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Darjeeling #4GEN
Won
Krishna Bahadur Chettri
INC Indian National CongressMargin
18,480 6.8 pp
votes
over Ratanlal Brahman (CPIM)
The contest
Electors6,24,898
Votes polled2,72,135
Turnout43.6%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors3.49 L55.9% of electorate
Female electors2.76 L44.1% of electorate
Sex ratio
789females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Krishna Bahadur Chettri | INC | 1,09,520 | 40.20% | |
| 2 | Ratanlal Brahman | CPIM | 91,040 | 33.50% | |
| 3 | Madan Kumar Rai | IND | 32,835 | 12.10% | |
| 4 | Amar Prakash Dimmal | AIGL | 12,509 | 4.60% | |
| 5 | Dharma Shamsher Basnet | IND | 4,306 | 1.60% | |
| 6 | Janaklal Agarwal | IND | 4,098 | 1.50% | |
| 7 | Bhattacherjee Brijamohan | IND | 3,984 | 1.50% | |
| 8 | Dalbahadur Singh Gahatraj | IND | 1,925 | 0.70% | |
| 9 | Thakur Prasad | IND | 1,109 | 0.40% | |
| 10 | Ruth Karthak Lepchani | IND | 627 | 0.20% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 10,182, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 261,953 · NOTA n/a · published 272,135 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977
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- 2026-09-13