Sikkim #1GEN

SIKKIM · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Bhim Prasad Dahal

SDF Sikkim Democratic Front

Margin

82,043 46.2 pp

votes

over Nar Bahadur Bhandari (SSP)

The contest

7 candidate rows

Electors2,29,160

Votes polled1,77,440

Turnout77.4%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors1.2 L52.3% of electorate

Female electors1.09 L47.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 914females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

7 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Bhim Prasad Dahal	SDF	1,24,218	70.00%
2	Nar Bahadur Bhandari	SSP	42,175	23.80%
3	Nandalal Gurung	IND	4,263	2.40%
4	Dhan Bahadur Tamang	IND	436	0.20%
5	Krishna Chandra Pradhan	IND	421	0.20%
6	Nabin Chandra Subba	IND	410	0.20%
7	Bhagwan Prasad	IND	251	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 5,266, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 172,174 · NOTA n/a · published 177,440 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996