | No. of candidates | No. elected[6] | Votes won | % | |
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Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 2 | 0 | 398 | 0.19% | |
Indian National Congress | 31 | 0 | 7,512 | 3.67% | |
Sikkim Democratic Front | 31 | 24 | 107,214 | 52.32% | |
Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 32 | 7 | 85,827 | 41.88% | |
Independents | 9 | 1 | 3,976 | 1.94% | |
Total: | 105 | 32 | 204,927 | ||
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2004
Main article: 2004 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election
More information Party, No. of candidates ...
Party | No. of candidates | No. of elected[7] | No. of votes |
% |
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Bharatiya Janata Party | 4 | 0 | 667 | 0.34% |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 1 | 0 | 144 | 0.07% |
Indian National Congress | 28 | 1 | 51329 | 26.13% |
Sikkim Democratic Front | 32 | 31 | 139662 | 71.09% |
Sikkim Himali Rajya Parishad | 9 | 0 | 1123 | 0.57% |
Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0.05% |
Independents | 16 | 0 | 3450 | 1.76% |
Total: | 91 | 32 | 196465 |
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2009
Main article: 2009 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election
More information Party, No. of candidates ...
Party | No. of candidates | No. of elected | No. of votes | % | |
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Bharatiya Janata Party | 11 | 0 | 1966 | 0.78% | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 3 | 0 | 272 | 0.11% | |
Indian National Congress | 32 | 0 | 69612 | 27.64% | |
Sikkim Democratic Front | 32 | 32 | 165991 | 65.91% | |
Sikkim Democratic Front | 20 | 0 | 5516 | 2.19% | |
Nationalist Congress Party | 11 | 0 | 1065 | 0.42% | |
Independent | 16 | 0 | 3450 | 1.37% | |
SGPP | 27 | 0 | 2909 | 1.16% | |
SJEP | 6 | 0 | 497 | 0.2% | |
Total: | 167 | 32 | 251851 | ||
Source: Election Commission of India[8] | |||||
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2014
Main article: 2014 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election
More information Political Party, Candidates ...
Political Party | Candidates | Number of Votes |
Seats Won | Net Change in seats |
% of Votes | |
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SDF | 32 | 169983 | 22 | 10 | 55.0% | |
SKM | 32 | 126024 | 10 | 10 | 40.8% | |
INC | 32 | 4390 | 0 | 0 | 1.4% | |
BJP | 13 | 2208 | 0 | 0 | 0.7% | |
AITC | 7 | 586 | 0 | 0 | 0.2% | |
Independent | 5 | 1227 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | |
NOTA | 4460 | - | - | 1.4% | ||
Total | 478,861 | 32 |
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2019
Main article: 2019 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election
More information Party, Contested ...
Party | Contested | Won | +/– | Votes | % | +/– | |
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Sikkim Krantikari Morcha | 32 | 17 | 7 | 1,65,508 | 47.03 | 6.23 | |
Sikkim Democratic Front | 32 | 15 | 7 | 1,67,620 | 47.63 | 7.37 | |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 12 | 0 | 5,700 | 1.62 | 0.92 | ||
Indian National Congress | 24 | 0 | 2,721 | 0.77 | 0.63 | ||
Hamro Sikkim Party | 23 | 0 | 2,098 | 0.60 | |||
Independents | 0 | ||||||
Total | 32 | ||||||
Source: Election Commission of India[10] |
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More information Election year, Vidhan Sabha election ...
Election year | Vidhan Sabha election | 1st party | 2nd party | Others | Total seats | Chief minister | CM's party | |||
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1979 | Second Assembly | SJP 16 | SCR 11 | SPC 4,IND. 1 | 32 | Nar Bahadur Bhandari | SJP | |||
1985 | Third Assembly | SSP 30 | INC 1 | IND 1 | 32 | SSP | ||||
1989 | Fourth Assembly | SSP 32 | 32 | |||||||
1994 | Fifth Assembly | SDF 19 | SSP 10 | INC 2,IND 1 | 32 | Pawan Kumar Chamling | SDF | |||
1999 | Sixth Assembly | SDF 24 | SSP 7 | IND 1 | 32 | |||||
2004 | Seventh Assembly | SDF 31 | INC 1 | 32 | ||||||
2009 | Eighth Assembly | SDF 32 | 32 | |||||||
2014 | Ninth Assembly | SDF 22 | SKM 10 | 32 | ||||||
2019 | Tenth Assembly | SKM 17 | SDF 15 | 32 | Prem Singh Tamang | SKM | ||||
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More information Election, Member ...
Election | Member | Party | |
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1977 | Chhatra Bahadur Chhetri[11] | Indian National Congress | |
1980 | Pahal Man Subba[12] | Sikkim Janata Parishad | |
1984 | Nar Bahadur Bhandari[13] | Independent | |
1985 | Dil Kumari Bhandari | Sikkim Sangram Parishad | |
1989 | Nandu Thapa[14] | ||
1991 | Dil Kumari Bhandari[15] | ||
1996 | Bhim Prasad Dahal[16][17][18] | Sikkim Democratic Front | |
1998 | |||
1999 | |||
2004 | Nakul Das Rai[19] | ||
2009 | Prem Das Rai[20][21] | ||
2014 | |||
2019 | Indra Hang Subba | Sikkim Krantikari Morcha | |
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